It's Archival Run-a-ways. Archival Runaways started with one curator’s bizarre delusion: that archival material and artworks—kept under lock and key in climate-controlled vaults or dusty storerooms—are desperate to escape and be seen.
In the Archival Runaways universe artworks and artefacts belong in the chaos of every day real life, on streets, on minds, in conversations, not imprisoned, labelled and locked away. Archival Runaways gives those overlooked, red flagged, underappreciated objects the breakout they deserve.
By purchasing and wearing an Archival Runaways garment you liberate collections that get buried in institutional protocol and lack of funding, letting their stories run wild in the real every day world with style.
The curator and designer behind Archival Runaways is Ellen Hewitt. You can find her on Instagram as @misselllen
