2005/6 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW

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FOREWORD 05

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE V&A 08

THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 14 FUTUREPLAN 17 BUILDING THE COLLECTIONS 27

DRAWING ON DESIGN 30 EXHIBITIONS 33 EVENTS 43 LEARNING 48 ONLINE 51 COMMERCE 55

TEAMWORK 58 V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD 61 V&A THEATRE MUSEUM 65 NATIONAL PARTNERS 68 WORLD TIES 70 V&A EXHIBITIONS ON TOUR 72 SUPPORT 74

PRESS 76

APPENDICES 84 PERFORMANCE 86 FINANCES 87 SUPPORTERS 90 TRUSTEES 92

02 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 CONSERVATOR WORKING ON AN EGYPTIAN ROCK CRYSTAL CONTAINER, 975–1050, FOR THE NEW JAMEEL GALLERY OF ISLAMIC ART

CONTENTS 03 04 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 FOREWORD

For the V&A, 2005/6 was another busy year, with a full and diverse programme of exhibitions and events. The three Museum sites in London were visited by 2.2 million people, and overall the V&A reached more than 14 million people worldwide.

Touring exhibitions travelled to China and Japan, America and Australia and drew more than 900,000 visitors. The exhibition Palace and Mosque attracted record numbers to our partnership museum in Sheffield. A programme of evening public events has developed a younger audience who use the Museum in a new and different way.The V&A staged the first audio podcast from a museum, and followed up its success with a video podcast. Despite financial stringencies, some important acquisitions were made, while publications continued to enlarge the Museum’s reputation. The story of 2005/6 is colourful and wide-ranging.

The buildings themselves continue to change. FuturePlan progressed with a range of new galleries, the beautiful and popular John Madejski Garden and a new shop off the Grand Entrance. The V&A Museum of Childhood closed for a large-scale redesign that will update its facilities and provide new spaces for its unique collections. Unfortunately, the V&A Theatre Museum was unsuccessful in its bid for Heritage Lottery funding. Subsequent consultation is determining the best way forward, with the aim of enabling even more people to enjoy its important collections.

Increasingly recognised as the world’s leading museum of art and design, the V&A plays an important role in showing the best of contemporary and historic design in the UK and in promoting British design internationally. If Britain is to continue to thrive as a creative nation, recognised for its flair and expertise, the design community needs a flagship. That is the role of the V&A, which is both a source of inspiration for artists and designers and a powerhouse for recognition of excellence both in Britain and in rapidly growing economies like China and India.

This review provides a snapshot of an exciting year. None of this could have been achieved without dedicated hard-working staff and generous and supportive donors: our warmest thanks to them all.

Paula Ridley Chairman

FOREWORD 05 DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES’ ‘ELVIS’ DRESS AND JACKET

06 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 FOREWORD 07 CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE V&A

08 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 ANNA PIAGGI WITH ANDREAS KRONTHALER, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD AND JC DE CASTELBAJAC AT THE OPENING OF FASHION-OLOGY AND POPAGANDA

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE V&A 09 10 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE V&A

The V&A was established to inspire creativity. Its international collection of art and design was not simply to be admired – it was to be used. Professionals need the V&A, as do the many students and members of the public who visit the galleries, use the Archive of Art and Design and participate in the Museum’s wide-ranging programme of activities. Over 30% of the Museum’s visitors say they work, teach or study in the creative industries. The V&A is the hunting ground for Britain’s design talent.

The creative economy has changed since the mid-19th century, but its intellectual framework remains essential. The V&A is well placed to use its growing collections to celebrate a vision no less relevant today. Education and inspiration drive innovation, and the Museum continues to believe that making the best of historic and contemporary design available through its exhibitions and programmes, acquisitions and commissions is an essential contribution to sustaining the country’s leading role in creative design.

The approach is global. New technologies capture the interest of audiences worldwide. Touring exhibitions showcase British talent and build strong regional and international ties by taking the collections to audiences who might not otherwise see them. This diverse content – from the ancient Far East to Soho last week – shows visitors that design excellence takes its inspiration from across the globe. A platform for its many partners and projects, the twelve acres of the V&A’s encyclopedic building are a world resource for Britain.

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE V&A 11 OZWALD BOATENG’S FASHION IN MOTION

12 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE V&A 13 THE JOHN MADEJSKI GARDEN

14 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 THE EVOLVING MUSEUM

THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 15 16 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 FUTUREPLAN

FuturePlan is the V&A’s ambitious programme to reinvigorate the building: restoring its architecture and opening up previously hidden spaces and vistas. It is improving visitor facilities and redisplaying the collections in a beautiful and accessible way. Since the opening of the British Galleries in 2001, some 18 projects and galleries have been completed, ranging from the redisplay of the Museum’s paintings collections to the reopening of the tunnel entrance. A further 13 projects will be completed between 2006 and 2009.

HRH the Prince of Wales opened the John Madejski Garden in July 2005. The design by Kim Wilkie Associates is a calm, elegant response to the highly ornamental facades of the surrounding buildings. A central ellipse can be flooded to create a reflective pool of water, enlivened by water jet fountains and HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES WITH KIM WILKIE bands of light. With prospects for THE JOHN MADEJSKI GARDEN AT NIGHT corporate entertainment, a seasonal café and new art commissions, this Last Supper, and a rare pair of Charles II light, welcoming space has revitalised communion cups. The gallery examines the heart of the Museum, and has changing forms, beliefs and religious proved immensely popular with visitors. practice from the Middle Ages to the In September 2005, the V&A held its present day. second annual party for the Creative Industries there, sponsored by Channel 4 Earlier in the year, a new gallery and hosted by Ozwald Boateng. overlooking the Grand Entrance was restored in honour of William Frederick The Sacred Silver and Stained Glass Ruddock. Currently showcasing changing galleries opened in November 2005,thanks displays of sculpture, metalwork, ceramics to the generosity of the A.H. Whiteley and glass, this new gallery will eventually family. Designed by John Ronayne, these house the Museum’s unrivalled collection galleries have been transformed, with of European bronzes. Designed by the the illuminated stained glass in four- V&A Design Department, the space metre-high screens by Wendy Ramshaw. dramatically contrasts the small-scale Highlights include a magnificent 1705 objects on display with the grandeur German silver monstrance depicting the of the surrounding architecture.

THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 17 A new Main Shop, designed by Eva Jiricna, will be opened up to create a bright opened in March 2006. With extensive and stimulating learning environment. use of glass and light, the shop has been An integral part of the Museum, the designed to provide a contemporary centre will also function separately as retail space for a variety of designs a multipurpose arts venue, operating including jewellery, clothing and furniture at times outside normal Museum hours. as well as more traditional items such as publications and cards. The central The V&A’s collection of jewellery location leads visitors into the Dorothy ranges from antiquity to the present and Michael Hintze Sculpture Galleries day. Designed by Eva Jiricna Architects, and towards the John Madejski Garden. the new William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery will add a mezzanine Spring 2006 saw the completion of floor to increase display space.The displays the first phase of the new Dorothy will explore the history, symbolism, and Michael Hintze Sculpture Galleries. design and craftsmanship of jewellery. Some of the greatest sculptures made Set to open in early 2008, this project for British patrons and collectors – completes a run of recently refurbished including works by Canova, Bernini and galleries, including the International Roubiliac – can now be seen along the Music and Art Foundation Gallery of south side of the John Madejski Garden, Portrait Miniatures and the Sacred Silver where the original mosaic floors have and Stained Glass galleries. been restored. Phase 2, taking the story up to the middle of the 20th century, The Museum’s outstanding Medieval is due for completion by the end of 2006. and Renaissance collection spans exquisite gems to monumental The Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art opens architectural pieces. The new suite of in July 2006 to showcase highlights ten galleries, designed by MUMA, will of the V&A’s collection of more than open in November 2009 east of the 10,000 objects from the Middle East. Grand Entrance, complementing the Its centrepiece is the Ardabil carpet, British Galleries opposite. The three one of the largest and finest carpets in levels will be connected by a new lift existence. September sees the opening and stairs, vastly improving circulation of the new V&A Café which moves back in the whole south-east quadrant. to the Museum’s original refreshment A new daylit gallery will be created area, the stunning Morris, Poynter and within the interstitial spaces between Gamble Rooms. Designed by architects the gallery walls at the eastern end of MUMA, the new Café will be managed the Museum, increasing display space by V&A caterers, Benugo. by 500 square metres.

