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The Museum for Objects of Vertu

richard gray 'rosa'

You may have read older posts relating to the museum but now you can see the whole thing on my new blog !(see the link on the right) There will be a new show soon and submissions for this are now being considered.

Always winter but never christmas...

....through the fur coats , past the lampost , snow under foot in the deep winter that has engulfed the museum for objects of vertu. Here we find some turkish delight..............

...and then a cosy corner with tea and presents. Thankyou to all the sons of Adam and daughters of Eve who ventured through ( and also to Rachel and Louise)

sons of Adam and daughters of Eve....

...soon the Museum for Objects of Vertu will only be reached through an old wardrobe. If you are a son of Adam or a daughter of Eve you are welcome on the 7th of December.
contact museumforobjects@tiscali.co.ukfor details

.....more 'Dust Jacket'

......the window in the museum . I made a papercut of the ascent of man ( he eventually turns into a lady) to filter the light. Here are the others who took part , see the links list to see more of everyones work.










Rosie Cooper












Tim Spooner

























Piers Jamson







Audrey Reynolds

Dust Jacket , a cover for 'The Voyage of the Beagle'

The second exhibition at the museum was inspired by my old copy of 'The Voyage of the Beagle' by Charles Darwin. It has no dust jacket so it seemed a good opportunity to make one !
I was fascinated by a passage in the book about his silk handkerchief so I recreated one from paper silk . I then turned this into a fortune teller , the creases being marked by writing the passage along each fold in ink.


Here are some images from the other artists in the show......

Rachael Mathews ( Prick Your Finger)
































Richard Gray










Matthew Robins


















more images to follow.....

Memento Hominem

The first exhibition at the museum was called 'Memento Hominem'. I have always been fascinated by the private collectors cabinets of the 17th century and in particular those that had personal objects, ones that only had meaning to the owner.The museum has been heavily influenced by these so I asked five artists to respond with their own 'living' artefacts.................

Piers Jamson

'Untitled'
(current piece can be viewed here)






Richard Gray

'Rosa'










Rosie Cooper


'The Forsaken Woodland Show'







'Barbra'
Matthew Robins











' a trip to the Virgin Islands...'

Rachael Matthews








The next exhibition will be on the 12th and 13th of July.

The Museum fo Objects of Vertu

The Museum for Objects of Vertu is possibly the smallest museum in the world ! and it's in my studio. The museum is 2m square and holds my collection of other peoples' memories and possesions . It is candle-lit , mysterious and not everything can be seen properly. This is exactly how a museum should be.
I have been collecting objects which were once loved or well used for a long time now. It is the intimacy of some of these objects which I find compelling ;the bits and bobs that get pushed to the back of a dressing table drawer, that then find their way to a flea market (still in the drawer) ,or small lengths of thread carefully wrapped around paper for when they might be useful. All the seemingly unimportant bits of ephemera that we keep , and the reasons we keep it , form a framework to our lives which is hidden to the rest of the world. The museum is like a modern Memento Hominem ,a collection of objects that remember us.


The Powdered Dress
poison bottle,textile fragments,childs spoon

from "Sweetest Tongue "
jewellery box,wasps nest,pen nibs,pins