>Penny Martin
Writer, Curator
Penny Martin, Editor in Chief of SHOWstudio, is a curator and writer on fashion and photography who has lectured internationally. Since studying at Glasgow and Manchester Universities and The Royal College of Art, she has worked as a Curator at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and The Women's Library and as a Researcher and Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Penny curated the Vogue Laid Out exhibition at The V&A in 2000 and is an interviewer for The National Sound Archive. She has also contributed to Another, Beaux Arts, Blueprint, Contemporary, Fantastic Man, Frieze, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, Numéro, UK Vogue and Japanese Vogue magazines and La Repubblica and The Independent newspapers. Penny is also a presenter on BBC2's The Culture Show.
Related SHOWstudio Projects
EXPERIMENTS IN ADVERTISING: The Films of Erwin Blumenfeld
(25 September 2006)A unique chance to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential fashion photographers of all...
THE SOUND OF CLOTHES: ANECHOIC
(20 April 2006)Anechoic is a 'collections story' project that used sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments the...
SHELF APPEAL
(15 December 2004)An artificial sweetener dispenser designed by Karl Lagerfeld, a hairbrush whose bristles had been replaced by locks of human hair, coloured...
THE BELGIANS
( 5 March 2004)
END OF SUMMER
(11 September 2003)
KILLED
(23 January 2002)Selected Publications
'The Oxford Companion to the Photograph', Oxford University Press, 2005.
'Fashion Now 2', Jones, T. & Rushton, S. (eds.), Taschen, 2005.
'The Englishness of English Dress', Breward, C. & Conekin, B. (eds.), Berg, 2001.