COLLECT

We went to COLLECT at the Saatchi Gallery, as we do every year.   I have spent the week puzzling about where the boundary lies between the Crafts and Luxury Goods.   It’s true the demarcation lines are being blurred as the Crafts go upmarket, are more expensive, are used for purposes of display, and lose the puritan and utilitarian tradition.   It’s probably because there are high charges to exhibit, but I miss a gallery like Cold Press in Holt, which would introduce a touch of desirable austerity.   We liked the work of a Japanese jeweller called Kimiaki Kageyama, represented by SO Gallery in Brick Lane:-

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