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.
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 15:12
“Aside from the waterfalls, avatars and labyrinths, their space has its similarities to our studio…”
Hands up who wants to be an architect when they grow up…
Committee meetings are, as one American comedian put it, conferences made up of a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. So with that in...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 20:31
“In other words, Shoreditch House without the booze or the rooftop swimming pool…”
Coffee Palaces
Our research into 19th century public houses continued this week with a visit to the British Architectural Library at RIBA HQ, where we read a few books, of all things, one of which was called ‘Victorian Pubs’ by the architectural writer and historian Mark...
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 15:41
“A feather room is exactly the kind of leftfield proposal that would get a young architect noticed!”
First up: Langley Grammar School
This week, we welcomed back the year 9 students from Langley Grammar School for the second part of the schools workshop.
As you will surely remember from our Week 2 blog post, we gave the kids a brief to design...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 17:08
“There should be an app that churns out interesting chat to have with celebrities.”
Tracey’s World: If You Sow Them, They Will Come
According to an old Spanish proverb, under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker, wise words for the launch of the V&A’s quilts exhibition on Wednesday evening, where we found ourselves elbow-deep in...
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 11:01
“Our idea for the summer exhibition is so bloody uncooked it could be steak tartare!”
Summer Lovin’
Citizens of New York and Paris are notorious for fleeing their host cities in the summer months whilst we Londoners prefer to stick it out, sweating through July heat waves or dampened by the August downpours and complaining about whichever weather system we...
Monday, March 8, 2010 - 19:31
“The dome-shaped acoustic amplifier sounded as dubious as the super loud Spinal Tap amps that go all the way up to eleven.”
The Man from Del Monte
Looming deadlines have kept us chained to our desks for most of the week and we don’t expect to shake off the shackles until late next week. Nevertheless, we did manage to attend a lecture at the Bishopsgate...
Monday, March 1, 2010 - 18:20
“The only rule was that they handed back the booze before we passed around the scalpels…”
You call that a knife?
Who said cutting-edge architecture is not dangerous?
On Tuesday evening, the knives were out at the gala event we hosted as part of the ‘V&A Connects’ programme - in a good way, and later in the week we ran our...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 10:23
“The guy is over sixty yet he announced he was stepping down as an MP at the next election via twitter.”
Old King Cole
Remember we told you about the inspiring cityscape we can see out of our studio windows…? You know, the view we have over Exhibition Road and the yonder snow-covered rooftop of the Science Museum. Well, now it’s all gone! The windows...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 00:00
Wow, what a day! It’s half term week and South Kensington is awash with families and small children, most of them in the ceramic studio at the V&A. What a great week to host my swan-song public event, the group modelling of ‘The Big Head’. 131 visitors throughout the day contributed their enthusiasm, imagination and modelling skills to a weird and wonderful portrait head,...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 12:01
“The Government paid a visit to the studio on Tuesday morning…”
Morning Bell
The V&A has been over-run by school children hopped up on half-term holiday fever.
At first, we assumed the long lines of mini-human-caterpillars blocking the corridors and taking over the toilets had taken a wrong turn in the tunnel on their way to...