NEW V & A Textile Cards
Art Angels, have produced a brilliant selection of cards using textile designs from the V & A archive.
Over the past few months Art Angels have been working with the Victoria and Albert Museum on a collection of products to tie in with their forthcoming British Design retrospective exhibition, which opens in March 2012.
They have been looking at 1950s textile designs, which they feel complement their series of images by contemporary printmakers
The museum approached Chris Cordingly from Art Angels in advance of this Spring’s exhibition at the V&A, British Design 1948–2012, an exhibition which links design through from the last Olympic games held here through to the forthcoming games this Summer. Recognised for their work with contemporary artists with stylistic links to "Festival of Britain” era, Art Angels are a natural choice of partner for the Museum.
The new cards include a group of furnishing fabrics by Lucienne Day and remind one of the importance of relationships between commissioning organisations (eg., Heal’s, British Celanese, Edinburgh Weavers, Liberty) and artists.
