On Art
- Larsen Archive
- Sue Lawty's Diary
- Transition & Influence
LARSEN: a living archive
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/larsen/intro/index.cfm
LARSEN: a living archive was created in conjunction with the exhibition Jack Lenor Larsen: The Company and The Cloth at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It provides a look into a growing database that will eventually represent the Institute's entire Larsen collection. The archive can be viewed by decade, by theme (such as batik or fashion fabrics) or as a comprehensive list of fabrics.
Read Sue Lawty's on-line diary. She started it when she was Artist-in-Residence for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and continues to update it regularly:
http://www.suelawty.com/ She writes about her work, her travels, the creative process and much more. The site always includes wonderful photos -- everything from glorious views of the beach in Dorset to the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries at the V&A to sketches of designs she is researching. There are also useful links (including one to browngrotta arts!).
Sue Lawty installation at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 2005
The Transition & Influence website from the University College of the Creative Arts sets out to disseminate projects highlighting the best and the most exciting contemporary textile practice in the UK, Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, with particuar reference to textile as a both a culture specific and trans-cultural language. Learn too about the Cloth & Culture NOW exhibition and publication opeining in January 2008 at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Among the artists included are: Agneta Hobin and Merja Winquist of Finland and Sue Lawty of the UK.
http://www.transitionandinfluence.com/
