I have realised that being lost is not always such a bad...
By Stuart Frost I’m currently focussed on researching and developing low-tech interpretative devices for the new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. At present I’m...
…. and counting. I can almost physically feel the inner core of my being shrinking in tandem with the diminishing daylight as the shortest day...
When I wrote that I began this weblog halfway through my residency, this was officially true. However, during the six months that I waited for the formal approval and funding...
To my child mind, the Second World War was very definitely ‘in the olden days’ - the past - gone - history. It was unequivocally and quite physically, behind me…...
By Stuart Frost I take the train into work each morning. As it passes over the Thames I usually cast a glance towards the towers of Westminster Abbey which I can make out behind...
“Here there isn't a single trace of man's presence... The wind shapes the landscape as it likes. It is an unchanging landscape which is constantly changing.” Gerard...
If you were on a journey and asked to describe it, where might you begin? Maybe by stating your destination or would it be your point of departure? On the other hand would you...
By Stuart Frost Over the last few years I’ve become increasingly familiar with the V&A’s fantastic medieval and Renaissance collections. Those of us fortunate enough to...
Soft, digestive bubblings reverberated from deep within the body beneath...
By Stuart Frost The 14 October 1066 is arguably the most famous date in English history, even if most people remember the year rather than the day and month. The Battle of...
A couple of weeks ago I gave a gallery talk in the Museum ‘Race and Rulership in Renaissance Florence’. The focus of the talk was a portrait of Alessandro de’ Medici...
The very last stone is now from the wall. The 6.17 metres of grading, spacing and order which lived in gallery 101 from June 2005 ‐ September 2006 are no longer. Order (the...
If I have learnt anything at all from this experience, it is that the first rule of programme making is FLEXIBILITY! In West Yorkshire, surrounded by soggy tents and piles of...
Just unpacked a box from Kathmandu of the most fabulous tight, stringy, hard, handspun balls of hemp. 8 wonderful kilos of exactly what I was looking for. A tough thread of a...
A conversation yesterday made me realise that it never ends. It is forever…always…ongoing. There is no clear the desk, switch out the light, close the door, finish. No...
…. old today. To celebrate this blog’s first birthday I have chosen some favourite images from the more humble areas of the V&A’s fabulous mosaic floor. I...
A very brief post to say haven’t gone away…. A number of exciting projects in the pipeline ‐ all entailing certain levels of organisation and admin ‐ have...
LEAD Rock: of the Earth ..... Galena: Lead Ore ..... Mineral ..... Metal ..... Heavy ..... Soft ..... Pliable ..... Malleable ..... Weavable ..... Beatable ........
Very basic raphia sample exploring the relationship between balanced and weft faced weave. Rather unexpectedly, given the rich historic textile environment of the V&A, I have...
Stone drawing by Jo Collinge/Stephen Moore at Farewell Spit, South Island, New Zealand. In 2005, friends from Hebden Bridge in land locked Yorkshire went to live for a few years...
I must admit to not making much progress recently. Sometimes, when the stimulus is so great, so extensive, it can engender a kind of temporary creative paralysis. Intense study of...
Can it really be so long since I wrote anything here!! I seem to have been flat out. Necessary administrative jobs, earning a crust, being away over Easter and generally trying to...
During the period that Sue’s work has been on display at the V&A, and she has been writing this blog, we have seen a number of articles about her work appearing in a...
Sounds ripping up and out from the back of his throat; soaring, rolling around the music, gutsy, powerful, textural, filling the auditorium and carrying all with him. Tuesday...
It was Lisa Jacques, education officer at The City Gallery, Leicester who made the connection and my piece ‘Mesh ‘ was the catalyst. Autumn 2005 and The City Gallery...
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When the prime response is felt in the gut, you know an exhibition has hit the spot, 2121 ‐ the textile vision of Reiko Sudo and Nuno did it for me. (Showing at 'The Hub')...
As I write this, the ghost of exertion is still steaming from my back and I have barely caught my breath but I feel motivated to get my thoughts down straight away. At eight...
Just over an hour ago I took delivery of my work from the V&A. Just over a year ago I was frantically trying to finish it all ‐ prepare it for display ‐ pack it...