Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London
Beautiful exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum on the life and work of the architect and designer Lockwood Kipling. I only knew of Lockwood Kipling as the father of Rudyard so I found this exhibition really enlightening. He designed some of the terracotta plaques on the museum itself then moved to India in 1865 to teach at a school of art and industry in Bombay. Although his remit had been to teach European arts he took an interest in and promoted the Indian arts. I liked the fact the show included the work of his pupils as well as him. The exhibition also looked at how the British used arts and crafts to promote the idea of the British Raj both in India and back in Britain. Here were super videos to show the buildings Kipling designed in each city he lived in commissioned from current students at the colleges he taught at. A nice touch! I loved a series of watercolours of craftsmen working particularly one of a wood carver holding the work ...