The Festival of Collecting 2015 is an exhibition of collections in the National Art School campus in Darlinghurst.
The Festival is a project of the National Art School
Study Centre for Drawing. It is designed to explore collecting through example,
and to support students' independent study projects in drawing. The reasons
people made their collections vary—some to support art practices, some as
artworks, and some as independent activities. The collections on display will
also vary throughout the year. The first are listed below with their dates and
locations. Others will be added as the year progresses. Some will be ongoing
and others shorter-lived.
12. Kathryn Ryan Flocks of Numbers, Names of Birds, 2011
Sydney White Pages 2012/2013,
Pins, Labels, Collection of 50
http://piecesofpractice.blogspot.com.au
forum talk May 2015
On View: from August 4
Location: Vitrine in NAS Chapel
BUILDING 28
11. Ella Dreyfus The
Dreyfus Family Heirlooms, 1930 - 2015
I
took an interest in my mother Dora’s collection of buttons when she was
overseas about 15 years
ago. She is a sewer and hoarder, so I was very pleased to discover my
grandmother Rose’s buttons and my great aunt Carol’s collection too. I
stole the lot, sorted them into colours and started making button
jewellery which proved to be a very addictive pastime
and a great distraction from working on my doctoral thesis. Both my
sisters, Rebecca and Shooshi, are very cross as they see the buttons as
belonging to my mother, not me, and they both secretly wish to inherit
them.
On View: from August 4
Location: Vitrine, ground floor of NAS Library
BUILDING 14
10. Maryanne Coutts, Crowds
I collect photographs of crowds from the newspapers. When I started I
thought I might make a work from them, but now I think I just like
them. I like something about the consistency of crowds, how all crowds,
however different their participants, have
some commonality.
I also like that crowds are a collection in themselves. How many people make a crowd? How many things make a collection?
On View: from July 24
Location: On Maryanne's office door, ground floor of Building 15
BUILDING 15
9. Sue Olive, Cabinet of Curiosities
The Festival is a project of the National Art School
Study Centre for Drawing. It is designed to explore collecting through example,
and to support students' independent study projects in drawing. The reasons
people made their collections vary—some to support art practices, some as
artworks, and some as independent activities. The collections on display will
also vary throughout the year. The first are listed below with their dates and
locations. Others will be added as the year progresses. Some will be ongoing
and others shorter-lived.
12. Kathryn Ryan Flocks of Numbers, Names of Birds, 2011
Sydney White Pages 2012/2013,
Pins, Labels, Collection of 50
http://piecesofpractice.blogspot.com.au
forum talk May 2015
On View: from August 4
Location: Vitrine in NAS Chapel
11. Ella Dreyfus The Dreyfus Family Heirlooms, 1930 - 2015
10. Maryanne Coutts, Crowds
I collect photographs of crowds from the newspapers. When I started I
thought I might make a work from them, but now I think I just like
them. I like something about the consistency of crowds, how all crowds,
however different their participants, have
some commonality.
12. Kathryn Ryan Flocks of Numbers, Names of Birds, 2011
Sydney White Pages 2012/2013,
Pins, Labels, Collection of 50
http://piecesofpractice.blogspot.com.au
forum talk May 2015
On View: from August 4
Location: Vitrine in NAS Chapel
BUILDING 28
11. Ella Dreyfus The Dreyfus Family Heirlooms, 1930 - 2015
I
took an interest in my mother Dora’s collection of buttons when she was
overseas about 15 years
ago. She is a sewer and hoarder, so I was very pleased to discover my
grandmother Rose’s buttons and my great aunt Carol’s collection too. I
stole the lot, sorted them into colours and started making button
jewellery which proved to be a very addictive pastime
and a great distraction from working on my doctoral thesis. Both my
sisters, Rebecca and Shooshi, are very cross as they see the buttons as
belonging to my mother, not me, and they both secretly wish to inherit
them.
On View: from August 4
On View: from August 4
Location: Vitrine, ground floor of NAS Library
BUILDING 14
I also like that crowds are a collection in themselves. How many people make a crowd? How many things make a collection?
On View: from July 24
Location: On Maryanne's office door, ground floor of Building 15
BUILDING 15
BUILDING 15
On View: from July 27
Location: in vitrine upstairs in the NAS Library
BUILDING 14
8. Elizabeth Little, Tap
I've been tap dancing since I was a
teenager. This collection is about my love of tap - on film, on stage, in class - and about its history.
