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.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 15:54
Time has passed by since my last posting. The weeks have been filled with activities of a different kind – with a different focus. A move from private to public domain. In the months that I spent developing the drawings, time often seemed to be suspended as I attempted to resolve a range of issues in the work. Now things are moving at a different pace as I attempt to understand connections...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 13:39
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Just over a year ago, I ran a tapestry course in the V&A’s Studio.
Have been asked to run another one in September and this time we will have three full days to experiment and develop ideas.
Last year, Douglas Robertson, an artist working in and around the islands of NW Scotland, used the course to extend his technical vocabulary (pages from his sketchbook above). A selection of the...
Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 14:04
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Touch - that most primal of senses - is at the core of any artist’s sensibilities who works with stuff. Individual mark of hand is offered through the artist’s touch of material ‐ perhaps an ever precious factor in our increasingly technological and virtual world.
“We touch things to assure ourselves of reality.
We touch the objects of our love.
We touch the things we...
Friday, March 30, 2007 - 11:40
Some thoughts and responses to the installation of residency drawings and selected objects:
As part of the 'stepping back' process in order consider the installed works, I thought that I would ask some of the curators and conservators at the V&A for their thoughts. No single response to a work of art can be identical to another as we each carry with us our own individual life histories and...
Friday, March 30, 2007 - 10:51
With the installation of my new work and the objects that I had selected from the collections now completed, I can take a step back.
The series of drawings, 'Gaze', that I have been concentrating on over several months, were made especially in response to the space in which they are now being shown. They hang suspended in mid-air within a line of wall-based glazed cases. The cases themselves act...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 01:30
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I have long intended to write about Audrey Walker.   Â
A senior figure in the textile community of this country, Audrey is someone for whom I hold deep respect. I have enjoyed her work and read much of her writing but have only in the last few years had opportunity for conversation.
I realise now that Audrey is as modest in words as she is down to earth in her writing. In both, she is...
Friday, March 9, 2007 - 13:02
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It has been an exciting time for Contemporary Textiles at the V&A with two new fabulous pieces acquired for the collection from COLLECT 2007.
The first, a woven tapestry by Jo Barker (represented by The Scottish Gallery).
Dappled Circle - Scarlet
2007
45 x 84cm
Cotton warp (12 w.p.i.), wool, linen, cotton & embroidery thread.
'The new piece Dappled Circle - Scarlet, woven for C0LLECT...
Thursday, March 8, 2007 - 23:52
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Back in September I wrote about filming in Devon with BBC Education for a four week series, 'Seasonal Snapshots'. Spring - the first programme, went out today.
My day's filming will have been edited to just a few minutes and is to be broadcast within the next episode.
Seasonal Snapshots: Summer. Thursday 15 March 11.30 am BBC 2... Better be watching!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 09:33
There is a certain deceit in a reflected image – a reflection in a mirror gives us the idea that we are seeing a truthful likeness. But of course we are party to this conspiracy ourselves, knowing it not to be the case. And the mirror gives a sense of depth that again we allow ourselves to be taken in by, the surface of the glass being impenetrable and unyielding.
The Claude glass or black...
Monday, February 19, 2007 - 10:28
Touch and time. Everything seems to take on a different timescale when one is drawing, thinking, touching the surface of the drawing again. Sitting and looking. Waiting.
Looking through objects in the collections has taken on a similar pace. Time slows down in order to examine them at such close hand - to register the hidden folds of a pattern or the soiled edges of a greeting card.
Yet the...