Artists and designers in residence
Artists and designers in residence
Find out what happens behind the scenes of the V&A's Museum Residency Programme which brings together designers, artists, makers, musicians, writers and all kinds of artists in the creative industries collaborate with V&A's world-class resources, including the extensive collections, curatorial and conservation expertise, practical art, design and digital media workshops and experienced educational and outreach staff, to create exciting new projects, research and events for Museum audiences.Discussions collected here come from a rich and diverse number of individual practitioners.
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 17:29
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I’ll be in Birmingham this weekend running a drop in workshop for families as part of the Taking Time programme of events (see post below).
Each living thing has specific individual characteristics and qualities of form, colour and texture. Here, ash stalks.
We will be working with these and other natural found marks from fields, woods and heath to explore rhythm and pattern....
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 16:19
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Calculus
2009
2 x 3 m
natural stone on gesso
(photo credit: John Coombes)
Calculus
“…To see a World in a Grain of Sand…” William Blake
I wanted to take something tiny & insignificant; very small stones unnoticed underfoot on a beach, out of context… and through repetition and scale of work, subject the viewer to be made small in their presence.
Each tiny...
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 13:53
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The artists of Northeast Arnhem Land are famous for the quality of their fine bark paintings. In my search to find images on the Yirrkala.com website I kept being drawn to the hauntingly beautiful work of Gulumbu Yunupingu.
Her painting is actually atypical in that the compositions lack any figurative element and I think it is perhaps in this abstract quality, where the mind is untethered...
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 00:00
The first version of Janus has now been fired, glazed, and decorated with a variety of ceramic prints (florals, patterns, text and imagery) and happily the pieces do fit together as planned. I’ve used my existing stock of prints for this piece, but will now take another pressing, to be decorated with more site-specific prints taken from the V&A collections...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 17:56
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Of Time ‐ Place ‐ History ‐ Geography ‐ Geology ‐ Life ‐ Links ‐ Web Community ‐ Commerce ... and Art So. Eastern Arnhem Land. I carried on zooming over the map, compelled to explore deeper. Flying as the girl in my childhood dreams, above the red earth tracks and trails, ridges and bluffs, inlets and promontories of this ancient land. And then a few miles to the west of Nhulunbuy, among the...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:56
This panel just about sums it up:
How right you are, dear Badger.
After a lot of weeding out of random drawings and rude sketches, the comic began to take shape into something narrative, if very bizarre. Now it has reached a length where it covers all of the boards, giving a pleasing effect of completeness. Of course, people are still welcome to add panels, the...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:36
For a simple mini-project, I wanted to be able to answer the simple question "So, what do you do?" using a short comic strip which I could then emblazon onto t-shirts or other garments.
The strip I came up with follows a long history of rebuses - images to take the place of words or syllables to contain a hidden meaning. For example see this hanging "The Shepheard Buss"...
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 12:50
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There has been a wealth of really interesting World Beach submissions recently… including a small cluster from a remote region in Northeast Arnhem Land at the top end of Australia. I wonder did they hear the Radio Australia broadcast? I don’t know.
I find maps generally, supremely engrossing and the World Beach map particularly so. Each entry stimulates a strong desire to zoom in to...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 00:00
The 22 pieces of ‘Janus’ have been press-moulded and then randomly coated with a variety of coloured slips, to begin to create the dis-jointed, collaged quality that I’m after. I’ve decided to fast-track this first pressing, to test whether or not the pieces will fit together successfully.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 00:00
This week I’m running lunchtime workshops, demonstrating figure and animal modelling to schoolchildren during half-term week. The children are enthralled, and enjoy choosing which animals I should put together from the modelled parts. I am shocked at how many parents say that their children don’t get the chance to handle clay at primary school.
The plaster casting of Janus...