On View: until July 24
Location: in vitrine upstairs in the NAS Library
BUILDING 14
7. Jim Croke, Tools
On View: until July 24
Location: in vitrine in entrance to the NAS Library
BUILDING 14
6. Clara Hali
Collected nuts and bolts with clay sculpture by Clara
On view: until 24
July 2015
Location: vitrine in
Chapel
BUILDING 28 5. Andrew Donaldson, artist's library
Each artist carries with
them three kinds of images of art. Those of work they have experienced
directly, those of work they have seen mediated by the print or digital screen
and those they have only heard of. Between and across these fields’ lies the
context for their work, and in this way every artist is able to navigate their
own particular tradition. Belonging to this second category, and for most
artists it is by far the largest, books have been central to the documentation
and distribution of art especially in the twentieth century. They came before
the artist, they moved between artists and they came after the artists.
Thus, nearly all artists are also librarians. Even if they have only one book. And if they display a selection of their books on a wall they invite us to consider the mirror it must be, this presentation a reflection of the lines they draw for themselves around their work. An abbreviated self-portrait, then, such a sample of a library is also an offer to share with other artists in order that they might see themselves from a different perspective, in another way. Because if art books, especially monographs, are published after the artist is done, they also appear in advance of the art of tomorrow.
Thus, nearly all artists are also librarians. Even if they have only one book. And if they display a selection of their books on a wall they invite us to consider the mirror it must be, this presentation a reflection of the lines they draw for themselves around their work. An abbreviated self-portrait, then, such a sample of a library is also an offer to share with other artists in order that they might see themselves from a different perspective, in another way. Because if art books, especially monographs, are published after the artist is done, they also appear in advance of the art of tomorrow.
Part 1: Tomma Abts, Hilma
af Klint, Rose Adler, Tauba Auerbach, Marcelle Cahn, Claire Fontaine, Janin,
Mainie Jellett, Erika Giovanna Klein, Katarzyna Kobro, Jutta Koether, Jeanne
Kosnick-Kloss, Emma Kunz, Nadia Léger, Verena Loewensberg, Marlow Moss, Mai-Thu
Perret, Alexandra Povórina, Marie Raymond, Hilla Rebay, Charmion von Wiegand,
Paule Vezelay. Part 2: Eileen Agar, Janet Burchill, Cosima van Bonin, Jeanne Coppel, Grace Crowley, Barbara Hepwoth, Carmen Herrera, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Katharina Fritsch, Rachel Harrison, Renée Levi, Sarah Morris, Elixabeth Newman, Betty Parsons, Agnes Pelton, Lenke Rothman, Eva Rothschild, Esphyr Slobodkina, Anne Truitt, Fahr el Nissa Zeid.
On View: continuously
Location: North end of Building 24, first floor of Painting studios, above Ceramics studios BUILDING 24
4. Deborah Beck, Collections from the National Art School Archives
Displays include gaol items and plaster casts, and the recent donation by Kay Lanceley of Colin Lanceley's collection of antique wooden pitchforks, rabbit traps and agricultural tools (image left). Colin Lanceley is quoted as saying of his collection: “We are all scavengers, it’s in our DNA”. ('Tributes for artist Colin Lanceley', The Australian, January 30, 2015) On View: continuously
Location: in vitrines, cabinets and walls on Level 2, South end of Building 11
BUILDING 11
3. Margaret Roberts, TAKE US INSTEAD a slide show documentation of some of the
100 Williams' objects in the No Williams River Collection 2010. These objects were collected as an offering to the Hunter Water Authority as an alternative to the collection of Williams River water to make the Tillegra Dam. Being mainly collected from ebay, the No Williams River Collection is composed of varied and hardy objects of trade. Because they are far less vulnerable and rare than healthy rivers, and available at a much cheaper price, it was hoped that the Hunter Water Authority would take this collection instead, and leave the water in the river. Images of the full collection are on http://nowilliamsriver.blogspot.com.au
100 Williams' objects in the No Williams River Collection 2010. These objects were collected as an offering to the Hunter Water Authority as an alternative to the collection of Williams River water to make the Tillegra Dam. Being mainly collected from ebay, the No Williams River Collection is composed of varied and hardy objects of trade. Because they are far less vulnerable and rare than healthy rivers, and available at a much cheaper price, it was hoped that the Hunter Water Authority would take this collection instead, and leave the water in the river. Images of the full collection are on http://nowilliamsriver.blogspot.com.au
On view: ongoing during 2015
Location: digital photoframe in NAS cafe
BUILDING 2
2. Merran Esson, Pegs, Barbed Wire, Clips and openers
On view ongoing during 2015
Location: Glass display cupboard,
Ground floor, Ceramics Department
BUILDING 24
I. Wendy Howard, Notebooks 1975-2015
On view: 20 April - 15 May 2015
Location: vitrines on the ground floors of the Library and Chapel
BUILDINGS 28 and 14
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