Current project
How can we explore the National Art Library through play? VARI Creative Fellow Hafsa Jamal Makda explores the role of joy and wonder at the National Art Library, looking into the idea of research as a leisure activity and turning to the library collections as inspiration for her creative practice.
Current project
Supported by the Art Fund, I Am a Man and a Brother seeks to expand the narrative of the Wedgwood Anti-Slavery Medallion. Considering its creation, imagery and significance for today’s audiences, the project aims to rethink the medallion for the 21st century through events, displays and discussion.
Current project
Future Ecologies of Clay addresses the challenges of UK museums in collecting ephemeral, live, performative, site-specific and participatory works in clay. The project seeks to ensure that artworks in the ‘expanded field of clay’ can be identified, explored and analysed in the future.
Current project
The V&A is actively engaged in provenance research. We continually seek to learn more about the origins of objects, books and archives in our care, and to share this knowledge openly and transparently. We are particularly committed to examining colonial and Nazi-era provenance in our collections.
Current project
Research into the V&A’s collection of historic Palestinian dress, a collaboration between the V&A and the British Museum. The project will expand our knowledge of fabric and dye practices in Palestine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Current project
Using the case study of Tibetan collections in British museums, Reanimating Tibetan Heritage focuses on developing a proof-of-concept for working with communities at an intersection of theory and museum practice.
Past 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.
Past 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.
