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, December 23, 2005 - 16:50
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Quite a number of people - off and online - have been posing the ‘which glue’ question.
I am absolutely not an expert, so in no way should this be taken as the definitive solution.
The glue I use is PVA, widely available from art / stationary shops.
Before I embarked on such a major body of work, I ran a number of trials using this and other adhesives. I also contacted a number of...
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 21:43
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I had not appreciated, until I was invited to visit the Textile Conservation Section last week, just how much shared ground there would be.
Susana’s and my paths had crossed some months earlier during one of my first research sessions in the textile store. I remember beautiful, highly intricate, Greek embroideries were being selected from the archives for future exhibitions.
Many times I...
Monday, December 12, 2005 - 23:31
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Sue Lawty’s work has an immediate appeal to me as a textile conservator and a student of textiles.
There is an absolute beauty and serenity in the order created by Sue’s careful sorting and understanding of the elements chosen by her, be it textile fibres or found objects, uniting them and transforming them into her own original creations.
Warp and weft relationship, interlocking,...
Sunday, December 4, 2005 - 19:58
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Running this morning in the pouring rain and mud led me to contemplating…
just WHY is it so good?
I think it’s to do with total engagement:
The primal, fundamental contact with air, wind, rain, mist, sun, warm, cold…
The unrelenting and direct contact with the ground - treading every inch of the route - hard, uneven gritstone; squidgey moorland mud; forgiving feel of forest...
Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 16:35
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Very good two day symposium in Harrogate last Thursday and Friday.
I so nearly didn’t book ‐ juggling and justifying the expense to the last minute…but being there served to affirm the fundamental value and importance of such events in a creative life.
The focus:
“ 16 leading international practitioners, curators and historians discuss the possibilities for creative...
Friday, November 18, 2005 - 16:43
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Just back from my first run for over 18 months!
Tired muscles but the clearest of clear days at this time of year are a gift.
High on the moors with running partner Eileen who has never given up on me.
Treading ancient tracks - stones worn by thousands of passages of human feet.
Frozen ground, long glistening combs of hoar frost coating the tussocky grass. Warm sun.
Wild, empty, open - freedom...
Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 00:49
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Since writing the previous blog entry - ‘Making Order’ - a friend has directed me to the opening stanza of William Blake’s poem ‘Auguries of Innocence” which to my shame I didn’t know.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
In searching for the exact quote on the web I...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 15:25
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I have made two installation pieces in gallery101….‘Hieroglyph’ and ‘Order’
I want to talk about the second one first.
Order
Around the time I was invited to display my work at the V&A, I had been tussling with the notion of making a really large stone drawing ‐ something beyond my own expectations - something that would fill your field of vision...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 13:10
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Two very interesting days in gallery 101.
Two tables of sketchbooks, samples and work in progress.
Many visitors, sometimes 2 -3 deep at the table, sometimes a lone soul.
Always good to meet people and had many fascinating conversations.
Some stayed for the whole 3 hours - some for 5 minutes.
One of the nicest moments of the two days was when I was given a spontaneous (and tight!) farewell hug...
Saturday, November 12, 2005 - 01:16
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I was recently given a stone of the most extraordinary proportions. It is 14 times as long as it is wide. It is 13.6 x 0.9cm
It is beautiful, fine, smooth and slender with a quality of weight and shape that is suggestive of an ancient tool with which to write or for modelling clay. And yet it is perfectly natural ‐ just as the sea chucked it onto the shore.
The beach it is from is a...