OBJECT OF DESIRE

Object of Desire 2018, an artist's book by Mandy Prowse was showing in the Small Publishing Unfair at Camberwell College of Art library. 30th April-21st May 2018.

Threads of Feeling

A bunch of 4 ribbons narrow – Yellow, Blue, Green, & Pink’. Silk ribbons tied in a bunch with a knot. Foundling number 170. A girl admitted 9 December 1743. Given the name Pamela Townley by the Foundling Hospital. Died 1 September 1746.

Threads of Feeling. The Foundling Hospital's textile tokens, 1740-1770.

The Foundling Hospital textiles consist of 5,000 small swatches of fabric dating from the middle decades of the eighteenth century. They are pinned to the registration documents that recorded the entry of each baby to the Hospital. These fabrics were kept by the Hospital as a means of establishing an identifiable link between the child and its mother. They now comprise the largest collection of everyday textiles surviving from the eighteenth century in Britain.

The exhibition continues at The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1 until 6th March 2011. Entrance is £7.50.

Waterworks

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

The Museum of Everything

Today I fell in love - with a museum. The Museum of Everything is not to be described but I do urge you to go and visit this extraordinary place if you are able to and allow plenty of time because there is a lot to see, everything in fact. There are some stairs to climb up and down. The museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday and the nearest underground station is Chalk Farm on the Northern line. There are more details on their website.

Day of the Dead

Celebrate the Day of the Dead at the British museum on Sunday 1 November from 11-5pm.

In Praise of Shadows

In Praise of Shadows

New European Lighting Design curated by Jane Withers, London Design Festival at the Victoria and Albert Museum until 27th September.

Museums at Night

Kiss of Death bonnet by Jo Gordon 1996

satin and pheasant feathers.

Visit the V&A late at night! On Friday 15 May the Museum will open the very popular exhibition Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones and selected galleries until midnight as part of the Museums at Night celebration.

Museums at Night is a national campaign, led by and funded by Culture24, MLA and the National Museum Directors' Conference (NMDC), to showcase the unique and vibrant museums, galleries, heritage sites, libraries and archives in the UK. It is associated with the European event, La Nuit desMusées, held in celebration of International Museums Day.
Last entry to the exhibition will be at 23.00.

Circles by the sea.

Porcelain cameo in the Brighton museum

Sky mirror by Anish Kapoor
Pavilion Gardens

Sculpture on the seafront.

Museum of Childhood

Museum of Childhood

Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London E2.

Wellcome Collection

Postcards produced by the Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road, London NW1 from the exhibition War and Medicine. I missed this exhibition which ended a couple of weeks ago - you can still buy the book. The Wellcome Collection has a permanent display of unusual artifacts including a short film, The Phantom Museum by The Quay Brothers and a great bookshop.

A is for bicycle

Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green

The Make Lounge at the V&A

Designerama!, originally uploaded by :: the make lounge ::.

A weekend of events celebrating the new Sackler Centre for arts education at the V&A museum including workshops with The Make Lounge. Designerama is on 24th, 25th & 26th October.

Somerset House

Somerset House is a good place to visit for exhibitions, tea on the terrace or just to walk around and soak up the atmosphere. They hold guided tours twice a month, Hidden Spaces and History.

The Type Museum

The Type Museum in London is in trouble. I heard about it on the We Made This blog.

Please sign the petition to save this precious resource.

You can see some pictures of the museum on Vince Connare's flickr page.

Geffrye Museum

The wonderful Geffrye museum is just across the road from Paintworks. If you are interested in the history of the home you will enjoy this museum (they have a good cafe too). And they let you take photographs!

Maleonn

Days on the Cotton Candy no.4

It's smoke and cloud
It's foam
It's huge sweetness and happiness expanded
from a small spoon of sugar

I can't wait to see these photographs by Maleonn at the China Design Now exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum next month. Have a look at his website. Very inspiring!

Unmonumental: the object in the 21st century.

“Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century" explores the reinvention of sculptural assemblage, using found, fragmented, and discarded materials. The exhibition is at the New Museum in New York until 30 March. I saw the catalogue for this show in the V&A bookshop. It features the work of an artist whose work I saw in 2005 at Herald Street gallery in London called Alexandra Bircken. I loved her work and did some drawings in my notebook.

my notebook, 2005

damaged reflection

Toilets in the V&A with beautiful tiles and corroded mirrors.

lying down looking up

Looking up at the ceiling in the V&A cafe, a possible submission for the lying down looking up blog.

Plagiarism and the nudibranch

Photograph(c)William Buck of Pacific Pinnacles.

The Spanish Dancer nudibranch (a type of sea slug), introduced to me by Gooseflesh, it reminded her of my shibori felt ! When I was at art college I wanted my art to be unique and not like anyone else's, although I was quite traditional in my approach - drawings and paintings of my favourite objects were my chosen theme. Then one day my tutor said to me that my work was like that of a painter called William Scott. I had never heard of him and went straight to the library to find a book about him - that was it for me - I knew then it was hopeless. Here was everything I wanted to be, already done by someone else ! He became my biggest influence.

Since then I have realised that we cannot exist alone and be autonomous in our art. And the thing that unites our work is to be found most of all in nature. I love to doodle with no forethought and I see elements of my interior self - organ-like forms and cell-like structures. I feel like I am drawing what is inside me - literally !

Since joining flickr and meeting hundreds of new artists worldwide I am amazed at how much variety and uniqueness there is out there. There is a new museum just opened in Germany called The Museum of Plagiarism . I am all for it ! I am going in search of more sea slugs ....