Forthcoming FuturePlan projects include the V&A’s new Sackler Education Centre, scheduled to open in September 2007. Designed by Softroom, it will more than double the current education area. The two lower floors of the Henry Cole Wing

18 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 EVA JIRICNA (EVA JIRICNA ARCHITECTS) – THE MUSEUM SHOP AND THE DOROTHY AND MICHAEL HINTZE SCULPTURE GALLERIES ANTHONY SWAIN (LEND LEASE PROJECTS) WITH OLIVER SALWAY (SOFTROOM ARCHITECTS) – THE JAMEEL GALLERY OF ISLAMIC ART GILLIAN AND STUART MCKNIGHT (MUMA ARCHITECTS) – THE NEW CAFÉ AND THE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE GALLERIES

THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 19 THE DOROTHY AND MICHAEL HINTZE SCULPTURE GALLERIES

20 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 21 THE SACRED SILVER AND STAINED GLASS GALLERIES

22 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 23 24 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 THE NEW MUSEUM SHOP

THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 25 26 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 BUILDING THE at the V&A in February – the Museum purchased seven objects, including ‘My COLLECTIONS Girl’, a porcelain figurine by Danish artist Louise Hindsgavl, and a reinforced paper Princess Diana wore her ‘Elvis’ dress when necklace by Dutch artist Nel Linssen. The she danced with John Travolta. The white V&A was also presented with ‘Cord and bolero jacket and silk evening gown by Discord One’ by British ceramicist Martin British couturier Catherine Walker are Smith, which won the Sotheby’s Prize. now in the V&A, a gift to the Museum in January from the Franklin Mint. Diana’s Three silver teapots by English designer dress was one of many new designs Christopher Dresser have transformed added to the textiles collections in the V&A’s leading collection of Dresser 2005/6. They ranged from a Tudor wool- metalwork, thanks to the generosity and-silk appliqué hanging to a group of of John Scott and others. An exceptional medieval Islamic tapestry fragments. silver-gilt cup dating from the 15th Contemporary fashion included a suit century was acquired through a from Tom Ford’s last collection for Gucci, consortium of UK museums led by the and an ensemble by Betty Jackson. V&A and the Ashmolean Museum. Auctions too threw up some rarities: Some acquisitions were prompted by a pair of 18th-century pistols made by exhibitions. A 1920s ‘Frankfurt Kitchen’ the leading gunsmith of Tipu Sultan of was bought for Modernism: Designing a Mysore (India), and an unusual Art Deco New World, as was a 1931 chair by Gerrit fire basket by Charles Sargeant Jagger, Rietveld, thanks to the Horace Goldsmith purchased with the generous help of Foundation. A tea set bearing designs the National Art Collections Fund and by Salvador Dalí and, thanks to the the Friends of the V&A. Other important American Friends of the V&A, an elegant acquisitions included the designs for ankle-length coat of black silk jersey – Kenneth Bird’s ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ a collaboration between designer Elsa campaign, purchased with the help of the Schiaparelli and Surrealist artist Jean National Art Collections Fund and others. Cocteau – were both purchased for the Surreal Things exhibition in 2007. Miniature examples of Parisian fashion were donated for the 2007 couture exhibition.

The Museum engages with the most cutting-edge creative industries. New designs welcomed into the collection included a ceramic rat by Carolein Smit; ‘Lantern 2’, a large-scale, cut-paperwork image of a window by Simon Periton; and Marilène Olvier’s ‘Self Portrait’, a print- sculpture placed in the V&A+RIBA Study Rooms. At Collect 2006 – the crafts fair MINIATURE EXAMPLE OF PARISIAN HAUTE COUTURE, organised by the Crafts Council, and held ABOUT 1950

THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 27 1920s ‘FRANKFURT KITCHEN’ ACQUIRED FOR THE EXHIBITION MODERNISM: DESIGNING A NEW WORLD

28 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 THE EVOLVING MUSEUM 29 INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT DESIGNED BY JASON BRUGES STUDIO AT FRIDAY LATE TRANSVISION

30 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 DRAWING ON DESIGN

DRAWING ON DESIGN 31 32 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 EXHIBITIONS

International Arts and Crafts (17 March – 24 July 2005) was, according to the Evening Standard,‘a brilliantly designed show, collecting together a breathtaking range of craftsmanship’. From the rarely seen to celebrated pieces by William de Morgan and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the displays showed how Arts and Crafts became the first British design movement to have widespread international influence on everything from American and Russian furniture to Japanese screens and German stained glass. Sponsored by Heal’s. Total attendance 116,100

Abbas Kiarostami: Visions of the Artist (28 April – 5 June 2005) invited visitors to walk through a magical Forest without Leaves. These ‘sculptures’ of photographed tree bark were one of several works by the Iranian artist and filmmaker, whose artistry was explored across London. The public was able to hear Kiarostami in conversation with Mike Leigh. The Museum also exhibited a photographic sequence, Trees in Snow, and premièred Kiarostami’s multimedia version of the Shi’ite passion play, Ta’ziyeh.

In Touch Me (16 June – 29 August 2005) spectators could break that strict Museum taboo and handle over 70% of the objects on display.The exhibition explored the pleasures of touch in the fabricated world, drawing out key innovations in science and design that changed the feel of things, and comparing works from the UK, Europe, USA and Japan. Specially commissioned elements included science experiments, games, INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS an immersive sensory environment ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: VISIONS OF THE ARTIST and a 1000-piece installation by TOUCH ME

DRAWING ON DESIGN 33 RichardWentworth on how mouths Foundation, the National Endowment and lips touch objects. Organised in for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation collaboration with the Wellcome Trust. for the Visual Arts and other donors. Total attendance 22,600 Total attendance 33,600

Mencap Snap! Photo Competition Import Export: Global Influences in (17 June – 7 August 2005), now in Contemporary Design (20 September – its third successful year, is open to 4 December 2005) celebrated a range of the UK’s 1.5 million children and international designers based in Britain: adults with a learning disability, their Clements Ribeiro, Tord Boontje, Eley families, friends, supporters, teachers Kishimoto, Gitta Gschwendtner, Aboud or colleagues. The winning photographs Sodano, Lubna Chowdhary. Before being documented what everyday life is like staged at the V&A, Import Export toured for people with a learning disability. to India, Australia and Finland, where Alongside the display the V&A organised companion displays – collectively entitled photography workshops specifically Global Local – explored how local design for people with a learning disability. was affected by international trends. These local voices from abroad, the sort HearWear: The Future of Hearing (26 July rarely shown outside their own countries, 2005 – 5 March 2006) showed how were then included at the V&A. In fashionably designed ‘hearwear’ could collaboration with the British Council. soon be as desirable as trendy eyewear. Total attendance 40,600 The innovative project aimed to change the way people think about hearing. ‘Spellbinding’ was what the Art Review The Royal National Institute for the called Diane Arbus Revelations (13 October Deaf, Blueprint magazine and Wolff Olins 2005 – 15 January 2006). Arbus’s iconic radically rethought the future of hearing images of 1950s and 1960s America – products and featured daring prototypes where suburban lawns meet dwarves by some of the UK’s best designers, and drag queens – have inspired including Ross Lovegrove, Priestman photographers ever since. Nearly 200 Goode, Industrial Facility and IDEO. photographs made up the largest Estimated attendance 43,500 retrospective of Arbus’s work ever assembled, and the first international Between Past and Future: New Photography show of her work in over 30 years. and Video from China (15 September The exhibition included rarely loaned 2005 – 15 January 2006) was ‘one of notebooks, personal belongings and the most important shows of the vintage prints from Arbus’s archives. moment’according to the Observer. Organised by the San Francisco Museum Twenty-eight percent of those who of Modern Art with the Estate of Diane saw it were visiting the V&A for the first Arbus. Supported by The Bank of New time. Chinese photography and video York. Total attendance 75,700 from the past decade featured an energetic, often monumental response POPAGANDA: The Fashion and Style of to the rapid changes taking place in JC de Castelbajac (1 February – 1 May China. Funded by the Smart Family 2006) featured a Campbell’s soup can

34 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 dress, a ‘fur coat’ made of teddy bears, giant Snoopy T-shirts and inflatable ponchos. Students were seen dancing in the gallery during half-term. Jean Charles de Castelbajac’s March lecture came complete with DJ and hip-hop performers for a Friday Late.

Anna Piaggi Fashion-ology (2 February – 23 April 2006) looked at the work and wardrobe of the Italian journalist and style guru, Anna Piaggi. Her doppie pagine (‘double pages’) for Italian Vogue are famed for naming the latest fashion trend. Her extensive collection of vintage couture and designer clothing, including garments by Balenciaga, Dolce & Gabanna and Poiret, was framed by drawings, photographs and testimonies by Karl Lagerfeld, David Bailey, Stephen Jones, Manolo Blahnik and others. Curated and designed by the V&A/London College of Fashion Research Fellow in Contemporary Fashion. Sponsored by Topshop. Total attendance 36,300

Many other exhibitions and displays throughout the year highlighted new ideas and aspects of the collection. Trajan Reel took a length of film the height of Trajan’s Column in Rome. Commissioned by the V&A, artist Tom Gidley’s ghostly ascent was screened alongside the V&A’s well-known cast of the monument. Young architects were promoted in AJ Corus 40 Under 40, as were their mentors in the RIBA Stirling Prize exhibition. The annual Homes & Gardens Classic Design Awards displayed the year’s best examples of future ‘classic’ designs. IMPORT EXPORT: GLOBAL INFLUENCES V&A visitors as well as judges cast their IN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN ballots on the Museum’s voting wall and JAY JOPLING AND SAM TAYLOR-WOOD MEET GUESTS AT THE OPENING on the V&A website. The V&A Christmas OF DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS Tree, designed by Kaffe Fassett, proved POPAGANDA: THE FASHION AND a much-admired seasonal treat. STYLE OF JC DE CASTELBAJAC

