2014 The Great Pearl Tragedy POSTER

The Great Pearl Tragedy is the first installment of the Bella Trilogy.
The Poster was produced to advertise the upcoming Worn Art Revamped show featuring Wearable Art pieces on display and in movement.
This is the first show of a newly formatted Worn Art event. The previous writer and director of the Worn Art events "Gwen Knox" retired and passed the baton on to her protegee "Lesley Marsh" who then created a storyline from old Broome tales and stories. This resulted in the "Bella Trilogy" a series of shows with a continuing storyline based in the Pearling hey-days of Broome. The storyline was perfect to showcase themed costumes which included scenes of old time Cable Beach races, gambling houses, drinking houses, opium dens and the many bars and pubs found in Chinatown when the luggers came in after a pearling trip. Money, alcohol, gambling, substances and women were plentiful.