Membership
Treat yourself or a loved one with the gift of Membership: enjoy free access to all exhibitions, access to our Members’ Room, priority booking to evening talks, and much more.
Join today
Career Insight: Crafting and Making
How can you develop artistic skills to enjoy either as a hobby or apply to a creative career?
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
Past Event
Join the V&A Youth Collective as they sit down with artists working across a range of disciplines to explore how to create space for crafting and making in your life, either as a hobby, a career or both!
This conversation will explore where and how to develop artistic skills, how to navigate building a sustainable career in the art world and finding the joy in being creative, crafting and making.
Joining us for the event will be
Leszek Mozga, art director, illustrator and animator
Chloé Rochefort, textile artist, community producer, and researcher
Roo Dhissou, multifaceted artist, researcher, publisher, writer, and PhD candidate
After the panel discussion there will be an opportunity to connect with other attendees, discuss creative careers and take part in workshops that explore different aspects of the speakers art practices.
This conversation will explore where and how to develop artistic skills, how to navigate building a sustainable career in the art world and finding the joy in being creative, crafting and making.
Joining us for the event will be
Leszek Mozga, art director, illustrator and animator
Chloé Rochefort, textile artist, community producer, and researcher
Roo Dhissou, multifaceted artist, researcher, publisher, writer, and PhD candidate
After the panel discussion there will be an opportunity to connect with other attendees, discuss creative careers and take part in workshops that explore different aspects of the speakers art practices.
This event is hosted and co-produced by the V&A Youth Collective.
The panel talk will be live streamed to online audiences from the V&A Museum. Book a ticket on this page to join the event live at the museum, or sign up here to watch the conversation online.
---
Leszek Mozga is an artist and Creative Director who creates cinematic worlds through 3D animation and stop motion. He has worked as a Creative Director in the advertising industry leading film storytelling and visual campaigns. His stop motion projects have won international awards and his work has been shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Leszek currently leads the creative vision at OhhDeer where he uses a mix of traditional techniques and technology to tell stories. He also works as an Animation Tutor supporting new artists as they start their careers.
Chloé Rochefort (they/them) is a textile artist, community producer, and researcher. Their craft practice recognises and responds to people, places, and heritage through participatory art projects. Chloé is interested in how the act of making can shape feelings of belonging and support the exploration of complex social and political topics. Chloé specialises in large-scale, immersive textile installations and place-based participative interventions. Their artworks are co-created with community groups during workshop series, where participants explore storytelling through materials and various craft techniques. Their projects are led in collaboration with places such as charities, community centers, social enterprises, and institutions that promote more caring and sustainable futures for local communities
Roo Dhissou is a Birmingham-based artist, researcher, writer and publisher whose practice spans sculpture, installation, craft, publishing and community-engaged collaboration. Rooted in care, cultural memory and material justice, her work explores disability, diaspora, ecology, spirituality and collective ways of learning through making. Working across food, conversation, architecture, zines and socially engaged practice, Roo creates spaces for reflection, exchange and repair.
The panel talk will be live streamed to online audiences from the V&A Museum. Book a ticket on this page to join the event live at the museum, or sign up here to watch the conversation online.
---
Leszek Mozga is an artist and Creative Director who creates cinematic worlds through 3D animation and stop motion. He has worked as a Creative Director in the advertising industry leading film storytelling and visual campaigns. His stop motion projects have won international awards and his work has been shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Leszek currently leads the creative vision at OhhDeer where he uses a mix of traditional techniques and technology to tell stories. He also works as an Animation Tutor supporting new artists as they start their careers.
Chloé Rochefort (they/them) is a textile artist, community producer, and researcher. Their craft practice recognises and responds to people, places, and heritage through participatory art projects. Chloé is interested in how the act of making can shape feelings of belonging and support the exploration of complex social and political topics. Chloé specialises in large-scale, immersive textile installations and place-based participative interventions. Their artworks are co-created with community groups during workshop series, where participants explore storytelling through materials and various craft techniques. Their projects are led in collaboration with places such as charities, community centers, social enterprises, and institutions that promote more caring and sustainable futures for local communities
Roo Dhissou is a Birmingham-based artist, researcher, writer and publisher whose practice spans sculpture, installation, craft, publishing and community-engaged collaboration. Rooted in care, cultural memory and material justice, her work explores disability, diaspora, ecology, spirituality and collective ways of learning through making. Working across food, conversation, architecture, zines and socially engaged practice, Roo creates spaces for reflection, exchange and repair.
Her research-led practice examines how knowledge is formed through lived experience, relationships and cultural inheritance, often drawing on personal and collective history, domestic spaces and DIY forms of publishing. Roo is currently completing a practice-based PhD and runs Jalebi Press, an independent publishing platform supporting artists and writers from underrepresented backgrounds. Recent recognitions include the Serpentine Galleries’ Support Structures for Support Structures fellowship (2024), New Contemporaries (2024), and the acquisition of her work into the Arts Council Collection.
