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, January 14, 2010 - 19:23
“We will have to wait and see if the draw of the dinosaur gym can outdo discount bacon, sausages and baked beans.”
We moved into our new home on Monday 4th January. For the next six months, Residency Studio 2, Sackler Centre, V&A Museum, London will be our address, just in case anyone wants to send us a moving in present.
The Christmas decorations...
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 17:36
“The options on the menu were chicken, pork and meat, but no one could tell us what exactly the ‘meat’ was.”
aberrant exhibited 'Gordon Wu CityLocal’, a trade stand offering franchise opportunities to the inhabitants of Shenzhen’s urban villages.
Usually we develop ideas and plan exhibits with first hand familiarity of...
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 16:40
“There should be a gong or orchestral music to drown out people who ask silly questions…”
For our debut presentation to the Architecture Foundation, we gave an advanced preview of our ‘Gordon Wu CityLocal’ exhibition at the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture: City Mobilization (for more information see our...
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 14:12
“The smash and grab operation only yielded 250 catalogues.”
In October 2009, a crack architecture and design unit was selected to take part in an exhibition in Cardiff by a panel of industry heavyweights; their submission no one thought they could commit to: a series of stories, entitled ‘Love Stories of Recession’, which explore the theme of...
Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 00:00
Modelled the first of the six clay heads, this one based on the marble sculpture ‘Pandora’ by John Gibson. I’ve also started ‘the Frankenstein project’ which will replicate the process used to make the ‘identikit’ drawings, but will use ‘mug-shots’ of studio visitors/volunteers instead of heads from the collections.
Visitors will be...
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 09:46
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Had to get out.
Run. Unfit. Up. Slow Hard.
Black ice.
Imagine the dance.
Clumsy skitter.
Low bright white light.
Muscles struggle.
Feet pound.
Heart beat.
Harsh breath.
Icy long fingered
Rasping cold deep inside
Rhythm.
Repetition.
High.
Vista.
Wide. White. Clean. Sharp.
Crystals. Crystal clear thoughts.
That was today.
These, a few days ago.
Cumbria, looking west.
Sun. Snow. Clear...
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 00:00
Planned to bring the armature for a large clay head to the V&A this week, but am unable to drive down due to the severe weather. Instead I have press-moulded the six generic clay heads. Earlier in the week, in Manchester, I screen-printed a series of ceramic transfer prints (head drawings and archive text material) and fired these onto some test tiles and small plates.
I’ve...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:30
Today is my last day as a resident at the V&A. Everything is packed into boxes, ready for me to take home, the walls have now returned to their plain white after having been filled with works in progress and collected postcards.
Six months sounds like a long time, but sitting here at the end of it, I can hardly believe the residency is over. To say I didn't want to leave would...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 12:42
This is more of a series of blog entries in one, since it is talking about the whole process of this project from beginning to end. Why not write the entries as the thing progresses? Well, one gets caught up in actually doing the thing! The idea came about while I was in the Prints and Drawings Study Room, researching depictions of magic for a story I was writing. I had been told that there was a...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 00:00
Christmas is looming, the weather is rather grim, and the museum is unusually very quiet. I spend the week making a clay model and casting the plaster mould for a small ‘generic’ head. Pressings from this mould will form the common ‘core’ for a series of six modelled heads, based on the same six multi-cultural heads I’ve used in the identikit drawings.