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.

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 

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.