Collection (noun)

  • The action or process of collecting
  • A groups of things collected or accumulated, Collectable (Adj)
  • Worth collecting
  • Able to be collected, Collective (Adj)
  • Done by or belonging to all the members of a group

The exhibition brief was for each artist to construct a number of quilts to fit within a defined area on the theme 'Collections', it could be a literal interpretation of a personal collection or whatever an individual sees as a collection. As in other tACTile exhibitions there is a collaborative component to this exhibition.

We are all collectors of something, look around and see how many collections surround you, it may be shoes, plants in the garden, books, buttons, rusty bottle tops, nails or a collection of interesting shapes, when two or more like objects are grouped together a collection begins

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