Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

I’ve held off posting this until ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up‘ had finished at the V&A. Since the show appeared to have been sold out for months, I wanted to be a spy on the wall and record it for those who couldn’t make it. I have to say that I found this exhibition…

Mandalas

Ross has been having a very busy period in the run up to Christmas. He has continued to run the winter dates of the natural dyeing course ‘Nature’s Palette’ at Stepney City Farm and our mark making and homemade brushes at Cass in Islington, both of which concluded this week. At the same time, he…

Anni Albers at Tate Modern

It is fair to say that history has not been kind to women involved in 20th Century art and design. Architects and designers such as Eileen Gray are now lauded as pioneers and yet the first time her name was mentioned on the radio was announcing her death. The women who were involved in the…

V&A Diary 1-20

Now that I am based at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I have started a new photographic project. I realised that though I have been a member of the museum for many years, I only ever used to go and see the temporary exhibitions and know little of the collection itself. I have set myself the…