Curator/Collections Researcher

Doing the Work: Documenting Collections workshop

Kathleen Lawther

Date Published

1st October 2022

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thumbnail image for YouTube video, the title screen reads Doing the Work: Documenting Collections

In March 2021 I was invited to chair an online workshop for the Contemporary Art Society and UAL Decolonising Arts Institute as part of their Doing the Work series. The session included presentations by Ananda Rutherford and Marenka Thompson-Odlum followed by small group discussions with practitioners discussing the issues they were facing in their work.

You can watch the video here.

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Projects

Ipswich Museum World Collections

Ipswich Museum is a local authority museum which first opened in 1881. In 2020 they were awarded a Development Grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a project focusing on ‘the museum’s outstanding Victorian heritage – the philanthropists, industrialists and scientists who started it; the collections; the fascinating cast of characters who collected them and the museum building they built to house them.’

Fashioning Africa

Fashioning Africa was a project to collect postcolonial fashion and accessories from across the African continent, responding to and complementing Brighton Museum’s designated collection of historic African textiles. The team collected over 450 items, working with a collecting panel which included expertise from lived experience and academia. I joined the project to document these new acquisitions.

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