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, December 5, 2006 - 17:01
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To my child mind, the Second World War was very definitely ‘in the olden days’ - the past - gone - history. It was unequivocally and quite physically, behind me… by a long way. I was not connected to it.
In fact, it ended only nine years before I was born. As an adult, the passing of nine years goes by in a flash and I consider the last decade to be ‘current’. (I...
Monday, November 20, 2006 - 17:25
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“Here there isn't a single trace of man's presence... The wind shapes the landscape as it likes. It is an unchanging landscape which is constantly changing.”
Gerard Lanux
Wind on desert sand; water on coastal sand… the rhythmic passing of time.
I am guessing that every single one of the resulting undulating patterns is different. Like every grain of sand, every star, every pass...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 17:02
If you were on a journey and asked to describe it, where might you begin? Maybe by stating your destination or would it be your point of departure? On the other hand would you simply want to look around and describe the view at that particular moment? Or would you want to go back much further in time in order to talk about why you decided to make the journey in the first place?
It feels very...
Thursday, November 2, 2006 - 17:22
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Soft, digestive bubblings reverberated from deep within the body beneath me. Zarawah, my fabulous ship of the desert, chewed the cud for his second or third late afternoon snack as we swayed rhythmically together towards the distant sand dunes.Perched on a precarious nest of baskets and blankets some seven feet above the stony desert floor, I relaxed into these rather odd sensations and...
Friday, September 29, 2006 - 15:03
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The very last stone is now from the wall.
The 6.17 metres of grading, spacing and order which lived in gallery 101 from June 2005 ‐ September 2006 are no longer.
Order (the title of this temporary installation) is currently in a situation of re-order; labelled and stored in hundreds of small, numbered, plastic bags. Its partner piece, Hieroglyph, is in a similar state.
I was fascinated by...
Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:48
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If I have learnt anything at all from this experience, it is that the first rule of programme making is FLEXIBILITY!
In West Yorkshire, surrounded by soggy tents and piles of washing ‐ only seconds it seemed, home from a summer camping trip ‐ the phone call came. “Bad weather forecasted for the end of the week ‐ filming schedule bought forward”.
Okay… don...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 13:29
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Just unpacked a box from Kathmandu of the most fabulous tight, stringy, hard, handspun balls of hemp. 8 wonderful kilos of exactly what I was looking for. A tough thread of a rich, undulating, natural colour - love it! The smell ‐ simultaneously a fresh deep hay barn and Nepal.
A few years ago, coming back from leading a trek in Bhutan, I came across a small shop selling bags that I...
Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 14:39
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A conversation yesterday made me realise that it never ends. It is forever…always…ongoing.
There is no clear the desk, switch out the light, close the door, finish.
No ‘tick the box' done.
Like water, like a river ‐ creativity is fluid, sort of joined up ‐ continuous. No actual beginning, no actual end. It just keeps coming - flowing (or not!) unbidden. Trickling...
Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 22:35
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…. old today.
To celebrate this blog’s first birthday I have chosen some favourite images from the more humble areas of the V&A’s fabulous mosaic floor.
I took these shots as I was leaving one evening after working all day on the installations in Gallery 101. Scurrying down the corridor above the Cast Courts, I became aware of the subtle, patterns beneath my feet.
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Monday, July 3, 2006 - 08:38
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A very brief post to say haven’t gone away….
A number of exciting projects in the pipeline ‐ all entailing certain levels of organisation and admin ‐ have kept me quiet for a while (at least here). I will talk about these in the next weeks, but for the moment, to say, it is the nature of this business (of life indeed)
- that we work on current projects,
- whilst...