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Eileen Budd

Project Manager, V&A Research Institute (VARI), VARI

Eileen is responsible for the smooth running of VARI and its activities. She is also an illustrator and has had a varied career, including being a rescue scuba diver in Tasmania, Papua New Guinea and Australia, a shark tagger in Fiji and cowgirl in the Australian Outback.

Research

Tricks with Strings, guest blog by Rachel Warr

The VARI Encounters on the Shop Floor project has a few small micro teams called Design Clusters, made up of creative individuals using different kinds of arts practices to...

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Victoria Adukwei Bulley: Artist in Residence for VARI Opening the Cabinet of Curiosities Project

The Project The Cabinets of Curiosity project examines the History of Collecting over the centuries, from Early Modern, to 19th Century to Contemporary. Dr Hannah Young is...

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VARI Artist in Residence Call: Opening the Cabinet, Histories of Slavery and Slave-Ownership

We are delighted to announce our new call for artists who are keen to engage with the histories of slavery and slave-ownership that are ‘hidden in plain sight’ within in the...

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Doing Things Twice: Exploring a V&A Lafreri Volume

Report of a Discussion on the Boundary between the Cataloguing of Books and the Cataloguing of Bound Volumes of Prints by Elizabeth Miller Since the publication of Adam...

Caring for our collections

Illustrating the Process is a Process

Museum Outside the Box illustration by Eileen Budd

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The Influence of the Archive: The Afterlives of Palladio’s Drawings

VARI and V&A+RIBA joined forces for an Architecture Partnership Workshop with VARI Visiting Professor, Guido Beltramini. Guido Beltramini, Director of the Centro...

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Inaugural Annual VARI Symposium by Karen Morton

The Inaugural Annual Symposium of the V&A Research Institute (VARI) featured an impressive range of academics from European institutions, each with a fascinating story to tell...

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Encounters of a Museum Kind

Fine hand skills, muscle memory, a kind of knowledge that we’re aware of, rely on and quite often, underestimate the importance of. Advocating for the significance of embodiment...

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The Mindful Hands by Susan Harris

What do an embroiderer and a surgeon have in common? The embodied knowledge and hands-on skills in using a needle and thread; even though they are from very different disciplines...

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Careful Art: Surgery and Conservation

As an artist who grew up in a scientific household, I recognise the power and possibilities of interdisciplinary working. I believe that connecting ideas from art, science and...

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V&A RCA History of Design Students and the Leman Album

A group of V&A RCA History of Design Students came to visit the Paper Conservation Studio today, to learn more about the designs and also the conservation work behind VARI...