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, June 10, 2010 - 00:59
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Northern Art Prize 2010.
On the long list but not the short.
Short listed artists are:
Alec Finlay, Lubaina Himid, David Jacques and Haroon Mirza.
A very warm good luck to all of them.
I look forward to seeing the show in Leeds in November.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 18:43
“Any sane person could be excused for thinking that a rap star had taken up a trainer-design residency at the V&A…”
‘Cardboard Constructions’
Imagine the poor security guard’s face when a thousand shoeboxes were delivered to the Sackler Centre… Any sane person could be excused for thinking that a rap star had taken up a trainer-design...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 10:37
“Mrs S is already proving her hipster credentials…”
A Two-Week Shopping Spree
London shoppers can forget about Charlotte, Carrie, Samantha and the redheaded one for two weeks, because later this June, the four guys from aberrant architecture and the House of Jonn will be bringing the collaborative noise to Oxford Street!
In preparation for the aforementioned...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 09:16
“Once these animals are turned loose, they will revert to type and waddle off into the night in search of beer and curry.”
They Say A Day Is A Long Time In Politics…
On Tuesday night, we headed to the RIBA’s headquarters in Portland Place for the RIBA Trust’s annual lecture, industry get together, back slapping bonanza, business card swap-meet and all...
Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 15:54
“Instead of…blaming online espionage and underhanded tricks by our competitors courtesy of mercenary Chinese computer hackers, we at aberrant are willing to take some of the blame…”
The aberrant Appeal
There must be something rotten in the online state of Internet search engines. Type “V&A” and “aberrant” into Google and aberrant...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 07:57
“Unlike many a would-be politician, our entry hopefully looks a lot better than it sounds…”
The aberrant team has been all over the map this week. Much like an electioneering MP, we visited an Italian enclave in central London, we knocked on doors in our local community and we even addressed an audience in the regions.
The Circle Line
The aberrant...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 14:17
“She likened the Styrofoam coffee cups cut in half to a design by David Adjaye”
Manic Street Pre-fabrication
“Libraries gave us power,” sings James Dean Bradfield on the Manic Street Preachers’ track ‘Design for Life’. “Then work came and made us free,” he continues. “What price now for a shallow piece of dignity...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 08:20
“aberrant are always keen to impress a visiting supermodel…”
The Model Workshop
Preparations are well underway for our ‘Design for Life’ workshop next week, during which our school-age participants will be asked to supercharge a typical residential suburb to cater for the needs of a growing population of home-workers. The big news is that the...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 21:30
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Liquid squidgey sloppy shiny dull matt flaky heavy crumbly runny rock hard. Clay... in all its forms. And as raw, basic and unprocessed as it gets.
Marl Hole 2009. A film by Neil Brownsword, directed by Johnny Magee. A welcome addition to the Taking Time exhibition now showing at the Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire until June 6. Taking Time addresses many aspects of the Slow Movement, one being...
Sunday, April 18, 2010 - 15:57
“In the pitch black, we tiptoed through the galleries, bearing torches like art thieves…” The Weekender: A less than grand national The open studio weekender kicked off on Saturday with a group of visitors crowded behind one of our large MacBook screens. With varying degrees of interest, each of us cheered on the aberrant-backed horse, an outside tip to win the Grand National...