Joanne Tatham
& TOM O'SULLIVAN
FOR LA FETICHE AW20

For AW20 LA FETICHE collaborated with Artists JOANNE TATHAM & TOM O'SULLIVAN, using text patches and their recognisable cat motif throughout the collection.

Above the CLAUDE hand knit sweater has been patched with a knitted CAT motif and ‘A petition for an enquiry into a condition of anxiety’ text patch.

^{Model Suzie Bird wearing the CLAUDE handknit
Photo Sonia Sieff
Credits Rue Sainte-Marthe 75010 Paris, France}

^{Model Suzie Bird wearing the SARAH vest with artist patch
Photo Sonia Sieff
Credits Rue Sainte-Marthe 75010 Paris, France}

^{AW20 AUDREY and BEAUVOIR sweaters layered over each other
Photo Sonia Sieff
Credits Rue Sainte-Marthe 75010 Paris, France}

^{AW20 DONNA shirt with artist patch}

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan began working together whilst completing the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art, exhibiting their first collaborative work at Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery in 1995. Their recent commissions include an artists’ novella published by Book Works, a publicly sited artwork with Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and a collection of watches with Swatch. During the 25 years of their collaboration they have exhibited widely, including at BALTIC, Gateshead (2018), Coachella (2017), Cricoteka, Krakow (2014), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2008), Tate Britain (2006) and in 2005 they represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale. They lived in Glasgow for nearly 20 years, with Tom now living in Newcastle upon Tyne and Joanne in London. 

^{Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, Installation view ‘A petition for an enquiry into a condition of anxiety’,
The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
Images courtesy of the Artists and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photography: Max Slaven}

^{Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, Installation view ‘A petition for an enquiry into a condition of anxiety’,
The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
Images courtesy of the Artists and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photography: Max Slaven}

^{Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, Installation view ‘A petition for an enquiry into a condition of anxiety’,
The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
Images courtesy of the Artists and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photography: Max Slaven}

^{Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, Installation view, ‘The indirect exchange of uncertain value’,
A Collective off-site project at Fettes College, Edinburgh, 2011
Images courtesy of the Artists and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photography: Ruth Clark}