Temporary Custodians Platform

Temporary Custodians Platform

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The Project The product will be an interactive website that provides a platform for private collections, including the collections of a sample of small to medium-sized collectors: ‘Temporary Custodians of Islington Mill’, namely a collectively-owned artwork created by Carlin and currently held by 80 individuals, primarily located across the North West (NW). The website will host an innovative and accessible participatory public database of artworks, forming an important new cultural resource for the region. This project aims to disrupt the current art market and collecting system, which limits notions of success for artists, concentrates wealth and opportunity in large urban international centres such as London and excludes all but the wealthiest tiers of society. This project will prototype an alternative collaborative model, by bringing together the burgeoning collector community in…
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