Joining the seams between Art, Fashion, and Heritage.
Insights into exhibitions, trends, and the making process, woven with reflections on the philosophy and intimacy of creativity
What Does the Cloth Remember?
V&A PORTALS - Performance Festival 2026
Standing in front of a 17th century silk nightgown in the V&A’s collection, its maker labelled simply as “unknown”. There is one question I keep returning to as I prepare my work to exhibit…
Dear Reader,
I’m currently writing the first essays for this space, reflections that trace the seams between art, fashion, and heritage.
Texts shaped by exhibitions, garments, archives, and the quiet labour of making: the hand, the material, the memory held in cloth.
Until these articles are published, In the Making is where this writing begins.
The newsletter shares studio letters on process, practice, and material culture, early drafts, exhibition notes, research fragments, and thoughts still unfolding. A slower correspondence, sent from the studio rather than the press release.
If you’re drawn to how things are made, how histories are carried, and how ideas take form through material, you’re invited to subscribe.
-MJE
