Sue Lawty was Textile Artist in Residence at the V&A in 2005.
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...
Just over a year ago, I ran a tapestry course in the V&A’s Studio. Have been asked to run another one in September and this time we will have three full days to...
Touch - that most primal of senses - is at the core of any artist’s sensibilities who works with stuff. Individual mark of hand is offered through the artist’s touch...
I have long intended to write about Audrey Walker.    A senior figure in the textile community of this country, Audrey is someone for whom I hold deep respect. I have...
It has been an exciting time for Contemporary Textiles at the V&A with two new fabulous pieces acquired for the collection from COLLECT 2007. The first, a woven tapestry by Jo...
Back in September I wrote about filming in Devon with BBC Education for a four week series, 'Seasonal Snapshots'. Spring - the first programme, went out today. My day's filming...
COLOUR, drawing using natural stone marks, 1m x 1m. Into February, into better light levels and this stonework (Dec 15) is now complete and about to go off to the framer. COLOUR...
Over the last few weeks we have begun to chisel away at plans for World Beach ‐ The Stone Drawing Project open to anyone, anywhere on this planet. You will be invited to...
On each visit to the V&A, I find myself growing ever fonder of the new garden space. It was being transformed back in 2005, around the time I was sorting all the tiny stones...
We could think it is the institutions that shape us: the particular school, art college, museum or gallery collaboration. But if I look back, it is specific individuals within...
…. and counting. I can almost physically feel the inner core of my being shrinking in tandem with the diminishing daylight as the shortest day...
To my child mind, the Second World War was very definitely ‘in the olden days’ - the past - gone - history. It was unequivocally and quite physically, behind me…...
“Here there isn't a single trace of man's presence... The wind shapes the landscape as it likes. It is an unchanging landscape which is constantly changing.” Gerard...
Soft, digestive bubblings reverberated from deep within the body beneath...
The very last stone is now from the wall. The 6.17 metres of grading, spacing and order which lived in gallery 101 from June 2005 ‐ September 2006 are no longer. Order (the...
If I have learnt anything at all from this experience, it is that the first rule of programme making is FLEXIBILITY! In West Yorkshire, surrounded by soggy tents and piles of...
Just unpacked a box from Kathmandu of the most fabulous tight, stringy, hard, handspun balls of hemp. 8 wonderful kilos of exactly what I was looking for. A tough thread of a...
A conversation yesterday made me realise that it never ends. It is forever…always…ongoing. There is no clear the desk, switch out the light, close the door, finish. No...
…. old today. To celebrate this blog’s first birthday I have chosen some favourite images from the more humble areas of the V&A’s fabulous mosaic floor. I...
A very brief post to say haven’t gone away…. A number of exciting projects in the pipeline ‐ all entailing certain levels of organisation and admin ‐ have...
LEAD Rock: of the Earth ..... Galena: Lead Ore ..... Mineral ..... Metal ..... Heavy ..... Soft ..... Pliable ..... Malleable ..... Weavable ..... Beatable ........
Very basic raphia sample exploring the relationship between balanced and weft faced weave. Rather unexpectedly, given the rich historic textile environment of the V&A, I have...
Stone drawing by Jo Collinge/Stephen Moore at Farewell Spit, South Island, New Zealand. In 2005, friends from Hebden Bridge in land locked Yorkshire went to live for a few years...
I must admit to not making much progress recently. Sometimes, when the stimulus is so great, so extensive, it can engender a kind of temporary creative paralysis. Intense study of...
Can it really be so long since I wrote anything here!! I seem to have been flat out. Necessary administrative jobs, earning a crust, being away over Easter and generally trying to...
Sounds ripping up and out from the back of his throat; soaring, rolling around the music, gutsy, powerful, textural, filling the auditorium and carrying all with him. Tuesday...
It was Lisa Jacques, education officer at The City Gallery, Leicester who made the connection and my piece ‘Mesh ‘ was the catalyst. Autumn 2005 and The City Gallery...
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When the prime response is felt in the gut, you know an exhibition has hit the spot, 2121 ‐ the textile vision of Reiko Sudo and Nuno did it for me. (Showing at 'The Hub')...