The Officers Club, Bath

So we are in the space..... Today is the start of the week of preparing the space, allocating space for the work and awaiting the exhibitors arrival to come and set up their work!

The opening night is this Friday 27th May 6-9pm 

There will be a main bar and the venue is also occupied by several other exhibitions to go and see.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

See the Fringe Arts Bath website for full details of the festival

http://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/ 

The Collective Present: Martin Parr Talk @ The Holbourne Museum, Bath

Martin Parr: Memorabilia, Museums and Motorways

While the Holburne celebrates the art of collecting we are very pleased to welcome the renowned photographer and avid collector Martin Parr who will be discussing his enthusiasm for motorway memorabilia and other essential stuff.

The talk will be preceeded by an introduction by The Collective’s Ian Smith who will be discussing his own detailing and arranging of Panini football stickers to the point of madness.

Tickets for this event are available from The Holburne Museum’s box office.

£8/£5 (limited concessionary tickets for The Collective visitors - please ask for voucher at the exhibition).
  
The talk is brought to you by the Holburne Museum in association with FAB curators, The Collective.

The Collective – Press Release

The Collective present a selected contemporary exhibition of weird and wonderful collections and peculiar artifacts from artists and non-artists alike. 

The exhibition is part of the Fringe Arts Bath festival taking place at The Officers Club, Stall Street, Bath between May 27^th and June 12^th 2011, 11-6pm.  

Opening night Friday 27^th May 6-9pm.

Items on display in this collection of curios and obsessions range from a bald man’s fascination with combs to a grandmother’s collation of 40 years worth of Scrabble games, a beleaguered artist’s stack of rejection letters, lost keys, found objects, apple cores, fruit stickers, football stickers, meticulously detailed and archived photographs of garlic, objets d’art and objects de’ not art. These 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.

The ephemera and collectables in the show have been sought and curated by The Collective who themselves have a passion for stuff and stuff gatherers, having met at a cereal packet convention in America in 1989. Mirroring current contemporary exhibitions such as the Wellcome Trust’s ‘Things’ exhibition and outsider art at The Museum of Everything, the show rediscovers the tactility of the passionate object in a time of throw away technology and digital archivism.

In collaboration with the re-opening of The Holburne Museum in Bath, and as part of the Fringe Arts Bath fortnight, The Collective have programmed photographer and enthusiastic collector Martin Parr to give a talk about his obsessions and collections which will include his passion for M1 memorabilia. The talk on May 31^st 7pm will take place in the museum itself with an introduction by The Collective’s Ian Smith who will be discussing his own detailing and arranging of Panini football stickers to the point of madness. Tickets for this event are available from The Holburne Museum’s box office.

Entrance to the exhibition is free and there will also be a chance to become part of The Collective’s own collection.