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Inside Outing: Arts and Crafts Arcadian Dreams
Wednesday 4 May, 10.30-17.00
Study Day with Coach Trip
Meet in the Grand Entrance
Meet curators and explore the V&A's Arts and Crafts treasures, then visit the Red House and its garden in Bexleyheath, Kent. This important Arts and Crafts building was designed by Philip Webb for William and Jane Morris. The journey ends at the late Victorian Blackfriars public house with its spectacular interior.
Tickets: Full Price £36; V&A Members £30; students £10, disabled people & ES-40 holders £5. Booking essential.
Textiles and dress of the International Arts and Crafts Movement
Saturday 16 July, 10.30-16.00
Lecture Theatre
As part of the events associated with the major V&A exhibition 'International Arts and Crafts', this day will explore the work of textile and dress designers and makers working within the traditions of the Movement from its foundations in the 1880s until the present day. There will be an opportunity to visit the exhibition during the lunch break.
As textiles provided much needed colour, texture and pattern for the totally designed Arts and Crafts interior popular from the 1880s, an enormous revival of interest in all aspects of textile design and manufacture followed. British exponents influenced work throughout Europe, America and Japan with each country developing their own local styles and techniques to suit their national needs. A parallel surge of activity occurred in the design of costume providing very original forms of dress for the many followers of the Movement. It is from this period that many European nations devised their own forms of national dress while at the same time Glasgow and Viennese designers created some of the most forward-looking and original creations seen before.
The Study Day will explore the origins of the International Movement and many of its most original and influential exponents including the work of urban and rural workshops, studios and art schools in many parts of the world. All of this will also be viewed within a contemporary context assessing its relevance today.
Programme
10.00 Museum Opens
10.30 Ann Dooley, Course organiser Welcome and Notices
10.35 Lou Taylor (Chair for the morning) - Introduction
10.40 Head, Heart and Hand:
Linda Parry has spent twenty years researching the subject of Arts and Crafts textiles and is know internationally as a specialist in the field. She has published extensively on the subject and was consultant on the V&As present exhibition. Her talk will summarise the International Arts and Crafts Movement from 1885 until 1914, through the textiles produced at the time highlighting the work of individual artists, designers and craftspeople in Britain, America, Europe and Japan.
Linda Parry, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department
11.25 Coffee
11.45 Traditional and Techno
Sue Prichard is the Victoria and Albert Museum's curator of contemporary textiles. She will trace the development of studio produced textiles from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Fascinated by the work of contemporary textile artists who mix traditional workshop practice with the technology of science and big business, she will assess retrospectively how influential the Arts and Crafts Movement is proving to manufacture today.
Sue Prichard, Curator, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department
12.30 Lunch break (chance to see the International Arts and Crafts exhibition)
14.00 Linda Parry (Chair for the afternoon) - Introduction
14.05 From Stockholm to Tokyo
Considerations of dress were embedded within the European, North American and Japanese Arts and Crafts Movements from the 1860s until the 1940s. Debates focussed on forms of dress which owed little to the costly products of Paris salons. The search was for dress which was timeless, beautiful, 'natural' , spiritual and hand-crafted. The followers of the Movement drew on six influential styles which have recently been identified by Lou Taylor, Professor of Dress and Textile History at the University of Brighton. In this talk she will describe the main characteristics and reasoning behind each.
14.50 The Glasgow Legacy
Glasgow School of Art was a hotbed of innovative textile design that was highly regarded in Europe during the period 1890 -1914. Elizabeth Arthur (Hon. Research Fellow, Glasgow University) an authority on the work of Glasgow embroiderers at this time, will provide a case study of their work exploring the reasons for this development and its considerable international impact on the teaching of emberoidery design and technique to this day.
15.35 Tea - Discussion
16.00 End of Day
For information and advance booking call +44 (0)20 7942 2211 or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk
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