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, November 3, 2005 - 12:05
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In the big sky landscape of Northumberland 14 miles due west of Newcastle, Friday night saw the studio opening of good friend, Richard Kidd.
Richard paints landscapes. Large, gestural, freely abstract canvases full of energy and movement evoking the wild rugged land of Scotland.
Six months ago, forced vacation of his derelict industrial studio building on the banks of the Tyne meant a search...
Friday, October 21, 2005 - 12:04
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This week I have spent three very full days within the V&A museum.
I have been looking, drawing, writing, researching, photographing (photographed), giving a talk in the gallery and extending my extremely limited I.T / technical skills a little further.
I have also been closeted for very many hours with the most stunning textiles
which lie concealed, in row upon row of drawers in the museum...
Friday, October 14, 2005 - 08:54
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1969: Shirebrook Comprehensive School ‘Careers Convention’
and I ask the then Head of Chesterfield College of Art
“I’m not great at it but I think I want to do art. How do I know if it’s the right choice?”
His answer:
“The only advice I can give is that you have to want to do it. REALLY want to do it. Want to do it more than anything else”
Well to...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 07:33
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Notebook entry:
Wednesday 10 August 2005. Alpes Maritime
Clues de Barles, near Digne.
Pressed biscuit thin perpendicular ribs of rock,
Lined one after another like a vertical mille feuille pastry
sharp and incised
worn into a deep smooth cleft
snaking hundreds of feet upwards towards sky.
Fine, thin ice cream wafers of rock fanning out from hillside...
Monday, September 5, 2005 - 19:40
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Monday 11 July 2005
10.30am. High on top of Petit Vignmale in French Pyrenees.
Exposed drops to right and high on left above glacier.
Clear sun, cool breeze.
Rock, hard and folded - thrust upwards. Startling red layers abutting grey.
Earth's massive movement evident.
Vanita, who knows about rocks - properly - scientifically, talks of...
Monday, August 8, 2005 - 14:16
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I want to talk about many aspects of the work....... probably in no particular order....... to provide a context for the thinking that (I hope) is going to take place over the next few months.
But where to start...
A thought:
It occurs to me that in this world of bright young beings there has to be some pay off for getting older and I think it is this:- That you learn to know one or two things...
Friday, July 15, 2005 - 09:33
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I always think that absolutely the hardest thing about weaving a tapestry is the starting - the very first row. And so it is thus with this web log. At this begining stage the warp is virgin, the canvas blank. It's a scary and most precarious moment in the creative process. In the studio I like to be free to work intuitively - feeling my way inch by inch - making decisions based on what has...