Tag Archives: Collecting

The Travelling Bottle of Ketchup

I am conducting an experiment. I have sent three bottles of ketchup on their travels to see how far they will go. The first one has only got as far as Newport, Shropshire, at least so far. The second one … Continue reading

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I collect Lego but I keep it all in my garage…

A good friend of mine today pointed me to an article in today’s Daily Mail which further opened my eyes to the world of Lego ‘art’. The question I am asking now though is, is this art? Or is this … Continue reading

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I collect Lego…

Today I’ve been thinking about Lego. And thinking about Lego made me wonder whether there are any Lego artists in the world and google introduced me to Nathan Sawaya. Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates large-scale sculptures using … Continue reading

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I collect Are They Real or Are They Paintings driving licence photographs

I’ve been browsing the BBC News website again, and this time I stumbled across (or someone stumbled me over I should say), an article about Swedish artist Fredrik Saker who decided to try and fake the photograph of himself he … Continue reading

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I collect toilets

The BBC News website, that fountain of useful information, today informed me that the first ever toilet theme park is being opened in South Korea. So we have another mad collection on display, in honour of another mad collector. The … Continue reading

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Does eccentricity and creativity come hand in hand?

Researching artists who collect, artists who question collecting, and artists who obsessively collect made me wonder: are all artists a little bit, or a lot, eccentric? All of the artists I and my fellow art students researched were eccentric on … Continue reading

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Other collectors worth a mention – from my fellow arty students

In today’s tutorial we discussed the various ‘collectors’ we had researched for homework and some interesting people and their take on collecting came up from my fellow students’ research, which I think is worth sharing here. Laura Was and Adam Echstrom Collaborative artists, … Continue reading

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Are you in touch with your inner train spotter?

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

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

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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