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, February 22, 2008 - 16:45
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One of the greatest pluses of a project such as Cloth & Culture Now is getting to meet the artists. From Finland, Japan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,UK; 31 of the total of 35 of us made it to the opening weekend. From formal lectures to conversations over the cornflakes, we learnt of each other’s cultures and practice. The creative connections that might join us around the globe felt a...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 15:36
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Cities, streets, houses â?? how do we make them home?
Often by ornamenting them. If we look closely we may find these places are layered with meaning and memory because of their patterning.
Textile patterns have travelled between South Asia and Britain from the seventeenth century to our own day. Do these voyages change the patterns as cargoes of meaning and memory? Does their arrival subtly...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - 13:31
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I have never been good at keeping a diary.
The thick ‐ lockable - keep all your secrets safe ‐ pour your heart out tomes of pre-pubescence, never made it past the first few days.
Even now at the beginning of a potentially good trip away, the well intentioned - document everything excitement attached to favourite pen and a new, velvety Moleskine soon deteriorates into incoherent...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 15:06
Amongst the thousands of books and albums held by the V&A, I have discovered that there is one in particular that I have been searching for. “The True and Perfect Description of Three Voyages, so Strange and Wonderful That the Like Hath Never Been Heard of Before,” was written at the end of the 16th century and relates three attempts by Dutch explorers to reach China via the North East...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 09:37
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The idea for the World Beach Project arrived in my head fully formed and in an instant. It popped up by way of responding to the response to my work using small stones, which in its turn, is a response to the land ‐ specifically, rock.
Whether a line of quartz splitting a rock face or a huge folded mountain range, the structure of rock talks of the structure of our planet. It is like a map...
Monday, November 26, 2007 - 13:00
The temporary refuge as a metaphor for the fragility of the human condition. I seem to keep returning to this idea in my work – during the 1990s I explored cocoon and hive forms and, more recently, the 18th century Japanese paper folding teahouses that I have mentioned in previous entries. So an appropriate starting point for the second phase of my residency period seems to be Herbert George...
Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 14:43
Another outcome of the residency so far is that three works from my installation in Gallery 102 earlier this year are now held by the Word and Image Department. (This is in addition to the works already in the collection: " Small Soundpiece," 1999; "Seal," a limited print from a residency at Grizedale Arts in 1999 and one work which is included in a portfolio of drawings, "40 Artists – 40...
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 17:05
A pause, not a full stop – the residency period was due to end after my last posting. However following a number of discussions and meetings, I received an invitation from the Word and Image Department and the Paper Conservation Studio to continue working on the residency until the end of 2008.
A wonderful opportunity and second phase of the journey! There are certain ideas that I now want to...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 11:20
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Sometimes the creativity is in the discovery, the isolating.
Tiny rocky cove. Clamber or swim to. Bit secret.
Hours, days months before... who knows... the head had been found.
Most likely lying at a strange angle amongst the jumble of boulders.
Carefully placed to catch the light.
Perched, watching. Waiting to be noticed by another.
In a different time frame. Stumbling upon it, unsuspecting....
Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 10:31
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Guest post by V&A blog administrator.
We are very pleased to announce that the World Beach Project webpages are now live on the V&A website and we have received our first contributions including one from North America and one from continental Europe. We have been getting very excited about this idea ever since Sue first proposed it to us, we hope you will enjoy using it, looking at other...