In our second episode, Softness is Craft, we review our trip to Collect 2019. The art fair is run by the Craft Council and takes place annually at the Saatchi Gallery. It showcases makers of all disciplines bound by the word "craft".
Collect comprises of individual galleries showcasing artists in a setting that sits in a strange space between gallery and shop, (I guess you could argue any exhibition is a shop to the super rich) these areas are small and sometimes ill curated, busy and other times beautifully considered and well executed, our favourite being Craft Scotland, with special mention to Petronilla Silver. Upstairs was Collect Open a showcase of individual makers in a more spacious curated area - we enjoyed the innovative hanging methods and framing of textiles pieces by Jan Bowman and Katherine Swailes.
In this episode we discuss the role of Collect as a exhibition and shop, what role this plays on the pieces and the audiences that engage with them. How this adds or takes away from the event as it is hosting under the guise of making money. The title of the show is ‘collect’, it presents collections of objects that buyers in turn, collect. Capitalism and Craft. We also discuss textiles within a gallery setting, their context and curation and the politics of TOUCH. Our favourite topics.
Some great quotes we overheard which perfectly sum up Collect:
"everybody is using porcelain nowadays"
"we haven't bought anything for the house in a couple of years so i'm looking forward to seeing what is here"
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Notes and references in the episode:
6:34 - Jan Bowman, Murmurations, a large scale installation made up of four separate pieces. Inspired by witnessing Starling Murmurations.
17:02 - 50 Goldborne, works by
Belkis Balpinar
Red Sun
(Image taken from Artists website)
Dilation, 2014
Weaving
20:56 - Gallerie Chevalier, works by
Francoise Paressant,
Le Voyage en Alsace (2014)
Hight warp tapestry, hand woven by the artist
Warp in cotton, weft in polyane
27:55 - Craft Scotland - our favourite stand
29:51 - works by
Ruth Leslie
33:02 - The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo series, "Sometimes things that are expensive are worse"
35:13 - Gallerie Chevalier calling all their works, fiber art
36:14 - Gallerie Chevalier works by Mathieu Ducourmau,
Smiley, 2017 which we call the"fibourous emoji"
39:33 - Petronilla Silver, works by Ismini Samanidou
40:45 - Petronilla Silver, works by Nicola Tassie,
beautifully hung and beautiful shadows
As always thank you for listening!
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