13 November - 17 February 08
www.vam.ac.uk
- 1 Anne Wilson - "I move from weaving, to sound, to glass, to video and collaborative practices very liberally, rather than being defined by a specific way of making."
- 2 Susan Collis - "Craft in my mind, has that 'good' label and that's what draws me to it. To make something look bad, dirty or stained using these processes that are usually deemed to be good and worthy, to jumble up the two."
- 3 Lu Shengzhong - "The material is not important. What is more important is the process you use to create that material. This is more valuable to me."
- 4 Yoshihiro Suda - "This is an old-fashioned way of thinking, to make something so naturalistic that it looks like the original."
- 5 Catherine Bertola - "My work is about labour, investing time in a very ordinary material. I use daily domestic activities or chores such as vacuuming and dusting to make my work. The manual labour involved adds value to something that usually gets swept away."
- Annie Cattrell - "I choose the familiar, for example a cloud, so whatever language you speak there is a kind of universal understanding."
- Olu Amoda - "What we call little things are merely the causes of great things: they are the beginning, the embryo and the point of departure, which generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence."
- Naomi Filmer - "The work I make focuses on ordinary parts of the body that we never really celebrate, but actually there is nothing ordinary about them at all, they are unique to every individual."
Paper, thread, dust and nails...
This wonderful show brings together the work of eight contemporary artists who place craft at the heart of their practice.
Collectively the 8 artists use a diverse range of traditional and new technologies, from carving, sewing, welding to animation and laser etching. Working with exceptional skill and attention to detail, they use ordinary materials and are preoccupied with the everyday as a subject. Mundane or familiar things, like a paint splatter on a dust sheet, a human breath or a weed pushing up through a crack, are presented in playful and unexpected ways.
...The V&A does it again!
