By Stuart Frost Christmas is almost upon us. Everyone working on the project is looking forward to having a well earned break. Naturally enough Christmas has been a popular...
By Stuart Frost The V&A is the National Musuem of Art & Design but it is also far more than that. We know that our visitors use the Museum’s collections in many...
The idea for the World Beach Project arrived in my head fully formed and in an instant. It popped up by way of responding to the response to my work using small stones, which in...
The temporary refuge as a metaphor for the fragility of the human condition. I seem to keep returning to this idea in my work – during the 1990s I explored cocoon and hive forms...
By Stuart Frost The amount of progress that has been made in preparing the gallery spaces for installation of the new displays is incredible. I had a glimpse behind the Gallery 50...
Another outcome of the residency so far is that three works from my installation in Gallery 102 earlier this year are now held by the Word and Image...
By Stuart Frost I saw a production of Faustus in Richmond two weeks ago. The play was loosely based on the text of the Tudor playwright Christopher Marlowe. However contemporary...
A pause, not a full stop – the residency period was due to end after my last posting. However following a number of discussions and meetings, I received an invitation from the...
Sometimes the creativity is in the discovery, the isolating. Tiny rocky cove. Clamber or swim to. Bit secret. Hours, days months before... who knows... the head had been...
Stuart Frost Over the last week or so I’ve been focussed on writing draft labels for a series of touch objects for the new Medieval and Renaissance displays. If you’d like...
Guest post by V&A blog administrator. We are very pleased to announce that the World Beach Project webpages are now live on the V&A website and we have received our first...
By Stuart Frost The Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Project team have been conducting a series of display mock-ups since July of this year. These allow us to test the new...
By Stuart Frost I spent a rather pleasant weekend in Blackawton a little while ago. Blackawton is a small village in Devon, not far from Totnes. I was there helping a friend set...
The Hunting Tapestries hanging in the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall in 1899. Image taken from ‘The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries’ by George Wingfield Digby,...
There's nothing quite like it. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tapestry Course students in room 94, September 2007 When Room 94 closed a while ago,...
Alluding to the elusive. How many tasks do we embark on where the ‘end’… that point of resolution… is like a mirage, shimmering invitingly, only to fade as...
By Stuart Frost We have been working on the interpretation for the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries for some time. We are now a stage where we can begin to commission and build...
Seatown, Dorset. Steep stone beach, newly sea washed, clean and even. Occasional larger flat matt pale blue-grey stones scattered across shingle surface. Gathering, laying,...
Found myself travelling east at the weekend, to a wide expanse of sand just north of Liverpool. A place that I would probably never have otherwise visited, we were there to see...
By Stuart Frost I think most visitors would be staggered by the amount of work that is involved in pulling together museum displays. When visitors walk around a successful new...
Stuff goes in. Stuff comes out…. In much of our education system ‐ particularly in the over examined school context - it is often implied that art/design/creativity is...
“The book is a beautiful production. I’ve just seen Gaze at the V&A:...
By Stuart Frost I have to confess that I am guilty of claiming one particular object of being my favourite, and then next week I declare something else to be the greatest artefact...
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By Stuart Frost I wonder how many people in England today are aware that the 25th July is the feast day of St James? This celebration of this feast day began in the middle...
Sue Prichard, in the introduction to this blog, talks of the (artist’s) ‘journey of discovery’ and I have discussed this aspect many times in various...
                         Above left: Stone drawing detail. Natural stones of...
By Stuart Frost With over 1800 objects to prepare for installation in the Medieval and Renaissance Europe galleries in autumn 2009 it isn’t surprising that there is a enormous...
Time has passed by since my last posting. The weeks have been filled with activities of a different kind – with a different focus. A move from private to public domain. In the...