margaret-cooter: Friday late at V&A

31 January 2009

Friday late at V&A

The theme was "Chinese new year - year of the ox". Lots of activities - including an "ox" being led round the museum. I managed to leave my camera at home, and didn't have my sketchbook either. "Crafted in food", exploring Chinese New Year traditions of food sculpture, came up with wonderful creatures made with potatoes, peppers, etc. Somehow we missed Lu Chunsheng's "simultaneously magical and hyper-real" video-films "contemplating the morphing symbols of our layered global imagination, constructing idiosyncratic narratives amidst the unstable remnants of shifting ideologies."

But making "fortune boats" with the designer-in-residence was fun -

There are possibilities for lampshades with these shapes.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 3 February 2009 at 00:29
Anonymous said...: Ferget your camera ?. it's reminde me when I went in Tokio,up at 6 o'clock.to the famous fishes marquet, fergetting my camera. I went back next morning. You should get up match erlear, at 6o'clock half of the fishes are allready sold. Very attractiv place.Bisous. Béatrice from Switzerland.; 3 February 2009 at 00:31
Anonymous said...: Dear Margaret - I wonder how to make these lovely little boats, too? Can you help please?
Thanks, Uli (Hils' friend); 7 February 2009 at 15:18

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Tuesday is Drawing Day - why not join in, wherever you are, any or every Tuesday? During the coronavirus lockdown we are looking for subjects online and around our own homes, based on the week's topic.

May 18 - fruit & veg

May 25 - pots and/or baskets

1 June - Trees/leaves/grasses

8 June - Endangered species

15 June -Silhouette

22 June - Facial features

29 June - Inside a room

6 July - Something intricate or miniature

13 July - A vehicle

20 July - Blue sky thinking

27 July - Collage

3 August - Similar/different

10 August - A poem/song

17 August - Five years ago

24 August - Portraits

31 August - How simple can you get?

Former topics (posted on blog one week later):

2020

24 March - chairs

31 March - tablecloths

7 April - Self-portrait

14 April - View from a window

21 April - View from below

28 April - Bags, purses, bins

5 May - vases, jars, pitchers (think Morandi)

12 May - holiday souvenir

19 May - view into a cupboard or drawer, or selection of objects from a cupboard or drawer

26 May - houseplants, cut flowers, garden plants

2 June - jewellery, or "treasures"

9 June - tools of the trade

16 June - from an old sketchbook

23 June - favourite shoes

30 June - a shelfie

July 7 - bridges

July 14 - seashells, pebbles, or sticks

July 21 - roofscape or streetscape

July 28 - collage

Aug 4 - crumpled fabric or paper

Aug 11 - crockery or cutlery

Aug 18 - fountains or other water

Aug 25 - strange shapes

Sep 1 - vegetables/fruit

Sep 8 - chairs (occupied)

Sep 15 - cat's eye view

Sep 22 - pointy things

Sep 29 - glasses

Oct 6 - queues

Oct 13 - ingredients

Oct 20 - hands or feet

Oct 27 - hats

Nov 3 - white elephants

Nov 10 - books

Nov 17 - door furniture

Nov 24 - keys

Dec 1 - stacks of crockery

Dec 8 - inspired by a slogan

Dec 15 - oldest utensils

Dec 22 - the colour red

xmas break!

2021

Jan 5 - from (or to) the charity shop

Jan 12 - impractical clothing

Jan 19 - a long road

Jan 26 - from my collection

Feb 2 - shadows

Feb 9 - juxtaposition

Feb 16 - statue, vase or jug/pitcher

Feb 23 - interesting texture(s)

Mar 2 - a number (eg, 7, 42, a zillion, etc)

Mar 9 - "under the weather" OR something that makes us happy

Mar 16 - jewellery

Mar 23 - a film still

Mar 30 - balance

Apr 6 - in the garden

Apr 13 - strange shapes

Apr 20 - tools of the trade

Apr 27 - birds of a feather

May 4 - houseplants

May 11 - folded or crumpled paper or fabric

May 18 - fruit & veg

May 25 - pots and/or baskets

I have had work in the "A Letter in Mind" fundraiser for the National Brain Appeal at the Oxo Gallery, every year since 2017.

"On the edge of silence" was part of CQ's "On the Edge" touring exhibition.

"Suturing", which was part of the Prescriptions exhibition, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, is now in the Beaney's library collection.

"The Daily Round" was shown in Threads - Contemporary Textiles Open at Salisbury Art Centre , 1 Oct to 12 Nov 2016

Published on BMJ Blogs - "Suffering for Art" - exhibition "Black & Blue" by Penny Clayden and Chris Day, at Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town Health Centre

"At the Edge of the Quilt", in Through Our Hands magazine:

"The Stitched Drawings of Georgie Meadows", May 2015 (pp 42-47, issue 4)

"Textile Taxidermy", November 2014 (issue 3)

"Colour me unusual" [Anna Dumitriu], August 2014 (issue 2; adapted for BMJ Blogs, published online 24 October 2014);

"Joe Cunningham's quilts", May 2014 (issue 1)

My most recent article on Ragged Cloth Cafe is "White gloves at the ready!" - the issues involved in getting people to steward at large quilt shows.

Showing online: "Walking the Museum Maze" was part of "Inspired by ..." at Morley Gallery (May-June 2014). The exhibition catalogue is online via the gallery's website.

"The Moth's Journey" (2001) was part of the Quiltart Straight and Narrow Challenge.

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“Creativity is intelligence having fun”

Albert Einstein