Alsager Gallery, Manchester Met
2002
Outside the Archive, 2002

Responce
- Margins

Light Sensations
Clutter
Growth
Off the Shelf

Outside the Archive
- Second Hand Suits

Poetic Possesions
Archival Silence
Just the Ticket

Collections

 

 

 

 

We all do it, we pick up stuff and think, "I could make something really interesting with that" and it goes on a shelf or in a pile in a corner and it becomes… Clutter!
Clutter is not merely a physical condition but also an mental state, often a point reached when too many works exist within and need to be "exorcised" in order for further progress to be made.
In 2002 Sarah Nicholson created a new body of work exploring the relationship between collection the multiple and the miniature from a feminist/feminised perspective for exhibition at the Alsager Gallery, in the Manchester Metropolitan University’s Crewe and Alsager campus. As I have been invited to exhibit the work several times since, I started re-assessing it.
The original workshops had produced some beautiful small dress maquetes and as an underlaying theme was the gigantic, its opposite, the miniature, appealed to me. One of the
things that appeals to individuals who collect is the miniature object with all its connotations of containment and control - themes relevant to fairytales and the media also - getting the whole set - completion, resolution of a desire. This led me to create a range of collectable miniatures of the gigantic dresses, multiples easily remade over and over in a production line manner.

 

 

 

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