Current project
Connecting Threads focuses on the influence of under-represented actors in global fashion history. It investigates the consumption of Indian fabrics by communities of the global south, amplifying the impacts of Indian producers and Caribbean consumers on global networks of design, trade, and taste.
Current project
PERCEIVE works on new ways to perceive, preserve, curate, exhibit, understand and access fragile, coloured cultural heritage. Using five scenarios, we focus on 'care', 'accessibility' and 'authenticity', promoting and expanding access to cultural heritage and its wider integration in society.
Current project
While exploring and uncovering often less visible objects from the V&A’s archives and library special collections, Creative Fellow Amina Jama reflects, through film, poetry, and collaborative making and thinking, on the complex, interwoven relationship between museum objects, body, space, and land.
Current project
Generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), eight early career research fellows are undertaking research projects, each hosted by an Independent Research Organisation (IRO). The V&A is acting as the Cohort Coordination and Development team for this fellowship scheme.
Current project
Artists Adam Moore and Laura Wilson are examining and responding to the histories and practices of making, manufacturing and materials in Newham. Based at Bow Arts’ studio in Royal Albert Wharf, they are investigating local ecologies and our relationship to nature within the urban environment.
Current project
This project funded by the Paul Mellon Centre, explores the relationships between digital art practitioners, communities, and institutions in Britain from 1960s to the present. It considers the V&A’s Computer Arts Society archive and collection as a central resource.
Current project
With the Ashmolean Museum and Newham Borough of London, the V&A investigates London’s first porcelain manufacturers in Bow and Chelsea. Our scientific analysis informs activities with local sixth-form students and provide inspiration for the next generation of makers.
Past project
Launched in March 2022, Play in the Pandemic is an online exhibition celebrating how play empowered children's resilience, well-being, and creativity during the pandemic. The exhibition showcases children's artworks, games and films across the UK that were submitted to the Play Observatory.
Current project
This AHRC-funded project, part of the Towards a National Collection programme, addresses the challenges of preserving, collecting and meaningfully sharing born-digital and hybrid digital objects in museum collections. It focuses on collection management, digital preservation, and public access.
