Confashional
Confashional is a visual and interactive experience where salvation from fashion guilt is served in sacred, ritualistic doses. This immersive installation is part performance, part sacred space, dedicated to confronting the fashion waste crisis on the Sunshine Coast.
Step inside the confashion booth – crafted from waste and discarded clothes – and confess your fashion sins. What’s your guilty pleasure? That unworn dress still hanging in your closet? The fast fashion impulse buy? No judgment here. Instead, receive a creative response that encourages reflection, redemption, and, most importantly, revolution.
Surrounded by mountains of fashion waste, you’ll experience a visual sermon on the true cost of consumerism. Prepare for a mildly overwhelming, yet strangely joyful exploration of the fashion waste epidemic, with a side of humour, reflection, and perhaps even a call to action. Confashional is a place to confront, reflect, and maybe – just maybe – find a little peace in your fashion choices.
Repent. Reflect. Rewear.
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About the Urban Gallery
This work is part of the Festival Precinct, where we invite you to wander and wonder through our Urban Gallery every day of Horizon 2025.
Situated in Ocean St, Maroochydore (Kabi Kabi Country), you’ll find a diverse collection of works nestled into streets, laneways and Big Top Shopping Centre — blurring the lines between physical, artistic and digital realms.
Suitable for all ages, this free-to-enjoy 10-day art-trail will feature inspiring work from visionary Queensland and Australian contemporary artists, including First Nations artists.
Creative Team
- Lead Artists – Shaye Hardisty and Ketakii Jewson-Brown
- Writer – Lee Hardisty
- Production support – Aimee and Mark Grey of Kerbside Collective
ShayeKet
Ketakii Jewson-Brown and Shaye Hardisty, the creative duo ShayeKet, are passionate advocates for sustainability in fashion. Their work blends photography, textiles, and installation to explore fashion waste, ethical practices, and community engagement. Known for their playful yet thought-provoking approach, they highlight fast fashion’s impact while promoting mending, rewearing, and repurposing. Their projects include The Sunshine Coat Project (2023), the most attended exhibition at The Old Ambulance Station Gallery, and Keep the Women Busy So They Don’t Get Too Angry, exploring gender roles. ShayeKet continues to create bold, conversation-starting works that inspire creativity and positive change.
Kerbside Collective
Kerbside is a sustainability-led creative studio integrating research, consultancy, and artistic projects. With a focus on heritage, public space, and the environment, our work champions creativity, engagement, and forward-thinking responses to the climate emergency.
Our approach embraces the radical, the long-term, and the imaginative through a global lens. We collaborate with cultural organizations, municipalities, and companies across the public and private sectors, bringing our unique perspective to every project. By blending art, research, and strategy, we foster meaningful change and inspire dynamic solutions for a more sustainable future
Acknowledgements
Confashional was commissioned for Horizon 2025 through Sunshine Coast Council's MadeSC program and presented as part of the Festival Precinct Urban Gallery supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Big Top Shopping Centre.
The development of this work was supported by Sunshine Coast Councils's MadeSC program and the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), a partnership between Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Also supported by The Sunshine Coast Art Foundation's GIFTED program and Fast Fashun.
Confashional is an immersive installation located indoors within a vacant shopfront. This event includes performance, visual and interactive elements.
Audience members can choose the duration of their experience and choose the level of interaction.
Seating is not provided, however there is seating nearby. Refreshments are also available for purchase within the centre.
This experience is suitable for all ages and abilities.
If you are travelling by car there is free, three-hour parking available at the Big Top Shopping Centre carpark located on Ocean Street. Parking is limited, we advise you use alternative transport, carpool or park and walk.
Solbar is within easy walking distance of the Maroochydore Station Bus Interchange. Plan your journey to festival from the Translink Website.
Car Parking is limited on Ocean Street so ride your bike to the Duporth Ave bike parking hub. You can lock your bike in the Council facility that has 24hr security cameras active.
Wheelchair Accessibility
This event is wheelchair accessible.
Level Access
This event will take place in a public place on Ocean St, Maroochydore, where there is level access.
Bathroom Access
This event takes place in a public space. The closest public facilities are available inside the Big Top Shopping Centre, Solbar, Old Soul and other open restaurants along Ocean Street.
Any other access requirements
We welcome all audiences to Horizon and strive to make every event and performance as accessible as possible.
We are always open to discussing your individual requirements to assist wherever possible. If you’d like to speak to someone about your access requirements, please contact us during business hours at (07) 5475 7272 or [email protected].