Installation On now until Sunday, 11 April 2021

Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined

FreePlan a visit

  • On now until Sunday, 11 April 2021

  • The Porter Gallery

  • Free

This immersive installation by contemporary artist Darren Waterston presents a detailed and decadent interpretation of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's famed Peacock Room, a sumptuous 19th-century interior.

Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre was created by the artist in collaboration with MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.

Installation Highlights

Installation view of Filthy Lucre
Installation view Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined, by Darren Waterston, at the V&A. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view of Filthy Lucre
Installation view, Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined by Darren Waterston at the V&A. . © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Worn shelves in front of a blue wallpaper with two golden peacocks on. One peacock is disemboweling the other
Installation view Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined, by Darren Waterston, at the V&A . © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Broken slanted shelves holding colourful ceramic pots, plates and vases, some of which are is broken
Installation view Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined, by Darren Waterston, at the V&A. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view of Filthy Lucre
Installation view, Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined by Darren Waterston at the V&A. . © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view of Filthy Lucre
Installation view, Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined by Darren Waterston at the V&A. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view of Filthy Lucre
Installation view, Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined by Darren Waterston at the V&A. . © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Features

V&A shop

Filthy Lucre enamel badge

Filthy Lucre enamel badge

This pin badge design commemorates Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined. The 12 digit card number is made up of key years in the story of the Peacock Room and the creation and display of Filthy Lucre.

£8.00 Buy
Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre

Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre

Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre presents a dystopian response to the celebrated Peacock Room of 1876, designed by the architect Thomas Jeckyll and made infamous by the controversial painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

£10.00 Buy
Filthy Lucre ginger jar enamel badge

Filthy Lucre ginger jar enamel badge

This lidded jar known as a “ginger jar” was made in the Jingdezhen province around 1683 – 1710 and is typical of the Chinese ceramics that would have been on display in the Peacock Room.

£8.00 Buy
Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined
Background image: Installation view, Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined by Darren Waterston at the V&A. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London