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.
Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 16:38
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COLOUR, drawing using natural stone marks, 1m x 1m.
Into February, into better light levels and this stonework (Dec 15) is now complete and about to go off to the framer. COLOUR will hang with two other metre square stone drawings in the new Haymarket Hotel. And in the middle of March, I + team will be reinstalling ORDER, permanently, in the hotel’s foyer.
I often choose to draw in...
Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 15:24
Cut, incise, prick, singe, burn – I have been revisiting ways in which the surface of a sheet of paper can be pierced and how this itself can be integral to the drawing process. Piercing allows light to pass through from one side of a drawing to the other. It can both interrupt and disturb its surface. It hovers somewhere between creativity and damage. A form of scarification. Repetitious...
Friday, February 9, 2007 - 16:40
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Over the last few weeks we have begun to chisel away at plans for World Beach ‐ The Stone Drawing Project open to anyone, anywhere on this planet.
You will be invited to make a stone drawing on a beach, photograph it (before the tide washes it away) and contribute the designs to a virtual world gallery held here on the V&A’s website. It is scheduled to be up and running sometime...
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 12:59
'Polarities of dark and light. Eye of the ocean, the light we see….' – These words were written to introduce a series of my works shown at Inverleith House, Edinburgh in 1995 - works that explored the ethereal qualities of salt and clear water pools lying along the Coromandel Coast of Southern India.
Over ten years later I find myself looking again and again into another kind of pool – not the...
Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 02:50
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On each visit to the V&A, I find myself growing ever fonder of the new garden space.
It was being transformed back in 2005, around the time I was sorting all the tiny stones for the 'Order' installation. As a continuous line of builders carried individual lumps of rock past my window, I wondered how it could ever be finished.
But only weeks later, basking in the warmth of a summer evening...
Monday, January 8, 2007 - 02:24
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We could think it is the institutions that shape us: the particular school, art college, museum or gallery collaboration. But if I look back, it is specific individuals within those institutions who are the crux of the experience. Whom we meet (and whom we don’t meet) can turn out to have a profound impact on the course of our life.
I have spoken of Unn Sonju many times, but not here. Time...
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 - 11:51
Boarding a train bound for Shiroko, I was thinking about Harry Parkes. It was late April and this was one of several journeys that I made to different parts of rural Japan earlier this year in order to see some extraordinary processes connected with handmade paper – processes which radically change the physicality of paper, some which render it waterproof, others which leave it soft and malleable...
Friday, December 22, 2006 - 15:07
I have realised that being lost is not always such a bad thing. A Mexican artist told me recently that when her children were small, for a family day-out, she would deliberately drive down unknown city streets in order to just become lost – and by doing so find something new to enjoy or somewhere new to discover.
I have already mentioned about being lost in the miles of corridors of the Museum...
Friday, December 15, 2006 - 16:56
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…. and counting.
I can almost physically feel the inner core of my being shrinking in tandem with the diminishing daylight as the shortest day approaches. Generally, I reckon I’m a pretty positive person, But I have to really concentrate on building up the pluses at this time of year.
Dreary, dull, dismal; greyed out skies and repetitive, dripping rain - mmmm.
I’m lucky to...
Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 15:31
When I wrote that I began this weblog halfway through my residency, this was officially true. However, during the six months that I waited for the formal approval and funding confirmation, I had already started to make regular visits to the Paper Conservation Studio. The studio has remained one of my two main points of contact in the Museum, the other being the Prints and Drawings Room. It has...