
Cv/Visual Arts Research
The survey began in April 1988 as interviews with artists, jewelers, fashion designers and furniture restorers, based at Old Loom House in Whitechapel, launching a quarterly review Cv Journal of Art and Crafts. Cv Journal was published to 1992 and the collection of interviews and features provided the foundation of Cv Visual Arts Research archive and subsequent publications.
Cv/VAR archive includes analytic essays on examples of Western art including: The Trinity by Masaccio at Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Vermeer’s The Maidservant and Woman with a Balance; Velázquez court portraits, Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Francis Bacon, Anthony Caro and Alison Wilding, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol, with reviews of exhibitions in public and private galleries.
The collection of over two hundred pieces reveals strands that bind the continuum of classic and contemporary art.



Centre du verre cover

Artist Recordings

Artist recordings 88-96- Arman to Wilding

Trove of Derrynaflan


Courtauld collecton


Documenta X

CURATORS & COLLECTIONS: Management of the Arts The first edition of Curators & Collections, published in '97 was based on interviews & features published in the quarterly review: Cv Journal of Art and Crafts 1988-91. These recorded the launch of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in '91 & the construction of Tate Modern in '97.
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Imma foundation

The decorative arts of West Cork

IMMA cover



Curators progress - Dulwich picture





Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood







The Gathering

Tracey Emin She Lay Down Deep Beneath The Sea 2012, copyright the artist courtesy of White Cube
From Being Tracey: Life into Art by Marina Vaizey