Rosalind McKever
Dr Rosalind McKever is Curator of Paintings and Drawings at the V&A, London, where in 2022 she co-curated Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear. A specialist in modern European art, she is particularly interested in its relationship with fashion and design, its reception in Britain, the US and Brazil, and ideas of time and history. She has held fellowships at the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught at the University of Sussex. In 2025 she was the inaugural curatorial resident at the Leonard A. Lauder Research Centre for Modern Art and published Vanessa Bell: Modern Living (V&A/T&H).
Clothing provides helpful temporal markers and adds chronographic layers throughout The Clock. It positions characters within their own diurnal course, from nightclothes to workwear to evening dress, heading out or staying in, rushed or nonchalant. Costumes situate scenes within not only the day, but the season and the century. Even the most timeless tailoring betrays its moment with the width of a lapel, the glimmer of a cufflink.
