#Loans Category
Loan: Unearthed, Dulwich Picture Gallery (2020)
Unearthed: Photography’s Roots was the first major photography show at Dulwich Picture Gallery, bringing together over 100 works by 25 leading international photographers, many never seen before. The exhibition traced the history of photography as told through depictions of nature. It showed how the subject of nature led to key advancements in the medium […]
Loan: ‘Resist: be modern (again),’ John Hansard Gallery (2019)
Some of the items we lent to the Enid Marx exhibition at the House of Illustration last year are on the road again, this time to the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. They will be featured as part of an exhibition called ‘Resist: be modern (again), curated by Alice Maude-Roxby of Middlesex University and Stefanie Seibold of the University of Art and Design in Linz, […]
Loan: ‘Enid Marx: Print, Pattern and Popular Art’ at The House of Illustration (2018)
MoDA lends items to an exhibition at the House of Illustration in 2018 on textile designer, illustrator and printmaker Enid Marx (1902-1998).
Seika University and Oita Prefectural Museum, Japan (2017)
During summer 2017, our Katagami in Practice project made an impact overseas. An exhibition, curated by MoDA’s Zoe Hendon and Serena Dyer, was hosted by Seika University in Kyoto, and the Oita Prefectural Museum in Japan. Japan and the Silver Studio This exhibition explored the influence of Japanese katagami stencils on Western art in the […]
Loan: Hertford Museum’s ‘Kitsch’ Exhibition (2017)
A few of our wallpapers added to this examination of personal taste and why we are drawn to certain stylistic elements.
Loan: ‘The Craft of the Japanese Stencil’, ULITA (2017)
MoDA holds one of the UK’s important collections of Japanese katagami stencils. Another significant collection can be found at ULITA, part of Leeds University. In 2017, ULITA held an exhibition which celebrated the art of the Japanese stencil or ‘katagami’. These stencils were used for dyeing designs onto clothing ranging from everyday worker’s garments to the […]
Loan: ‘1950s Design & Aspiration’ at Compton Verney (2016)
In 2016 we lent seven items to an exhibition at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. These included two photographs of interiors of the period, a swatch of contemporary paint colours, and several trade catalogues of furnishings and interior design. The exhibition explored the ways in which 1950s consumers were sold an aspirational lifestyle after the deprivations […]
Loan: ‘The Cult of Beauty’, V&A (2011)
Back in 2011, the V&A‘s exhibition The Cult of Beauty explored the rise of the Aesthetic movement in Britain. Members of the Aesthetic movement – including artists such as Whistler, Rossetti and Leighton – wished to escape the ugliness they saw resulting from Britain’s Industrial Revolution; and wanted instead to create an escapist world of ‘Beauty’. […]
Loan: ‘Katagami Style’, Japan (2012)
In 2012 some of the objects from MoDA’s collections were on show at an exhibition called Katagami Style in Japan It was shown at the Mitsubishi Ichikogan Museum, Tokyo, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Mie Prefectural Art Museum. It was curated by three professors from the Japan Women’s University, the Bunka […]