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Category Archives: Exhibitions
Creaky clockwork collection at the Art Workers Guild 2025
What do strange scissors, miniature beds, creaky clockwork, novelty erasers, tools of the stuccatore and coffin photos all have in common? They’re some of the thirty subjects of obscure enthusiasms who appeared, with their owners, one day recently in Bloomsbury … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Exhibitions
Tagged Art Workers Guild, children's drawings, clockwork, clockwork dinosaur, clockwork toys, creaky, keys, Mike Leigh, Robotina Finds Out, robots, Table Top Museums, toys
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Eyes
This summer has been a time of SK eye adjustments. Frustrating as initial eye surgery took longer than expected to heal. Addition surgery tbc. But hopefully the end result will be improved eye power, although currently time looking at a … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Exhibitions
Tagged Art Workers Guild, clockwork eyes, exhibitions, eye power, eye surgery, eyes, GORT, London events, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Table Top Museum
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Sally Kindberg at the Artworkers Guild Table Top Museum
On October 12th I joined thirty other collectors of the obscure and intriguing and showed a collection of objects again at the Artworkers Guild . This time a selection of relics, votives and a shrine dedicated to Dandy comic’s Desperate … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged Artworkers Guild, Beano, comic strips, comics, Dandy, DC Thomson, Desperate Dan, Dudley D Watkins, Hair, relics, votives
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Sally Kindberg displays Surprise Packaging at the Art Workers Guild Table Top Museums event
Last weekend I added my Museum of Surprise Packaging to twenty-nine other collections of the strange and wonderful for one day only at an annual Art Workers Guild special event, the Table Top Museums. Last year I displayed my Museum … Continue reading
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Tagged Artworkers Guild, Bloomsbury, collections, Open House, packaging, Surprise Packaging, Table Top Museums
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Sally Kindberg, a St Francis exhibition and the Isle of Arran
Last week I visited the National Gallery to see an exhibition about St Francis of Assisi, which I recommend. The image detail above is by Craigie Aitchison showing St Francis with two doves visiting the island of Arran. Inspired by … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, Travels
Tagged Arran, Craigie Aitchison, Holy Isle, Marvel comics, National Gallery, saints
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Sally Kindberg visits a Yayoi Kusama takeover at Harrods (on a Tuesday)
I love polka dots! Yesterday (a Tuesday btw) I headed for Harrods where images of artist Yayoi Kusama took over over some of the store, including outside and in the store windows, with the help of Louis Vuitton. What fun! … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Exhibitions
Tagged artist as brand, artist merchandise, Draw It!, Harrods, Knightsbridge, Louis Vuitton, polka dots, synaesthesia, women artists, Yayoi Kusama
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Sally Kindberg’s Museum of Dust again
After its journey from Cornwall to the Art Workers Guild this summer, my small, travelling Museum of Dust is now at Swedenborg House, from December 10th but check Swedenborg House for opening times.
Sally Kindberg’s 2017 notebook, Swedenborgian dust, and a missing tortoise?
Recently I looked at one of my notebooks from 2017 which recorded an exploratory visit to Swedenborg House, and another with its director. A pencilled note on a Post-It fell out of the notebook’s pages and I can’t remember the … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Exhibitions, Museum of Dust, Notebooks
Tagged Magic Lantern Society, map, Museum of Dust, notebooks, Swedenborg, Swedenborg House, visual diary, workshops
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