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.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 14:10
My residency came to an end on the 22nd December, though the work has remained in the studio. I will be returning to the V&A next week to begin taking apart the installation, keeping some fragments and re-cycling other material. During the final week, photographer Sylvain Deleu came to the studio to document the work, here are a selection of his pictures.
(All photos © Sylvain Deleu...
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 13:12
Film made by Carina Westling, Brighton.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 11:08
Birmingham 2009/10
For eight months I lived on a street just off spaghetti junction on the M6. At the bottom of the interchange was a row of semi-detached houses, which I passed most days. One house in particular stood out. Its front garden was crammed with palms and other tropical looking plants, seemingly defiant or oblivious to their location. The thick vegetation narrowed the path so as...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 16:48
'Shadow Box' performance set in the Cast Courts at the V&A MuseumImages by V&A photographer Peter Kelleher
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 10:41
In celebration of the fantastic Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography exhibition currently on display in the museum, October's Friday Late was themed around Catching Shadows. As part of the programme of activities for the evening I invited visitors to model additions to a clay landscape which was lit to cast a shadow of the scene onto the wall in the Sackler Centre.
Throughout the...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 15:01
In 2009 I made several visits to the closed Spode factory site in Stoke-on-Trent. I collected a number of things from the factory floor, including an abandoned copy of J.G.Ballard's novel The Drowned World. The found book was damp and growing several types of mould so I bought a new copy which I have read and re-read several times over the past year. It describes London as it sinks below...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 17:12
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 09:42
Before starting the residency I had a clear idea of what I wanted to research in the collection but no fixed vision of how the work I made would look. What has emerged appears as though the landscapes from the museum objects I have been studying were swept under water where they became muddled and settled as sediments. A dredged scene, like fragile crusts formed on things that once were....
Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 13:54
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Tapestry Cartoon: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Luke 5: 1-11. Raphael (1483 - 1520).
Italy 1515-16. © Royal Collection / V&A
I will be running a three-day practical workshop at the V&A to coincide with the current exhibition Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel.
Four of the ten tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City are displayed...
Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 08:40
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More fantastic projects... In April 2009, Ka'u Homeschool Art Class Keikis were World Beaching on Punalu'u Black Sand Beach, Big Island of Hawaii. They wrote: ' Mothers & Teacher Suzshi Lang made a large scale Honu. (top left) By Hawaiian law, it is a requirement to keep a distance of fifteen feet away from the turtles. The class 'made a serene family of Honu resting on the...