The Collective present a selected exhibition of weird and wonderful collections and peculiar artifacts from artists and non-artists alike.  Curious curios, unconventional archives, objects and images, paraphernalia and ephemera, sit alongside everyday obsessions, repetitions and observations in their many forms offering a fascinating insight into the act or art of collecting.

Exhibiting Collectors.....

And so...we've come to that time when things are beginning to happen...and fast! We've had some fantastically wierd, wonderful and often obscure submissions from all over the U.K, and after careful consideration and musings about just how to represent the wonderfully eccentric world of the diversity of personal collections, we are pleased to announce the following people (and their collections) will be a part of creating The Collective's exhibition:

Bernie Vinton, 

Bryan Eccleshall www.bryaneccleshall.co.uk , 

Carolyn Arnold  www.carolynarnold.co.uk 

Daniel Paton, www.paulopatoni.co.uk

David Foggo, www.davidfoggo.co.uk

David McNab,

Des Fullerton,

Ephemeral Incident, 
Gill Holt,

Ian Smith,

Jennifer Cooper, www.jenny-cooper.co.uk

Jim Cooke,

Kieran Fawcett,
Lauren Hudson, www.worksofhudson.blogspot.com
Lucy Axon, www.lucyaxon.tripod.com
Paul Matosic, www.matosic.org.uk
Rachael Bond, www.rachaelbondphotography.co.uk
Rosie O'Driscoll, www.rosieodriscoll.tumblr.com
Samantha Francis, www.samfrancisco0.blogspot.com
Samuel Lindupp,
Tony Eastman, www.tigermuseum.com

Peter Blake - Collections

Peter Blake - A Museum for Myself @ The Holbourne Museum, Bath, - Opening May 2011
http://www.holburne.org/peter-blake-a-museum-for-myself/

Apples I Have Eaten by Jonathan Gerken

Arguably THE Found Photo Finder & Certainly an Incredible Ar(t)chivist....

Joachim Schmid

1982–ongoing: Bilder von der Straße

http://schmid.wordpress.com 

^ No.5, Berlin, April 1983

^ No.37, Berlin, August 1987

^ No.44, Los Angeles, July 1988

^ No.74, Barcelona, April 1990

^ No.75, Berlin, May 1990

^ No.82, Berlin, July 1990

^ No.83, Berlin, July 1990

^ No.111, Berlin, August 1991

^ No.140, Belo Horizonte, August 1992

We Love Found Stuff.......

http://www.foundmagazine.com/

http://www.grocerylists.org/

How To Organise Things

How To Organise Things...

Collection A Day

This is a blog documenting a project that spans exactly one year, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. On each of those 365 days, the artist photographed or drew one collection. Most of the collections are real and exist in her home or studio.

http://collectionaday2010.blogspot.com/

Recollection

rɛkəˈlɛkʃən

n

1. the act of recalling something from memory; the ability to remember

2. something remembered; a memory

The Collective is our title for an exhibition taking place in May as part of the Fringe Arts Bath. The title was chosen to reflect the contents of the exhibition, which as yet have not been decided, but which we know will be in the realm of tactile ephemera, everyday obsessions, observations, curios, stuff and things and objects and art or not-art. It will be a collective experience of the minutiae that mean something to someone; once presented and re-contextualized within the art form, the purpose is to celebrate and indulge in other people’s enthusiastic meticuli and love of the specific.

Body Parts Made From Bread

Mark Dion - New England Digs

Things Exhibition @ The Wellcome Collection

The Welcome Collection is a gem of a museum in London and describes itself as a free destination for the incurably curious. Henry Welcome was the founder and his collection is odd in the extreme with trapanned skulls, a body preserved for hundreds of years in a peat bog, amputation saws and victorian false teeth. There is a collection of contemporary artifacts including a slither of a real human body from head to foot as well as contemporary art which responds to current scientific issues. Part of the exhibition is a collection of 'things no bigger than your head' bought in by the public.

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/things/calendar-of-things.aspx 

Hans Peter Feldmann

 

One Pound of Strawberries

 

All the Clothes of a Woman

from The Artificial Kingdom by Celeste Olalquiaga

"Selection and organisation allow collectors to establish a particular relation with their objects: no matter how common, an object can always be rescued from its apparent banality by the investment in it of personal meaning, that ineffable 'sentimental' value which can beat the most priceless item."

We Like.... Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors

HACKNEY'S LEADING CURIOSITY SHOP

The Shop is perhaps best seen as an attempt to recreate or reinterpret, within 21st century sensibilities, a 17th century Wunderkabinett; a collection of objects assembled at a whim on the basis of their aesthetic or historical appeal. There is no attempt at creating or explaining, meta-narratives or educating anyone. It is merely a display of Naturalia and Artificialia designed to give pleasure to the creators of the Museum, who hope that you too will enjoy it.

http://viktorwyndofhackney.co.uk/index.html

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

A collection of strange singles from the Hot Or Not dating website circa 2005...

You may collect...

 

...model Chrysler buildings...

 

...picture frames...

 

...Japanese toys...

 

...old pharmaceutical jars and packaging or...

 ...Koshari kachina figurines...

Source: Obsessions - Collectors And Their Passions. Stephen Calloway

Pin-Board at 69 York Road

Open/Closed Signs by samfrancisco

The Upper Ten or Squirrels Club by Walter Potter

http://www.acaseofcuriosities.com/pages/01_2_00potter.html

What Is A Collection?

A collection is a group of resources that are related to each other in some identifiable way. The relationship might be through a topic, a place, a person, an organisation or a type of object.

A collection may be divided into smaller parts, or sub-collections, which may in turn be divided into smaller parts. For example, a library collection might be divided into fiction and non-fiction stock, with the non-fiction stock divided into lending and reference stock, while a museum might have collections of ceramics, textiles, coins and silverware, with the coins divided into categories or sub-collections by time period - Roman, Anglo-Saxon, medieval, etc.

What to do with dead flies or How to have fun? Photos By Julie Guerrin

Le Palais Ideal

Le Palais Ideal was built by Facteur Cheval - Postman Cheval - Ferdinand Cheval and is one of the world's most astounding visionary structures.

Why is it here in this place of collections?

Cheval was a simple country postman in the small village of Hauterives, Drome, France and one day he found a strange stone that fascinated him....33 years later after collecting hundreds and thousands and millions of stones, he had built Le Palais Ideal.

His vision was based on the places he saw on postcards from foreign climes and images from magazines that he delivered on his round. He would find the stones and collect them in his wheelbarrow after his work was finished.

This is truly a work of obsession, drive and collecting.

http://www.facteurcheval.com/?LANG=en

The Museum of Everything

 a collection of artists

by George Widener; on discarded napkins