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COLLECT 

Louise Atkinson 
Julie Caves
Katherine Johnson and Stacey Allen
Steffan Jones- Hughes 
Simon Lewandowski
Victoria Lucas
Andy Singleton

Why do we feel the need to archive, to save, to cut out, and to keep? What drives us to accumulate, record and assemble? Collect is an exhibition that features the loved object created using paper based materials. The artists selected are all concerned with the passionate interest we have for personal possessions, and the objects of the everyday. 

Steffan Jones-Hughes for example presents a collection that reflects his own mortal fragility, archiving objects as a way to preserve his own existence. The lifeless bodies of birds, collected whilst on walks in the spring, are photographed, the images positioned in specimen jars. 

Katherine Johnson and Stacey Allen in the piece Eat Your Words consume words from a book, the performance acting as a metaphor for the way humans strive to collect information and knowledge. 

Collections are extraordinary instruments that allow us to learn about the civilisations we live in, past and present. They allow us to rationalise the passage of time, putting our fears surrounding the constant loss time demands temporarily at rest. Most of all they tell us something about ourselves, allowing us to place ourselves in the real, to remember, and to make ourselves feel more alive. 

COLLECT is a free exhibition. It opens on 27th January 2010 from 5-9pm. 

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