Exhibition

Stephen Palmer: Worthless little tokens

25 Oct 2007 – 17 Nov 2007

Regular hours

Thursday
12:00 – 17:00
Friday
12:00 – 17:00
Saturday
12:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
12:00 – 17:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Gateshead
England, United Kingdom

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  • Nearest bus station: Gateshead Interchange
  • Nearest Metro station: Gateshead Metro
  • Nearest Railway station: Newcastle Central
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Stephen Palmer: Worthless little tokens

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Worthless little tokens is a series of paintings cataloguing a collection of free, found and received objects ' matchboxes picked up in pubs or in the street, pens received through the post from charities and credit card companies as an incentive to sign up to a particular product or scheme, sugar, salt and sauce sachets collected as mementos of trips to places (and motorway service stations) far and wide. These everyday bits and bobs are arranged in small groups, isolated from their original functional context, and presented as if for scientific or taxonomic classification. Many of these objects feature a logo or design that is a kind of adjunct to the original functional purpose, often in themselves miniature works of art, allusions to distant shores, remarkable feats of creativity, political power and design.

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