DRAWING ON DESIGN 35 BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA

36 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 DRAWING ON DESIGN 37 DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS

38 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 DRAWING ON DESIGN 39 40 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 ANNA PIAGGI FASHION-OLOGY

DRAWING ON DESIGN 41 42 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 EVENTS new work. African community groups – Rwandan Refugee Women’s Group, Tower Museum events create new opportunities Hamlets; Al-Hasaniya Moroccan Women’s for visitors. To increase the diverse make- Group, Kensington; and a Ghanian group up of the V&A audience, Black History from Tottenham – designed and Month drew nearly 3000 participants to modelled traditional African wedding a range of events in October, including a dresses in the Raphael gallery for Africa talk on ‘Africa through a Lens’.The annual Fashion Day.The John Madejski Garden Big Draw met Carnival along Exhibition was transformed with a Marrakesh tea Road, where the V&A and other museums room, a Dakar DJ music bar and African had the street buzzing with art workshops, jugglers and drummers. Nearly 90% of performance and music.Over 50 activities visitors said the events encouraged engaged an estimated 30,000 visitors. creativity and increased their awareness The day included African and Caribbean of black and ethnic minorities. community groups from across London in a vibrant procession of carnival costumes. Outreach initiatives have included participation at the Lord Mayor’s Mela The V&A’s inclusion strategy explored at Gunnersbury Park. Photographs taken ‘hidden histories’ within the collection at the event toured to Bangalore and and worked with community groups to Chennai in India, and one was selected develop programmes that explore their for the Schweppes Photographic Portrait heritage. An ongoing audit of objects Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. relevant to black history will support the In January 2006, the V&A celebrated Museum’s commemoration of the Chinese New Year with an exhibition of abolition of the slave trade in 2007.Events paintings by Hu Jinxiong, a well-known for the opening of the Sacred Silver and Guangzhou artist. Performers included Stained Glass galleries drew on Christian the Shaolin Temple Monks doing Kung Fu, and Jewish culture via storytelling, puppet the Yaogu Dance Troupe of lady drummers, shows, a mummers’ play, music workshops and some mesmerising noodle-pulling and Israeli folk dancing. Such events form by Lou Yuk Kam. Over 14,000 people part of the Museum’s Capacity Building attended the two-day event. and Cultural Ownership Project, which received a £1 million grant from the The V&A Illustration Awards promote Heritage Lottery Fund. Diversification contemporary illustration. The annual of the Museum workforce includes showcase of award-winning work employment opportunities for people includes major prizes for book, book of different backgrounds such as the cover and editorial illustration, plus a Inspire curatorial fellowship and the newly introduced category for Student Global Graduates work experience Illustrator that attracted more than 200 scheme for young people. submissions. Lectures and open days included talks for Architecture Week, Africa 05 was celebrated across the a symposium on Diane Arbus in country.V&A events included Africa Music December and one on China Live that Day and an African Bazaar where 20 looked at the relationship between contemporary artists exhibited and sold photography and performance art.

DRAWING ON DESIGN 43 Friday Late is now in its sixth year. Its archive. Celebrating 20 years in fashion popularity with both the public and with a party afterwards, Boateng said, industry professionals is undiminished, ‘It felt so good...I knew it was my best with an average visitor attendance of work.’The British Fashion Awards were 2500. The late-night events included held at the V&A for the second year Adventures in Two Dimensions celebrating running. The V&A Fashion Award for hand-crafted graphics and illustration Outstanding Lifetime Achievement with Daisy de Villeneuve and other went to journalist Suzy Menkes of the contemporary designers. Spectres International Herald Tribune who praised launched Shelley Fox’s fashion collection, the V&A for setting ‘the standard so choreographed specially for the Morris, high with your brilliantly conceived Poynter and Gamble Rooms with art and beautifully curated exhibitions’. direction by Showstudio. Touch This had visitors making plaster casts, while Art The Village Fete, the Museum’s highly & Money presented a provocative night successful annual celebration of the best with performances by Mad for Real of Britain’s young design talent, included alongside a debate chaired by Louisa åbäke, Johnson Banks, Atelier/Quentin Buck. Nigerian artist Dilomprizulike, Newark and Michael Marriott. Displays performance poet Tuggstar and Kaago, were surrounded by a whirl of stylish, a west African troupe of dancers and quirky and imaginative events and musicians, all performed at Africa 05. games, creating Britain’s most unusual China set performances from artists from take on the traditional outdoor fete. Over Beijing alongside film screenings and 3500 people attended over two days. installations. Born Free in conjunction with PSP (PlayStation® Portable) The Exhibition Road Project is a vitally commissioned new work from the most important scheme to animate the public exciting figures working in interactive realm in South Kensington and improve lighting and animation. The evening the journey from the Underground included a specially commissioned station experienced by most of the literary trail around the V&A. ten million who visit each year. The £35 million scheme, due for completion The seventh year of Fashion in Motion, in 2009, has been designed by architects sponsored by Istituto Marangoni, brought Dixon Jones. The project is supported by live catwalk fashion to the beautiful the DCMS, Royal Borough of Kensington backdrop of the Raphael Court. Live and Chelsea and Transport for London, transmissions of the shows are relayed and works closely with the Exhibition in the V&A’s Grand Entrance to the Road Cultural Group, in which the V&A several thousand visitors who attend – has played a leading role. Events so far professionals, students, celebrities, guests have included the Exhibition Road Music – in addition to 450 guests in the gallery Day in June, which Time Out said was itself. Those featured in 2005/6 included ‘not to be missed’. Over 70 multicultural Gianfranco Ferré, Anne Valérie Hash and musical acts performed to more than Ozwald Boateng, who selected outfits 8000 people. Media coverage was from his Spring/Summer and Givenchy extensive. The event will be repeated collections as well as highlights from his in 2006.

44 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 CHINESE NEW YEAR CHINESE NEW YEAR CHINESE NEW YEAR OZWALD BOATENG’S FRIDAY LATE CHINA FRIDAY LATE CHINA FASHION IN MOTION FRIDAY LATE CHINA FRIDAY LATE BORN FREE FRIDAY LATE CHINA FRIDAY LATE COLLAGE/ FRIDAY LATE COLLAGE/ FRIDAY LATE BORN FREE REPORTAGE REPORTAGE FRIDAY LATE COLLAGE/ V&A ILLUSTRATION AWARDS VILLAGE FETE REPORTAGE

DRAWING ON DESIGN 45 PERFORMANCE ARTIST ZHU MING IN THE GAMBLE ROOM AT FRIDAY LATE CHINA

46 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 DRAWING ON DESIGN 47 LEARNING Design’ partnership with the University of Brighton, Royal College of Art and RIBA Children and young people are the set up programmes to begin in 2006. creative industries professionals of the future. The V&A’s learning programmes Inspired by...invited part-time adult look to engage and delight these budding learners of art and design to make work talents. In the summer Create! focused inspired by the V&A collections: 20% on 11- to 18-year-olds learning fashion of entrants were unemployed and 20% illustration and garment construction. pensioners. The launch included fashions Digital design workshops linked to created and modelled by young people the Diane Arbus exhibition explored at risk of homelessness, a project photomontage and digital manipulation. developed with Capital A housing The half-term photo-keyring event drew support, Newham. Creative workshops 1400 family visitors to use digital cameras for people with learning difficulties and to design a key fob. Gallery teaching mental health service users included sessions took a wide range of historic taking photographs linked to the Diane and cross-cultural topics to spark creative Arbus and Mencap exhibitions, and projects back at school. writing poems inspired by the V&A collections. BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Touch’ Image and Identity continued its work praised the V&A for its touch tours with schools and vulnerable young and object handling: among national people cared for by the children’s charity museums the V&A has ‘the most NCH. Increased self-esteem through ambitious programme...allowing blind engagement with creative practice and and partially sighted people or disabled museum collections has been significant people really to integrate into the for many of the participants:‘I’ve learnt mainstream of the visual experience’. that everyone’s identity and culture The language and literacy programme for mixes in some way, you don’t need adult ESOL students (English for Speakers to be ashamed of who you are,’ said of Other Languages) including refugees one Brentside pupil. Resource Boxes on helped over 1000 people in 2005/6. graphics, advertising, photojournalism and furniture design provided inspirational material for students of all ages. Linked to the National Curriculum, the resources are available in the Study Rooms and online.

