The home of the Shopping Trolley Gallery and the portal to
the United Queendom of Retailia

 

 

Artistamps Show
2009-11
Field Study
International
Artwork I have sent Artwork Received United Queendom
of Retailia
In order to see this site as I have designed it, you need to install in your machine the Mailart font which I have used for the main titles. This was a project by Keith Bates and can be downloaded for free from his site.

 

 

The Artistamps  Show 2010-2011

has made it to The British Postal Museum and Archive,
and it has been also shown on the front steps of the Tate Britain, London.
Please follow the Shopping Trolley Gallery above to see the show and for the link to the Museum

 

 

The United Queendom of Retailia

is finally on the map! Please do visit anytime, tea time is best ...The Queen is partial to fruit cakes.

 

    The Shopping Trolley Gallery
and Mail Art    
  last revision March 2011

MAIL ART '... has no history, only a present'     Ray Johnson

 

Mail Art is the present, the gift, of any artwork that can be sent by post. Handmade postcards, photocopies, computer prints, collages, paintings, drawings, constructions, found objects, anything you wish. Mail Art is whatever you want to make of it. Some people are very serious and work on themes related to saving the world, others just have fun, which also helps to save the world, at least from depression and despair. To join the network of mail artists the only thing you need to do is to answer an invitation and do some artwork yourself

The organizing artist will send documentation of the event to all the participants, which will consist of some kind of report so senders would know what happened to their artwork.

You can go to my links and from there to one of the sites listed as publishing calls and choose something that appeals to you. I am afraid that I tried to put calls up but could not find the time to keep up to date, so I am grateful to those of us who manage so well their sites. 

After a while of answering calls you will start to receive invitations directly and then you will know you are part of the Eternal Network of Mail Artists too! Later on, if you like, you can initiate your own projects and post the invitations in these websites. You could have a place to show and then produce some form of documentation. Some people are lucky and have a place like a café, a shop, or manage to get a school involved but others show in very odd places, perhaps their hat or their front door. Also you can make  artists' books or make use of any other devise to collate the artwork received.

So far I have shown Mail Art on several venues but the main one has been my shopping trolley, the STG-UK, and a bag dedicated to Mail Art, the Handbag Gallery, as back up. In time no amount of back up could help the STG because the amount of contributions to the projects became too much for it to carry so that resulted in its retirement, although occasionally it does guest appearances.

to find out more about its history, keep pushing the Shopping Trolley Gallery along 

    
 1996/7  1998/99  2000/01  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006 
     
2007 2008-9 2010-11

 

   

 

 

 

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