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Three artists – an artist who has worked with institutional collecting

Posted on 22 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

Basia Irland Basia Irland, as sculptor and installation artist, as poet and book artist, and as activist, for the past twenty years, has been focused on water. The water that carries, that falls, and transforms life, that writes on sand, … Continue reading →

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Three artists – an artist who has questioned institutional collecting.

Posted on 22 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

Coco Fusco (1960- ) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer who began her career in 1988. Fusco performs and curates throughout America and internationally. The Year of the White Bear and Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West (1992–1994) This … Continue reading →

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More musings on art and mental health – A House To Die In?

Posted on 21 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

‘Why would you want to make a house to die in?’ asks my son as we watch a BBC News item about New York based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard‘s current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, which … Continue reading →

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Are you in touch with your inner train spotter?

Posted on 19 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

Since I started learning about collecting and its relation to art this week I have been wondering in my few and far between idle moments: why do people collect things? What is it about human nature that makes people natural … Continue reading →

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Plastic Island – a collection of junk

Posted on 17 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

The term ‘plastic beach’ is the term being used to describe a selection of once idyllic white sandy beaches turned into rubbish tips of plastic flotsam including plastic bottles, bags, tyres, rusting petrol cans, and other waste from around the … Continue reading →

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I collect mantelpieces

Posted on 17 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

I decided to collect some mantelpieces of my own, inspired by Rachel Hurdley’s experiment (I also thought that bedside tables would make for an interesting collection). So here below is a selection of mantelpieces, starting with my own. What do … Continue reading →

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I collect dolls

Posted on 15 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

Morton Bartlett As mentioned in a previous post, I visited the Hamburger Bahnhof, and whilst there I also saw a collection of elaborately designed, modelled and dressed dolls by American artists Morton Bartlett. Central works of Bartlett’s collection were 15 semi-life-sized … Continue reading →

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I see dead people – or at least I collect pictures of them

Posted on 15 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

Hans-Peter Feldmann In September I went to Berlin. And I went to the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum Fur Gegenwart – Berlin. And there I saw two very moving and disturbing collections. The first one was by Hans-Peter Feldmann. Feldmann collected, … Continue reading →

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Collecting – notes from a tutorial – is it geeky to collect or art?

Posted on 15 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

What does it mean to collect? What does the notion of collecting mean? What does collecting mean for an artist? (Can we get away with it in the name of art?) Olympic artist artist in residence Neville Gabie collected pictures … Continue reading →

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The things you think about sitting in the bath…

Posted on 13 October 2012 by beckybendylegs

Today, my bath-time ponderings were whether there is a connection between mental illness and creativity. I was actually reading a print-out of a book’s chapter abstracts for work and they came from a book about publicly-funded asylums in 1880s America … Continue reading →

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