What is a Cabinet of Curiosities?
An introduction to cabinets of curiosities, what they contained, what their purposes were and why they fell out of fashion in the late 18th Century.
An introduction to cabinets of curiosities, what they contained, what their purposes were and why they fell out of fashion in the late 18th Century.
The Far Away, DreamWorld North was one of the first places I stumbled upon when I returned to Second Life in 2021 to explore abandoned places, isolated landscapes, the old and decaying and forgotten corners of virtual worlds as part of a cyber-landscape art project I’d been thinking about…
One day, while I was painting something completely different, I decided to create my own cabinet of curiosities using printed collage pieces of rare, unusual and intriguing objects I had collected on Pinterest
I visited the ‘Reflections of Japan in East Yorkshire’ exhibition at the weekend at Treasure House in Beverley, East Yorkshire. Here are some of the exhibits…