Students in Further and Higher Education made up 49% of participants at V&A conferences and symposia. Final-year BA spatial design students worked with the V&A to produce detailed design models for an exhibition and set designs. New staff hired for the Museum’s ‘Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning: PRINTS AND DRAWINGS STUDY ROOM

48 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 Design history and practice informed Architecture Partnership entered its lectures, debates and other events for third year with an education programme adults. Study days such as Design for investigating the relationship between Knitting in October united practising historic collections and contemporary craftspeople with industry experts. architectural practice. Architecture and... Global Design was a public debate the Moving Image brought together examining how design crosses cultures: architects, theorists and artists to explore three quarters of participants were new kinds of architectural communication, creative industries practitioners. while an international conference, A Georgian Interior conference in Ascribing Value, debated the value of November discussed the survival architectural drawings for architects, of 18th-century interior style in the archivists and others. modern era. The Sacred Silver conference included presentations from patrons The V&A/Royal College of Art Post- and silversmith Rod Kelly, who made graduate Programmes in the History a bible cover for the V&A’s new Sacred of Design and the Decorative Arts and Silver and Stained Glass galleries. Conservation continue to produce graduates who take up influential roles Fashion Fiction, one of the Talking Design in art and design education, curation, interviews, discussed how fashion is conservation and the creative economy. mythologised through various forms The V&A Research Department hosts of writing. With a focus on contemporary fellowships with a number of schools, debates related to the arts, Style Lounge including the London College of Fashion continued to draw in a mixture of and the University of the West of students and creative industries England. Projects have included the professionals. In May, Monsieur Style pioneering National Electronic and Video Lounge discussed menswear and Archive of the Crafts, where prominent masculinity. Spectacle Style Lounge contemporary practitioners are recorded at the Theatre Museum asked what discussing their work in relation to key spectacle meant today. Speakers were Museum objects. In 2006 the V&A was followed by a cabaret that included a awarded ‘analogue status’ by the Arts contortionist and a levitating magician. and Humanities Research Council, Specialist make-up students from a major funder of university-based Hounslow provided a side-show of research, enabling it to bid independently characters including a glamorous in areas of intellectual urgency for the bearded lady. creative industries.

The annual summer school offered Access to the Archive of Art and Design courses in textile design. In spring 2006 was extended with longer opening hours a new programme of practical art courses at South Kensington and Blythe House. on Islamic and South Asian art began, The archive supported vocational training teaching skills from mirror-work to mosaic. for textile design students from Chelsea Demonstrations in the galleries revealed College of Art and others, and Royal to visitors techniques such as reserve College of Art projects in practical design dyeing and silver piercing. The V&A+RIBA in collaboration with Heal’s.

DRAWING ON DESIGN 49 50 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 ONLINE use of material already online. Webquests for schools will provide guided tours Technological advances are central to the through sites to answer curriculum- future of museums. They help maintain related questions. Adult learners will present collections and speak to the rapidly develop their own online creative shifting demands of new audiences. From journeys. The V&A leads world museums podcasts to interactive tile design, the V&A in web participation, with so much kept abreast of changing museum life. material on its sites created by visitors.

The web year was formidably successful, Technology pervades the modern with over 10 million visits to the V&A museum. The V&A Conservation Journal website (compared with 6.5 million is published online. Record systems assist last year). There were blogs, podcasts both internal work and external access: and downloads for avid web users; over 21,000 records are now available interviews with contemporary to the public through Collections practitioners; and experiments in real- Online. Digital imaging has not just time chat with curators. Makers can revolutionised information systems, but upload examples of their work, a factor become an artform itself. The donation that caused online ripples:‘Get your of 200 computer-generated artworks skates on,’ insisted a contributor to the to the Museum via the American Friends Mason Dixon weblog,‘and go over to the of the V&A provided a rare array of prints, Victoria and Albert Museum’s website photographs and drawings from the where you will see, among the precious 1950s to the 1990s. artefacts painstakingly catalogued therein, my little ole knitting.’ Every Object Tells a Story is an online venture to get the public and museum The V&A is a central design portal for staff to share stories about objects they contact between creative communities. treasure. Quirky, poignant, compelling, Artist-in-residence Sue Lawty’s blog its collection at www.everyobject.net attracted related images from New has grown to several thousand personal Zealand, while the International Arts histories. The interactive project is funded and Crafts site displayed over 14,000 by Culture Online as a partnership contributors’ new tile designs. Exhibition between the V&A, Channel 4, Ultralab sites and new galleries presented their and museums in Tyne & Wear, Brighton displays to a wider, international & Hove and Birmingham. A text-message audience. The Diane Arbus exhibition trail invited visitors to text via mobile website alone attracted more than phone their thoughts about V&A exhibits 100,000 hits. Innovative online expertise directly to the Every Object website. included the detailed examination of The first audio podcast in a UK museum clothes, 3D modelling and a specialised presented museum staff talking about section on pockets on the fashion pages. works in the Paintings gallery. It was followed by a pioneering video podcast – The Treasury Invest to Save scheme awarded also the first by a UK museum – of short the V&A £1.75 million to run a consortium films created in response to a nationwide of ten national museums to improve the competition to celebrate the project.

DRAWING ON DESIGN 51 NATIONAL ART LIBRARY V&A WEBSITE WITH ONLINE FAMILY EVENTS NEWSLETTER

52 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 DRAWING ON DESIGN 53 54 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 COMMERCE provides an important showcase for the Crafts Council which opened with In 1860 Henry Cole set out how the a display of stoneware by Rupert Spira. display of art and design could benefit manufacturing and the UK economy. Licensing builds relationships with the ‘The first result of this kind of exhibition,’ creative and manufacturing industries he pronounced,‘is to make the public by providing design resources from hunger after objects; I think then they within the V&A archives and managing go to the china shops and say,“We the V&A brand commercially. Licensed do not like this or that; we have seen designs find a wider market than the something prettier at the South Museum itself could provide. Other Kensington Museum” and the shop- commercial support to the Museum keeper, who knows his own interest, is derived from V&A Corporate Events, repeats that to the manufacturer, and V&A Publications and V&A Images, the manufacturer, instigated by that who supply images to advertising demand, produces the article.’ and media agencies, graphic designers, publishers and magazines. A new The Museum’s trading arm, V&A website, vandaimages.co.uk, provides Enterprises (VAE), works closely with access to an increasing number creative industries to draw on the of images. V&A’s pedigree as a source of inspiration and authority in design. The V&A brand is both a financial support to the Museum and a sensitive exponent of its reputation.

The new Main Shop, designed by Eva Jiricna, has delivered a flexible retail space appropriate to the Museum. Exquisite textile jewellery by Japanese designers SuperNeedle is available alongside jars of sequins and beads. Ceramics by iconic Modernist designer Eva Zeisal can be found as well as plasticene. The aim is to celebrate creativity in all its forms.

New ranges have been commissioned to highlight the link between the Museum’s collections and contemporary design. Under the banner ‘Cherry on the Cake’, leading designers such as Bill Amberg, Neisha Crosland, Jonathan Saunders and Timorous Beasties have produced tiles, T-shirts, hats, belts, rings, clocks and more inspired by the V&A. The new shop

DRAWING ON DESIGN 55 MIRROR BY GRAPHIC THOUGHT FACILITY – ONE OF A SERIES OF COMMISSIONS FOR THE NEW SHOP

56 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 DRAWING ON DESIGN 57 TEAMWORK

58 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 ARCHITECTS CARUSO ST JOHN AT THE V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD

TEAMWORK 59 60 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 V&A MUSEUM Cornelia Parker, inspired by the Museum’s collection, was imaginatively integrated OF CHILDHOOD into the permanent displays, giving children a more immediate approach V&A Museums includes the V&A to contemporary art. Other artist-led Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, projects involved local groups including and the V&A Theatre Museum in Covent ESOL students (English for Speakers Garden. It was an exciting year for the of Other Languages), young refugees V&A Museum of Childhood as it entered awaiting placement in mainstream the second phase of its redesign and education, Bangladeshi women, and extension. The Museum closed at the children from school and homework clubs. end of October and is due to reopen in November 2006. Funded by the In the summer, the Museum joined Culture Heritage Lottery Fund and a range of Online to launch Playground Fun, an public and private donors, the £4.7 million online resource for children and schools. redevelopment includes a striking new The initiative encourages children to front entrance, considerably improved revisit traditional playground games and visitor facilities and access, an expanded create new ones for the site. During the learning centre and several new galleries, school holidays, the Museum employed including Moving Toys, focusing on the young adults to run workshops for children forces and technology that make toys in the Museum grounds and began move, and Creativity, which explores a series of training sessions for teachers. the creative process. During closure, the Museum’s outreach programme will offer daily sessions Visitor numbers for the year were accommodating 30 children each to atypical, affected as they were by the schools in east and west London. All were London bombings and the temporary fully booked by January 2006 and will closure of the Museum. Yet the Museum’s reach a total of 6500 pupils. Almost half reach into the rest of the UK grew of the schools booking the sessions had significantly. Must-have Toys, its award- not previously visited the Museum. winning exhibition, toured to Carlisle, Bristol, Reading and Hartlepool. It is A new corporate identity for the new hoped that more than 100,000 regional Museum was launched. The name V&A visitors will have seen the exhibition Museum of Childhood was adopted, as when it concludes its tour in South was a bold new visual identity.The Shields. Khel: Toys from India also joined Museum also launched its new website, the touring programme. It travels to www.museumofchildhood.org.uk. A Oldham, Hartlepool and Cheltenham crucial presence for the Museum during in 2006/7. its closure, the site incorporates an online diary about the redevelopment, regular In London the Museum drew on its local progress reports and images from staff creative industries talent with a hugely and partners, a guide to the Museum’s successful contemporary art exhibition, collections, an archive of past exhibitions Think & Wonder,Wonder & Think. Work and community projects, and a range from artists such as Lali Chetwynd and of downloadable activities for children.

