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Danielle Thom

Assistant Curator, Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass

I'm an assistant curator working between the Sculpture and Prints departments; looking mainly at 18th century material. I look at the relationships between sculpture and printmaking, and the place of sexuality and eroticism in art. I'm also curating 'A Stitch in Time', a forthcoming display of decorative sewing and knitting tools with a feminist twist.

Museum life

‘A Stitch in Time: Home Sewing Before 1900’

A stitch in time, may save nine. First recorded in Thomas Fuller’s Gnomologia, Adages and Proverbs (1732) The meaning of the ‘stitch in time’ proverb is well...

Out in the Museum

18th Century Queer Cultures #2: Connoisseurship & Classicism

In part #1 of this blog post, we looked at the representation of homosexuality in visual culture of the eighteenth century. Though the stereotypical image of the overdressed,...

Museum life

18th century Queer Cultures #1: the Macaroni and his ancestors

Out in the Museum

Out On Display #4: Akio Takamori and ‘Queer Objects’

Vase Akio Takamori USA, glazed stoneware, 1985 C.59-1986 On display in room 142 The contemporary Japanese-American ceramicist Akio Takamori creates pieces which draw upon...

Out in the Museum

Out On Display #3: The Scandalous Collectors

William Beckford T. A. Dean after Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. England (London), mezzotint engraving on paper, c.1800 E.2046-1919 On display in room 120 Cravat Grinling...

Out in the Museum

Out On Display #2: Eileen Gray, Avant-Garde Designer

Screen Eileen Gray France (Paris), wood with lacquer, c.1928 W.40-1977 On display in room 135 Born into an aristocratic Irish family, the designer and architect Eileen Gray...

Out in the Museum

Out On Display #1: Hadrian and Antinous

Welcome to ‘Out in the Museum’; the V&A’s new blog series on all things LGBTQ+! We’ll be covering art, history, museum events and advocacy. Your...

Tales from the Archives

An Unknown Soldier? The V&A’s First World War Memorial

Simple and solemn in cream Hopton Wood stone, the V&A’s monument to its 1914-18 war dead sits unobtrusively in the main entrance hall. Designed in 1919 by the sculptor and...