#Co-Creation Category
Anne Burke: Reinterpreting MoDA’s photography collections
Thousands of photographic images can be found within the books, folios and prints of MoDA’s collection. They depict various subjects, from nineteenth-century portraits to botanical images of trees, flowers and plants. They also depict museum objects such as textiles and ceramics from Europe and elsewhere. Many of these photographs were acquired by the Silver Studio […]
Ceres: Artists in Residence 2019
Textile collective ‘Ceres’ were our Artists in Residence at MoDA in 2019, bringing an eco-conscious approach to textile design and inspiration. The aim of the residency was to use objects from MoDA’s collection as a starting point for exploration of natural prints and dyes, in order to raise awareness of sustainability issues in design research. […]
Beth Cleveland: What ‘Home’ means to me
Beth Cleveland is a third year Middlesex University student on Dr Josie Barnard‘s Publishing course. Here she used her memories of wallpaper as a way of thinking about what ‘home’ means to her. Yellow and cream stripes lined the walls from the bottom of the stairs to the top. A border of painted lilies ran […]
Alice Maude-Roxby: Resist: be modern (again)
We are delighted to be lending items from MoDA’s collections to the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton for an exhibition curated by our colleague, Alice Maude-Roxby, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University. Alice has curated the exhibition with Stefanie Seibold of the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. The exhibition, Resist: be modern (again) explores the practices of […]
Ceres: Artists in Residence
We are delighted to be working with textile collective ‘Ceres’ as Artists in Residence at MoDA for the next few months. ‘Ceres‘ – Lara Mantell, Florence Hawkins and Zoë Burt – are a trio of eco-conscious designers, with expert knowledge in dyeing and printing natural dyes onto fabric and paper. They are particularly interested in […]
Dr Josie Barnard: Writing with Objects
Dr Josie Barnard on the benefits of museum objects as a starting point for writing. [Video]
Sash Guna: “Days Gone By”
A charming love story by Middlesex Creative Writing Student Sash Guna, inspired by a Silver Studio design
Nicola Stylianou: An insight into the design process
MoDA's Collections Assistant Nicola Stylianou talks about linking Silver Studio designs with their source material.
Dr Jill Stewart: A housing and health perspective on MoDA’s collections
Dr Jill Stewart of Middlesex University talks about her use of MoDA's collections in her teaching and research. [Video]
Zoe Hendon: New book about Wallpaper
Wallpaper has been the backdrop to our homes for hundreds of years Wallpaper can make a home feel modern or traditional, and is one of the easiest ways to express personal taste. It has also had an important part to play in British homes, reflecting technological, economic and social change. Whether or not you have wallpaper […]