TEAMWORK 61 CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP AT THE V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD

62 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 TEAMWORK 63 64 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 V&A THEATRE MUSEUM Shaping. The project helps black and ethnic minority communities examine The V&A Theatre Museum had 166,700 how their theatrical heritage has been visitors in 2005/6. Numbers for the recorded. Audience development also Museum website rose steadily, with well engaged local long-term mental health over a million visits recorded over the users, marginalised youth and visually year. The popular PeoplePlayUK e-learning impaired and deaf young people. site was integrated into the main Museum website, and the Museum took Inside Theatreland continued to explore ownership of the TheatreVoice website. performance past and present. Highlights A new interactive online News&Views included Cabaret Confidential, the service was also launched. Comedy of Coward festival, and the Art of Tease season on burlesque. The The year saw a busy programme of new Museum’s renovated Studio Theatre exhibitions. Glenda Jackson, Jude Law kicked off its first season in mid-September, and Judi Dench were among the actors with the Courtyard Theatre presenting photographed in The Dressing Room. three popular productions. The Trial of Celebrating Peter Brook was an evolving Henry Irving was so successful that it installation asking, as Brook himself will be returning with a view to attracting continues to do:What is theatre? Hirschfeld’s further production opportunities.The Brits on Broadway gave a satirical take on Museum also opened its new study British theatre. Oliver Messel: Making and rooms at Blythe House. The relocation Doing was an interactive display about provides significant improvements for Britain’s leading stage designer of the public access, with all research materials mid-20th century. The Irving Centenary now housed at the same location. marked the 100-year anniversary of the death of the great Victorian actor- A major disappointment was the failure manager Henry Irving. Unleashing Britain to secure Heritage Lottery funding for spotlit ten dramatic years that saw plays redevelopment of the display, education such as Waiting for Godot and Look Back and public amenities. This raised in Anger shape and shock postwar Britain. questions about the longer-term sustainability of operations in Covent Museum activities remained popular: Garden. The consultation document guided tours, theatrical make-up discussed several options, including demonstrations, costume workshops and relocating the permanent displays special children’s events. The education to the main V&A building in South programme ran at near capacity, with Kensington, or continuing in Covent 16,000 bookings for school and other Garden in partnership with a major groups. A successful new outreach performing arts organisation such as programme established partnerships the Royal Opera House. The Trustees with schools in Brent and Essex. This are reviewing options and a decision culminated in Awakening the Beauty, is expected in autumn 2006. a collaboration to recreate Oliver Messel’s drawings for Sleeping Beauty. In November the Museum launched Watching, Making,

TEAMWORK 65 UNLEASHING BRITAIN – JOE ORTON WORKSHOP WITH KENNETH CRANHAM AT THE V&A THEATRE MUSEUM

66 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 TEAMWORK 67 NATIONAL PARTNERS Loans are a key link across the UK, taking the collection to as wide an audience as The V&A’s national work shares not possible. In addition to 1778 long-term only its outstanding collections, but its loans across the country, the year also expertise and creative contacts. While saw over 800 short-term loans nationally. the Museum works with organisations The specific interests of regional venues around the country, it has five designated highlight the work of artists and UK partners – Birmingham Museums manufacturers who might not otherwise and Art Gallery, Brighton & Hove Galleries be featured, such as John Sell Cotman and Museums, Manchester City Galleries, at the Bowes Museum and Harewood Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, House. Archival material is likewise and Tyne & Wear Museums. With them sought to explain the creative process. it cooperates on exhibitions, staff For the Design Museum’s Eileen Gray development and high-profile learning retrospective, the V&A provided projects such as Image and Identity and preliminary sketches, designs and even Every Object Tells a Story. Support includes invoices belonging to Gray. Similarly, championing acquisitions for regional the British Museum borrowed Samuel museums, such as the drive to purchase Palmer’s etching and engraving tools the rare medieval bronze Wenlok jug and his spectacles from the V&A. The for the Luton Museum, and conserving V&A print collection featured in an objects in situ, such as the tapestries exhibition at the Royal Academy, while and furniture at Houghton Hall. other exhibition loans travelled both nationally and internationally to Tate The V&A participates in Subject Liverpool and elsewhere. Specialist Networks across the country ranging from Japanese metalwork to The Purchase Grant Fund for acquisitions contemporary design. A recent survey is managed by the V&A with funding reported significant staff links with from the Museums, Libraries and Archives 146 UK universities and colleges, as Council (MLA). The programme provides well as 17 overseas. Conferences such advice as well as financial support as Dress and Jewellery: The Fusion of to museums, galleries, archives and Fabric and Gem held in July 2005 specialist libraries throughout England attracted colleagues from across the and Wales. The 188 grants awarded in country. Conservation roadshows with 2005/6 enabled the purchase of objects the Royal Society of Chemists drew over valued at just under £4 million. Purchases 400 participants in Milton Keynes and included a Benjamin Britten score for Tilbury.Writing projects such as Memory the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh; Maps, a joint MA with the University non-conformist silver for Gloucester of Essex focusing on the landscape of City Museum; a Sean Scully painting Essex and Suffolk, nurture tomorrow’s for Abott Hall, Kendal; and a cinema creativity. Students will publish their poster for Ivanhoe filmed at Chepstow work on a designated V&A website and Castle in 1913 for the Monmouth major writers will be invited to respond Museums Service. as well to drawings, paintings and photographs in the V&A’s collections.

68 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 NICK DODD, FADY JAMEEL, DAVID LAMMY MP AND MARK JONES AT PALACE AND MOSQUE IN SHEFFIELD

TEAMWORK 69 WORLD TIES Global partnerships ranged from collaborative exhibitions – such as The V&A’s international strategy links Jean Bourdichon’s rare Renaissance the global creative economy to the manuscript miniatures, displayed in world’s leading museum of art and conjunction with the Getty, the British design. The Museum’s wide-ranging Library and other major lenders – international touring exhibitions are to international loans. In 2005/6, supported by a host of other cross- approximately 3000 V&A objects were border achievements via its website, on long- and short-term loan to 365 publications, loans and intellectual ties. venues throughout the world. Jewels for The Castellani & Italian Archeological V&A publications, which are sold world- Jewellery were shown in New York, wide, celebrated the creative industries Rome and London. Posters and in 2005/6. The V&A Contemporary photographs for Summer of Love: Art range examined the latest in product of the Psychedelic Era travelled from design with Electric Dreams, design for Liverpool to Frankfurt and Vienna. the digital age, and Interplay, designers Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, working on interactive design. Responsive 1780–1830 contained 34 Japanese Environments and Transport Design watercolours from the V&A which will follow, recognising the link were shown at the British Museum between the V&A’s design authority before touring to Osaka and Tokyo and practical product design in today’s market. Fashion publications included For The Avant-garde Stage, conservators Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail worked on 97 stunning costume designs and translations of Vivienne Westwood and original costumes from the Ballets into Japanese, Chinese and German. Russes for display in Italy. Oil sketches Black Style also sold well internationally, and watercolours by Constable, including while Hair and Fashion was acclaimed Salisbury Cathedral, joined works from throughout the design press. Prints the British Museum, Tate, Royal Academy, Now: Directions and Definitions included National Galleries of Scotland, Manchester recent works acquired for the V&A, Art Gallery and Birmingham Art Gallery often through direct contact with for Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea the artists. The Painted World surveyed and Sky at the National Gallery of Art, the history of painting across the Canberra and Te Papa in New Zealand. V&A’s collections. It was an intensive year for projects Television provided airing of a different involving China. V&A Enterprises sort. The V&A’s Constable drawings contributed to a forum on ‘managing featured in Andrew Graham-Dixon’s and exploiting your image assets’ talked-about BBC 2 series The Secret of organised by the Capital Museum, Drawing, while E.H. Shepard’s illustrations Beijing and the Guangdong Museum. for Winnie the Pooh appeared on MTV In June, the V&A was the only western and Nippon Television. The V&A+RIBA museum represented at the opening Study Room featured in a Top of the Class of the China Three Gorges Museum, BBC documentary about the scheme. an impressive art, archeology, social

70 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 and historical facility in Chongqing in the southwest province of Sichuan. In September the Director travelled to Beijing with Prime Minister Tony Blair whose visit was intended to strengthen cultural links between the UK and China.

The V&A joined an international forum at the Beijing World Art Museum in October to look at introducing non- Chinese art to Chinese museums. In November, loans to the high-profile Royal Academy exhibition, China: The Three Emperors, drew attention to the V&A’s fine Qing dynasty collection. Future links include China Design Now, a major exhibition to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and History of Expo, an exhibition drawing on the V&A’s close connections to the international exhibition movement, planned with the Shanghai authorities and the Paris-based Bureau of International Expositions, as part of Expo 2010. A Chinese-language visitor map and extensive web information in Chinese have been launched for the increasing number of Chinese visitors to the V&A.

