BRIEF:COLLECTIONS/Salon/multitude exhibition

Multitude continues ESA’s Social Club

Within this abundance of objects, the phenomenon of hoarding, collecting, cataloguing, archiving and re-cycling creates a conveyor belt of clutter. Why do we feel the need to hold on to things, hoard and search out additions to a growing collection? From scientific and anthropological collections in museums to investment collections of contemporary art to sentimental hoarding of objects to keeping things because you can, collecting is often regarded as a malady, a madness that makes humans, human.

These ideas of consumerism, collecting and hoarding will be explored over the course Multitude through a variety of socially engaged art events, exhibitions, artist commissions and residencies.

Exhibited work in salon exhibition.
I exhibited bag book of stuff piece in salon exhibition, as part of multitude; a series of exhibitions based around hoarding, collecting and cataloging.

The history of and the context for the original parisian salon exhibition is fascinating in that at the heart of the its concern was the need to create oppurtunities for young artists to show new work and to develop the audiences for 'contempory' art

Jess Wilkin You’re Never Alone When You Collect

Artist Jess Wilkin will show the culmination of her two month research residency at Patrick Studios, exploring archives, collections and the motivation behind their owners.
During Multitude

Transpennine Memorabilia Collection and Café

Enjoy a cup of tea and cake whilst viewing artist Kwong Lee’s Transpennine Memorabilia Collection which showcases discarded tourist souvenirs of the Transpennine region's villages, towns and cities.