I would like to find a collection that relates to art, making, learning, domestic magic, and the everyday containing objects I may make a response to.
I hopped to find a collection that I could directly respond to with maybe a painting or still life. My place painting showing domestic magic and the every day would be a great vehicle.
My email to Jacqueline Winston-Silk in the UAL Camberwell Collections (a suggestion from Eve) was responded to immediately and Alladin's cave opened, it contained learning objects that were inspirational and exactly what I was looking for.
Previously my research had looked at why we collect and I visited a few sites before I settled on the UAL Camberwell ILEA Collection.
10 Unique Collections and the Psychology Behind Them
Why do we collect things? Love, anxiety, or desire? asks the Guardian newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/09/why-do-we-collect-things-love-anxiety-or-desire
The psychology of collecting
Freud Museum London
Fascinating and very personal collection - I see a direct link to a doll's collection, and a bit like the Nutcracker ballet I suspect they come to life at night.
Freud gave us many suggestions as to why we collect, including some linked to potty training, but let's not forget the fact he was a refuge and his collection allowed him to feel at home althoughhe was displaced.
The National Archives is a very diverse collection with plenty to respond to.
The job set required to engage with the public - About the role
The way people think about archives is already changing, with our blossoming events and exhibitions and award winning education and learning programmes. We have a new brand for the digital age and plans that reimagine our iconic brutalist building at Kew. You will drive this change further towards our vision of making The National Archives the home of our nation’s stories, and truly an archive for everyone.
Government Art collection, Jam making, a political issue, Two Scenes of domestic life, Trees to mention just a few ideas.
British Library Collection history, spanning the 15th-19th centuries: with a focus on the political, symbolic, and intellectual function of collecting and of collections, including the use of collections for reinterpreting the past for new purposes -
Kristian Jensen -the audience is key in the collaboration
A home that became a museum housing its owner's collection.
Soane’s inventive use of light, space and his experimentation with the forms of Classical architecture earned him great success as an architect. During his career, he won numerous high-profile projects, including the Bank of England (where he was an architect for 45 years) and Dulwich Picture Gallery, and created his own extraordinary home and Museum on Lincoln’s Inn Fields. His successes as an architect and his fascination with the history of architecture led to his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1806. Already an enthusiastic collector, he began to repurpose his home at Lincoln’s Inn Fields as a Museum for students of architecture.
The museum of the Home
The museum of the Home, once the Geffrye’s collection has a fine collection of domestic and everyday, which would be a good place to search for domestic magic, and the sort of things that are collected in the home.
I thought about what I could do there and reviewed my options- link to Blog
'Museum of the Home: Extended Research for unit 3 and Possible Professional Practice'