The year also witnessed the implementation of the Museum’s international strategy with India. This is a concerted plan to ensure that both government and museums in India are aware of the V&A’s Indian collections and its staff expertise. Key partners include the newly restored Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai and prospective collaborators include the Meherangarh Fort, Jodhpur and centres of contemporary design in Ahmedabad and Bangalore. V&A PUBLICATIONS: INTERPLAY, ELECTRIC DREAMS, The V&A has arranged two exhibitions BLACK STYLE, NINETEENTH-CENTURY FASHION IN DETAIL, HAIR AND FASHION, THE PAINTED WORLD, to travel to the Prince of Wales Museum PRINTS NOW AND VIVIENNE WESTWOOD IN JAPANESE in Mumbai in 2007/8 as well as a series RARE RENAISSANCE MINIATURES of staff exchanges. BY JEAN BOURDICHON

TEAMWORK 71 V&A EXHIBITIONS partnership between museums has provided an opportunity to see pieces ON TOUR that rarely leave London.’ Both the tour and new gallery were made possible Increasingly the V&A is taking its by a donation from Hartwell plc, part collections across the world. More of the Abdul Latif Jameel Group. than 900,000 visitors saw V&A touring exhibitions in 2005/6. The hugely Sheffield was not the only UK venue for popular Art Deco 1910–1939 travelled V&A exhibitions. Black British Style began in a slightly smaller version to several its UK tour in 2005. Looking at fashion cities in Japan in 2005. Over a million and styling across all aspects of black visitors have now seen this exhibition life and culture in Britain over the past worldwide. 50 years, the exhibition was shown at Manchester Art Gallery and Cartwright Vivienne Westwood has been seen by Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. In 2006 it will nearly half a million visitors overseas. travel to Sunderland, Birmingham and Success in Australia was followed by Leicester. The tour has been supported large audiences in China and Japan. In by a National Touring Grant from Arts Taipei, where it was voted Best Exhibition Council England. Cinema India: The Art in Taiwan (2005) by the magazine Artist, of Bollywood travelled to Leicester and an amazing 145,000 visitors attended Sunderland. The V&A’s exhibition on in just seven weeks. The exhibition the photographer Garry Fabian Miller opened in Düsseldorf in February 2006, was shown in the Mead Art Gallery, and will travel to Bangkok and San Warwickshire. The Radiant Buddha, Francisco in 2006/7. International Arts featuring a rare bronze Indian sculpture and Crafts travelled to Indianapolis (‘a acquired jointly with the British Museum, must see’, proclaimed the Indianapolis continued to tour the country, travelling Herald) and San Francisco (‘a revelation’, to Leicester and Exeter. judged the San José Mercury News).

While preparations were underway for the new Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, Palace and Mosque toured 120 highlights from the V&A’s Islamic Middle East collection. After opening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the exhibition attracted nearly 100,000 visitors at the Kimbell Art Gallery, Texas and Tokyo’s Setagaya Art Museum. It then travelled to the Sheffield Millennium Galleries in January 2006. ‘Timely and stunning,’ said The Times, and Minister for Culture David Lammy concluded:‘Palace and Mosque is a stunning exhibition...This imaginative

72 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 BLACK BRITISH STYLE IN SHEFFIELD VIVIENNE WESTWOOD IN SHANGHAI PALACE AND MOSQUE IN TEXAS

TEAMWORK 73 SUPPORT Corporate sponsorship at the V&A increased significantly in 2005/6, with This year has seen some remarkable many events attracting first-time successes at the V&A made possible sponsors. The Museum is very grateful by the extraordinary generosity of our to the following companies for their supporters. Alongside vital funding support of our exhibitions and events: for programming, acquisitions and Heal’s for International Arts and Crafts; scholarship, the V&A would like to The Bank of New York for Diane Arbus acknowledge its supporters’ role in Revelations; Topshop for Anna Piaggi realising the latest stages of FuturePlan. Fashion-ology; PSP (PlayStation® The John Madejski Garden opened in July Portable) for the Friday Late Born Free; 2005; in November, the Sacred Silver and and Istituto Marangoni for Fashion Stained Glass galleries opened, thanks in Motion. The Corporate Membership to the longstanding generosity of the scheme continues to build. Members A.H. Whiteley family. 2006 sees the include Bloomberg, JPMorgan, Skanska, openings of the Dorothy and Michael Lloyds TSB Private Banking, Ernst Hintze Sculpture Galleries and the & Young, Baglioni Hotels, Morgan Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art. In 2007 the Stanley, Pearson, John Lewis, American Sackler Education Centre will open, and Express, UBS and Nomura. in 2008 the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery will be complete. The Museum also benefited this year from many generous legacies, and the With so many successes and new V&A would like to take this opportunity galleries complete, the Museum has to thank all legacy donors and their shifted the focus of its fundraising to families for remembering the Museum its flagship project, the Medieval and in this way.The Museum would also like Renaissance Galleries. The V&A is grateful to thank everyone who has given to the to the lead donors and to the Heritage Annual Fund, an ongoing programme Lottery Fund, which in July 2005 awarded of support for FuturePlan. a Stage 1 pass for £9.75 million towards this project. The role of the V&A’s membership programmes is vital. Management of For its work over the last year, the V&A Membership (and the Membership Museum is indebted to charitable trusts, team) moved to the Development foundations and public-sector grant- Department this year and a new team giving bodies. The National Heritage was created, comprising Membership, Memorial Fund and the National Art Patrons, Legacies and the Annual Fund. Collections Fund continued to help the The Museum continues to work closely V&A with acquisitions, including a silver with the trustees of the Friends of the beaker from the collection of Sir Ernest V&A, although all administration is now Cassel and designs for the Canterbury in-house. The Friends of the V&A have font. Arts Council England once again continued their generous support to assisted with a number of V&A the Museum, funding scholarships, programmes, most recently with a grant curatorial exchanges, displays and for contemporary art commissions. new acquisitions.

74 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 Both Patrons and Members continued to enjoy a highly varied programme of events. Highlights this year included talks by Manolo Blahnik,William Yeoward, Lulu Guinness, Michael Palin and Antonio Carluccio and exclusive behind-the-scenes events, including a private view of the glass collection and a rooftop tour of the Museum.

Further support in 2005 came through the American Friends of the V&A (AFV&A). Following its mission to foster closer ties between Americans and the V&A, the AFV&A continues to host events for American supporters who wish to become more involved with the Museum. A lecture by the curator of the forthcoming exhibition, Surreal Things, was held in June 2005, generously supported by the Parnassus Foundation. The programme continues with exclusive events in the USA and the UK for American supporters.

Several large gifts in kind were received by the AFV&A. These included an important collection of propaganda posters given to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko, and a collection of 98 contemporary silver servers from Professor B.S. Rabinovitch. The AFV&A also awarded grants to the V&A to support a variety of projects from the Kiarostami Festival and the Christopher Dresser exhibition to the acquisition of a Schiaparelli coat as well as three Dresser teapots.

SILVER TEAPOT BY CHRISTOPHER DRESSER, 1879

TEAMWORK 75 76 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 PRESS

‘COMBINING RESPECT FOR THE PAST WITH A REAL SENSE OF WHAT IS NEW AND EXCITING, THE JOHN MADEJSKI GARDEN EPITOMISES THE CLARITY OF VISION THAT IS INCREASINGLY MAKING THE V&A ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING MUSEUMS IN LONDON.’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JOHN MADEJSKI GARDEN

PRESS 77 78 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 ‘THE BEST PLACE TO GET ‘AN ELEGANT, LIGHT- SUCH A COLOUR BOOST FLOODED ENFILADE... IS AT THE NEW STAINED- THE FLOOD OF LIGHT GLASS DISPLAY AT THE ILLUMINATES THE V&A.’ STATUES’ FINE DETAIL... THE EVENING STANDARD THIS ENTICING DISPLAY... SACRED SILVER AND STAINED WILL TELL THE STORY GLASS GALLERIES OF BRITISH SCULPTURE.’ THE TIMES DOROTHY AND MICHAEL HINTZE SCULPTURE GALLERIES

PRESS 79 ‘THE WEALTH OF ISLAMIC ART TREASURES HAS BEEN OBSCURED BY THE WAR ON TERROR. A NEW EXHIBITION IS BOTH TIMELY AND STUNNING.’ ‘PALACE AND MOSQUE, THE V&A DISPLAY OF ARTISTIC BRILLIANCE... WENT ON TO TEXAS AND JAPAN, DRAWING MORE THAN 250,000 VISITORS.’ ‘THE V&A SHOW IS STILL A REVELATION.’ THE TIMES PALACE AND MOSQUE IN SHEFFIELD

80 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 PRESS 81 82 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 ‘SOME OF THE MOST REMARKABLE, POIGNANT AND BEGUILINGLY WEIRD PHOTOGRAPHS EVER TAKEN.’ THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS ‘AN INTERESTING SHOW, ONE THAT’S LIKELY TO OVERTURN SOME PREJUDICES.’ THE INDEPENDENT BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FROM CHINA

PRESS 83 APPENDICES

IMPORT EXPORT: GLOBAL INFLUENCES IN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

84 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 APPENDICES 85 PERFORMANCE STATISTICS

Funding Agreement performance since 2002/3 (excluding Wellington Museum)

2002/3 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6 2005/6 % of target performance performance performance target performance Total number of actual 2469 2690 2472 2100 2196 105% visits to Museum sites (excluding virtual visits) (000s) Number of children aged 330 310 365 235 251 107% 15 and under attending the Museum sites (000s) Number of children 243 284 309 119* 128 108% aged 15 and under in on- and off-site organised educational sessions (000s) Number of UK adults aged ** ** ** 116 127 109% 16 and over from lower socio- economic groups attending the Museum sites (000s) Number of website visits 3038 4120 6516 10,000 11,581 116% (user sessions) (000s) Net income from trading ** ** ** £2.785m £2.745m 99% Efficiency savings ** ** ** £2.7m £2.3m 85% (cumulative, cash and non-cash)

*definition of target revised in 2005/6 and categories that were previously reported were excluded **targets introduced in 2005/6 to 2007/8 Funding Agreement

The performance measures in the current Funding Agreement (2005/6 to 2007/8) are shown in the table above. The Wellington Museum has been excluded for ease of comparison, although it was part of the V&A until 31 March 2004.

