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Rosie Wanek

Senior Exhibitions Co-ordinator, Exhibitions

I am a Senior Exhibitions Coordinator which means that I have a hand in the delivery of a wide variety of exhibitions showing at South Kensington and on tour to countries all over the world. This involves supporting Curators, Exhibitions Coordinators and staff from across the museum make the best of their ideas and resources to create engaging and exciting exhibitions. Some of my current projects include the tour of Italian Fashion to North America and The Fabric of India which is due to open at the V&A in September 2015.

The Fabric of India

Fabric of frenzy

This picture says it all: the remains of a breakfast of coffee, half a croissant and some jelly babies, and a lunch of chips and lemonade. Installations are always somewhat...

The Fabric of India

The Fabric(ation) of India

I must begin with an apology for our collective silence last week. It really is ‘all hands to the pump’ at this stage of exhibition delivery. This is not to say...

The Fabric of India

Measure twice, cut once

Our best selling exhibition of all time Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty closed this weekend, and whilst our visitor services staff may be secretly relieved to have the museum a...

The Fabric of India

Ducklings in the digital age – and Indian textiles…

You may or may not be aware that the V&A currently has a family of ducks living in the central courtyard. Mummy duck, Victoria, and her brood of little ducklings are...

The Fabric of India

A Riot of Colour

In the past weeks I talked a lot about my filming reccie trips in India, but this is all now seeming a long time ago – the film crew have returned with lots of footage and...

The Fabric of India

Location Scout III: Sparkle and shine

So here is one final post from my trip to India last month. I was in pursuit of locations to film hand embroidery in progress and visited a variety of workshops. Many of these...

The Fabric of India

Location Scout Part II: Resist block printing

After a hurried fortnight of preparing storyboards and briefing the film crew, they have now been packed onto their flights and are off to India to capture some of the remarkable...

The Fabric of India

Location Scout: The Khadi weavers of Kaladera

This post has been a little delayed owing to a gastric souvenir that I have bought back from my recent trip to India (not charming and you’ll be grateful that I have no plan...

The Fabric of India

Modern markets for traditional techniques

Indian textiles have long held great appeal to European consumers; so much so that in the 17th Century the Indian textile industry were seen as a direct threat to British textile...

The Fabric of India

The Story so Far: Only 200

The last few weeks mark a particularly exciting moment in the development of any exhibition: we have appointed an exhibition designer. Gitta Geschwendtner and her team of 3d, 2d...