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“Collection Count + Care” seeks relationships within and conversations across the collection. What stories does the collection tell? / “Prise en compte, prise à cœur” cherche à tisser des liens et des dialogues entre les œuvres de la collection. Quelles histoires la collection raconte-t-elle?
Speaker / Présentatrice
Charlotte Gagnier, Program Coordinator at Agnes Etherington Art Centre / coordinatrice de programmes au Musée d’art Agnes Etherington
Works / Œuvres
David Milne, “Wicker Chair” / “Fauteuil en vannerie,” 1914, oil on canvas / huile sur toile. Bequest of Mrs J. P. Barwick, 1985 / Legs de Mme J. P. Barwick, 1985
Allyson Mitchell, “Old Rosie” / “Vieille Rosie,” 2000, fun fur / fourrure amusante. Gift of Paul Petro, 2010 / Don de Paul Petro, 2010
Maud Darling, “Crazy Quilt” / “Courtepointe à pointes folles,” around / vers 1900, silk and cotton / soie et coton. Gift of Margaret Cliff, 1990 / Don de Margaret Cliff, 1990
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https://agnes.queensu.ca/site/uploads…”Collection Count + Care” seeks relationships within and conversations across the collection. What stories does the collection tell? / “Prise en compte, prise à cœur” cherche à tisser des liens et des dialogues entre les œuvres de la collection. Quelles histoires la collection raconte-t-elle? …
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>> My name is Charlotte Gagnier and I’m the
Program Coordinator at Agnes.
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So this iteration of “Count + Care” asks us to think
about the stories that these works have to tell
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and the conversations they
might be having with each other.
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Now of course, whenever you visit an exhibition
your experience is coloured by your memories
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and who you are and your experiences.
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But what I especially love about this
grouping is we’ve been given a chance
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to actually add these thoughts to the wall,
so when you visit there is a clipboard
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and you can actually write down your
own interpretation of this grouping.
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So when I look around, these three works make
me think of childhood and playfulness
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and exploring things and
learning about the world.
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So when I look at David Milne’s
work, I think about, you know,
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spending time with grandparents reading.
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And I look at Allison Mitchell’s “Old Rosie”
and, you know, I think about exploration work.
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We’re actually allowed to touch this piece.
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I also had a cat called Rosie growing
up so it makes me think of that.
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It’s just these little personal things
that don’t necessarily need to mean anything
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to anyone else but they mean something to me.
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And when I look at Maude
Darling’s “Crazy Quilt”,
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it makes me think of spending hours
looking at “Where’s Waldo” books as a kid
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or on a road trip looking out the
window and counting things that we spotted
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with my parents and my siblings.
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As part of this exhibition, we created
an activity booklet for all ages
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that we really hope captures
some of this playfulness.
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It’s available at Agnes and there’s
a few different activities in there
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but one of them is an I-Spy, so I think I’d
like to spend a little bit of time reading
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that to you and then giving you a chance to
see if you can spot these things as well.
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I spy a cat and three hats, a swan and a
shell, a butterfly, a beaver,
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and the name Estelle, Abbie,
and Annie, a trillium, a hen,
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a big and small frog and eight letters M.
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