86 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 FINANCIAL STATEMENT

In 2005/6 the V&A recorded an operating deficit of £556,204. The deficit is larger than that anticipated for the year end due to several factors.

The July 2005 bombings in London influenced visitor numbers to the Museum in general and in particular attendances for International Arts and Crafts and Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, which were significantly below target. As a result, the overall performance of our retail and publications business was disappointing. However, audiences and ticket income for Diane Arbus Revelations met their budget.

Investment in IT infrastructure and upgrades to the telephone and security systems were the main elements of expenditure. The Museum continued its programme of rationalisation of accommodation and invested substantially in priorities such as building repairs and FuturePlan.

During the year the V&A spent £11.7m in support of FuturePlan, of which £9.2m was financed from external funders (public and private). In 2005/6, the V&A has had to use a significant amount of its own resources to lever additional funding, but remains very concerned that expenditure still remains well below the level it ought to invest in gallery displays, visitor services, educational facilities and security. The Museum also faces serious challenges in financing the repair and maintenance of its capital infrastructure to an appropriate level.

APPENDICES 87 FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2006

Restricted and Unrestricted 2005/6 2004/5 £m £m Income Grant-in-aid 38.23 36.19 Admissions 1.17 1.37 Loans and touring exhibition fees 1.03 0.60 Donations, legacies and Patrons 11.89 16.29 Corporate Members 0.15 0.08 Trading 7.22 8.45 Investment 0.91 0.71 Lottery 0.72 0.38 Sponsorship 0.69 0.81 Other 2.14 1.22 64.15 66.10

Expenditure Collections, Research and National Art Library 12.25 11.13 Collection Services and Exhibitions 9.36 8.62 Learning and Interpretation 2.99 2.25 Visitor Services and Facilities 7.71 7.48 Branch museums 4.77 4.41 Museum developments 5.60 9.14 Projects and Estate 7.36 7.85 Management and administration 5.24 5.05 Fundraising and publicity 2.50 2.76 Trading costs 6.93 7.57 64.71 66.25 Net income for the year -0.56 -0.15

The above are extracted from unaudited draft accounts.

88 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 Income 2005/6 % 1 Grant-in-aid 60 2 Admissions 2 3 Loans and touring exhibition fees 2 4 Donations, legacies and Patrons 19 5 Trading 11 6 Investment 1 7 Lottery 1 8 Sponsorship and Corporate Members 1 9 Other 3

Expenditure 2005/6 % 1 Collections, Research and National Art Library 19 2 Collection Services and Exhibitions 14 3 Learning and Interpretation 5 4 Visitor Services and Facilities 12 5 Branch museums 7 6 Museum developments 9 7 Projects and Estate 11 8 Management and administration 8 9 Fundraising and publicity 4 10 Trading costs 11

APPENDICES 89 SUPPORTERS JULIE AND ROBERT BRECKMAN PROFESSOR AND MRS RODNEY KINSMAN SIR RONALD AND LADY COHEN MR AND MRS JAMES KIRKMAN THE V&A WOULD LIKE TO PAY SPECIAL COLEFAX AND FOWLER LIMITED KLJM LTD TRIBUTE TO OUR INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL DR GENEVIEVE AND MR PETER DAVIES KOOPMAN RARE ART FOR THEIR EXTRAORDINARY GENEROSITY MR DANIEL KATZ MBE MR AND MRS MAURICE LAMBERT MALLET & SON (ANTIQUES) LTD CHRIS AND LIZ LAPSA WILLIAM AND JUDITH BOLLINGER CHRISTINA MATTIN MR AND MRS HARRY LEUCKERT MR AND MRS EDWIN DAVIES OBE HELLE AND HARDY MCLAIN MR G. LEVIN DOROTHY AND MICHAEL HINTZE MRS PAMELA RODITI ROGER H. LLOYD MR FADY JAMEEL PAUL AND JILL RUDDOCK JANET MARTIN MR MOHAMMED JAMEEL NICHOLAS AND LAVINIA WALLOP HOLT MASSEY MR JOHN MADEJSKI OBE DL MRS GARRY WESTON MR AND MRS STEPHEN MATHER MR AND THE HON MRS RONALD MCAULAY PETER WILLIAMS AND HEATHER ACTON MR AND MRS MICHAEL MILBURN PAUL AND JILL RUDDOCK MR AND MRS RONALD W. ZEGHIBE JULIA MOIR-JONES DR AND MRS MORTIMER SACKLER MOMART LIMITED THE RT HON SIR TIMOTHY SAINSBURY PATRONS MR DONALD A. MOORE (CHAIRMAN) LORD AND LADY ALEXANDER OF WEEDON DIANE MORCOM DR SUSAN WEBER SOROS TOBY AND KATE ANSTRUTHER MR AND MRS WALLY OLINS DR T.T. TSUI MR AND MRS WILLIAM ARAH S. J. PHILLIPS LIMITED THE HON NICHOLAS AND MRS ASSHETON LADY PURVES THE V&A WOULD LIKE TO PAY SPECIAL TRIBUTE MR EDGAR ASTAIRE GRAHAM AND JANE REDDISH TO THE FOLLOWING MAJOR BENEFACTORS SIRDAR ALY AZIZ,THE DASHWOOD GROUP THE LADY RIDLEY OF LIDDESDALE FOR THEIR EXTRAORDINARY GENEROSITY ELIZABETH BARTMAN ROBERT E. RILEY JOHN V. BLOOMFIELD MR AND MRS JAMES RITBLAT THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A MR AND MRS BENJAMIN BONAS ADRIAN SASSOON, ESQ WILLIAM AND JUDITH BOLLINGER GANDER & WHITE SHIPPING LTD MR AND MRS HUGH SASSOON THE CLORE DUFFIELD FOUNDATION MR AND MRS RICHARD BRIANCE MRS SYLVIA SCHEUER MR AND MRS EDWIN DAVIES OBE DEBORAH LOEB BRICE DAVID AND SOPHIE SHALIT DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT THE BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY MR AND MRS TOM SHARPE SIR HARRY DJANOGLY CBE MR AND MRS PETER CADBURY MR AND MRS DAVID SILICH THE FRIENDS OF THE V&A MRS ALAN CAMPBELL-JOHNSON MR AND MRS PAUL W. SOLDATOS THE HEADLEY TRUST RUSS AND LINDA CARR MR AND MRS NICHOLAS STANLEY HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND SIMON CARTER ACCESSORIES LTD ARNOLD STEVENSON THE HINTZE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CHRISTIE’S JEREMY AND MARGARET STRACHAN THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THROUGH LADY CLARK WARREN FELSON AND LUCY SUN THE GENEROSITY OF THE IRIS FOUNDATION PENELOPE, VISCOUNTESS COBHAM THE DOWAGER LADY SWAYTHLING THE JAMEEL FAMILY ANTHONY AND MARIETTA COLERIDGE MARY TALBOT MR JOHN MADEJSKI OBE DL MR DAMON AND THE HON MRS DE LASZLO SHAMINA TALYARKHAN THE MONUMENT TRUST DEBBIE DOVE DALE THOMAS THE ART FUND MME VIRGINIA DRABBE-SEEMANN SIR PAUL AND LADY JUDGE NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND SIR ANDREW AND LADY DUFF GORDON FREDERICK AND KATHRYN UHDE PAUL AND JILL RUDDOCK THE MARCHIONESS OF DUFFERIN & AVA DAVID URE THE DR MORTIMER AND THERESA SACKLER LORD AND LADY EGREMONT GEORGE AND PATRICIA WHITE FOUNDATION GILES ELLWOOD LTD JEREMY AND KIM WHITE SIMON SAINSBURY JOSCELYN FOX STEPHEN WHITE ESQ THE RT HON SIR TIMOTHY SAINSBURY PRINCE AND PRINCESS FRANKOPAN AKIKO ZEITLIN DR T.T. TSUI LORD GAVRON MR AND MRS RAINER ZIETZ WESTON FAMILY LADY GIBSON AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN THE A.H. WHITELEY FAMILY THE HON PIERS AND MRS GIBSON ANONYMOUS THE WOLFSON FOUNDATION PAUL ARTHUR GISMONDI ESQ AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN CHRIS AND DIANA GODDING CORPORATE PATRONS ANONYMOUS MME ALICE GOLDET BAGLIONI HOTELS MRS JANE GORDON CLARK BLOOMBERG THE V&A WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE JANET AND JIM LLOYD ERNST & YOUNG FOLLOWING FOR GENEROUSLY SUPPORTING MR AND MRS CLIFFORD GUNDLE JPMORGAN THE MUSEUM'S ONGOING REDEVELOPMENT RODERICK AND JENNY HALL LLOYDS TSB PRIVATE BANKING MRS CHRISTOPHER HAMPSON SKANSKA JULIE AND ROBERT BRECKMAN MRS JANET HEDDLE MR DANIEL KATZ MBE MORVEN AND MICHAEL HELLER CORPORATE MEMBERS THE LEWIS FAMILY, IN MEMORY OF CECIL LEWIS KATRIN BELLINGER AMERICAN EXPRESS THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST LADY HESELTINE JOHN LEWIS THE PF CHARITABLE TRUST ANDREW HOCHHAUSER QC MORGAN STANLEY THE RAYNE FOUNDATION RADHIKA HOOKWAY NOMURA SALOMON OPPENHEIMER PHILANTHROPIC SIR JOSEPH HOTUNG PEARSON FOUNDATION FEDELLMA HOWARD UBS THE SWAN TRUST SIMONE HYMAN AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN JAMES AND LUCILLA JOLL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS ANONYMOUS KENNETH JOLLEYS ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: VISIONS OF THE ARTIST: PHILIP AND PAMELA JOSEPH IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION THE V&A IS PARTICULARLY GRATEFUL TO ALEXANDER JUDSON ANNA PIAGGI FASHION-OLOGY: THOSE WHO HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT MRS ELAINE F. KAUFMAN TOPSHOP CONTRIBUTION TO THE MUSEUM'S WORK MRS DIANA KAWKABANI DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS: MR AND MRS TIMOTHY KEANEY THE BANK OF NEW YORK DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE MR NAND KHEMKA AND PRINCESS JEET FASHION IN MOTION: ASCENSION UNDERWRITING LTD NABHA KHEMKA ISTITUTO MARANGONI WILLIAM AND JUDITH BOLLINGER MR AND MRS ROBERT KIME

90 V&A ANNUAL REVIEW 2005/6 FRIDAY LATE: JAMES AND LUCILLA JOLL BRITISH TOY & HOBBY ASSOCIATION ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND PEARL LAM CATKIN PUSSYWILLOW CHARITABLE TRUST FRIDAY LATE AFRICA 05: JIM LEE THE CLORE DUFFIELD FOUNDATION CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION LONGCHAMP THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THROUGH FRIDAY LATE BORN FREE: DAVID, IANTHE AND HELEN MACLAGAN THE GENEROSITY OF ROBERT FREIDUS PSP (PLAYSTATION® PORTABLE) MULBERRY AND SHOWROOM DUMMIES THE FRIENDS OF THE V&A FRIDAY LATE CHINA: THE ART FUND THE GLASS-HOUSE TRUST RED MANSION FOUNDATION NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND NICHOLAS AND JUDITH GOODISON FRIDAY LATE COLLAGE/REPORTAGE: THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THROUGH THE HEADLEY TRUST ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE THE GENEROSITY OF MS JUDY NOVAK THE HELEN HAMLYN TRUST TOPSHOP DAVID NOTARIUS THE PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS: S. PERSAUD HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND HEAL’S THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THROUGH JPMORGAN FOUNDATIONS THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THE GENEROSITY OF PROFESSOR LEARNTHINGS LTD THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE SEYMOUR RABINOVITCH THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST FIGGE FOUNDATION MR AND MRS STEWART RESNICK OLD POSSUM’S PRACTICAL TRUST AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THROUGH WESTON FAMILY ANONYMOUS THE GENEROSITY OF LESLIE AND AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN PALACE AND MOSQUE: JUDITH SCHREYER ANONYMOUS THE JAMEEL FAMILY A PRIVATE CONSORTIUM LED BY STYLE AND SPLENDOUR: MR JOHN S. M. SCOTT V&A THEATRE MUSEUM STATOIL UK DR JOHN SHAKESHAFT JONATHAN ALTARAS DAILY MAIL AND GENERAL TRUST PLC RICHARD SLEE NOEL COWARD FOUNDATION JOHN AND INGER FREDRIKSEN SOTHEBY’S HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND NORSKE SKOG THE HON CHARLOTTE TOWNSHEND MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES COUNCIL ROYAL NORWEGIAN EMBASSY VESSEL GALLERY JACK READING ESTHER AND PETER SMEDVIG MARCEL WANDERS AND CAPPELLINI CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS MR AND MRS ABRAHAM ODFJELL CATHERINE WARD SOCIETY OF LONDON THEATRE AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN MR ANTHONY WELDON WESTMINSTER ARTS COUNCIL ANONYMOUS THE A.H. WHITELEY FAMILY ANDREW WHITLAW SUNDER SINGH KAPANY SIKH ARTS LECTURE: THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GOLDSMITHS THE SIKH FOUNDATION MARIAN VOLRAB THE V&A IS MOST GRATEFUL TO THE TRUSTEES TOUCH ME: AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN OF THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A FOR THE WELLCOME TRUST ANONYMOUS THEIR VALUABLE COMMITMENT AND SUPPORT TRAJAN REEL BY TOM GIDLEY: OUTSET CONTEMPORARY ART FUND CONSERVATION MS CAROL BOULANGER EXECUTORS OF MR E.E. BECKETT, IN MEMORY MRS FRANCES DOWNING OTHER DONATIONS OF MR E.E. BECKETT AND MRS P.M.BECKETT AMBASSADOR EDWARD ELSON AND CHANNEL 4 DAILY MAIL & GENERAL TRUST PLC MRS SUZANNE ELSON COSGROVE HALL FILMS THE LECHE TRUST MRS AUDREY M. GRUSS HEINEKEN NATIONAL HERITAGE MEMORIAL FUND MR MICHAEL LYNTON JAL TOSHIBA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION MRS DIANA QUASHA JOHNNIE WALKER MRS MARY RENDALL LAURENT-PERRIER LEARNING MR PAUL RUDDOCK ONEW ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND MR LESLIE SCHREYER SAMSUNG THE BAND TRUST MR ANDREW SOLOMON SMIRNOFF DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT DR SUSAN WEBER SOROS TANQUERAY NO. 10 GIN THE PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION MRS ELEANOR TAFFNER TOSHIBA HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND WILLARD TAYLOR ESQ THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES LADY JUDITH OGDEN THOMSON ACQUISITIONS IN BRITISH ART DR UTE WARTENBERG KAGAN THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A MRS DEEDEE WIGMORE MR GORDON BALDWIN OTHER GRANTS AND DONATIONS PAUL BARKER THE JULIE AND ROBERT BRECKMAN BURSARY INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADORS GROUP CRISTIANO BIANCHIN JOHN LEWIS THE HON DAVID BERNSTEIN WILLIAM AND JUDITH BOLLINGER CHARLES IAN FURNISS PENELOPE, VISCOUNTESS COBHAM THE JULIE AND ROBERT BRECKMAN PRINT FUND H. GOLDIE & CO LTD AMBASSADOR EDWARD ELSON ROBERT BRECKMAN, IN MEMORY OF JULIE MRS JANET MARCH-PENNEY MR JEREMY GARFIELD-DAVIES DR PETER COOKSON SMITH THE MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES MR DANIEL KATZ MBE SIMON COOPER COUNCIL DAVID LAWS ESQ THE CORAL SAMUEL CHARITABLE TRUST NEHRU TRUST FOUNDATION MRS DANIELLA LUXEMBOURG DAVID DAMANT THE WELLCOME TRUST MR MICHAEL LYNTON MARTHA DONIACH ANDREW WISEMAN MR JAMES MILLER THE DORIS DUKE FOUNDATION V&A ILLUSTRATION AWARDS: LADY RITBLAT GARRY FABIAN MILLER THE ENID LINDER FOUNDATION MRS BETH RUDIN DEWOODY THE FRIENDS OF THE V&A THE WARNE CURATORSHIP FOR MR LESLIE SCHREYER BETTINA AND JOE GLEASON CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: MRS CAROL SEGAL THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THROUGH FREDERICK WARNE & CO. MR ANDREW SOLOMON THE GENEROSITY OF MR GERALD GULOTTA AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO REMAIN MS MICHELE TOCCI ELIZABETH P.HAMILTON ANONYMOUS DR SANTO VERSACE THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE V&A THROUGH ANDREAS WHITTAM SMITH ESQ THE GENEROSITY OF MR EDGAR HARDEN V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD LADY HOBART ABN AMRO BANK N.V. PETER HODGES ALDGATE AND ALLHALLOWS BARKING MR AND MRS PHILIP HODGSON EXHIBITION FOUNDATION BEN JANSSENS ORIENTAL ART THE BRIDGE HOUSE TRUST

APPENDICES 91 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Board of Trustees of the V&A 2005/6

Paula Ridley (Chairman) Jonathan Altaras Professor Margaret Buck Rob Dickins Professor Sir Christopher Frayling Jane Gordon Clark Betty Jackson Professor Lisa Jardine Rick Mather Peter Rogers Paul Ruddock The Rt Hon Sir Timothy Sainsbury Dame Marjorie Scardino Samir Shah

Director Mark Jones

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