Press Release.

Press Release

One Man’s Treasure
The Old Art Shop, Middlesex University Cat Hill Campus, Barnet
Tuesday 10th March 2009 – Friday 27th March

One Man’s Treasure is the collaborative work of Louise Fitzjohn and Amy Honour, 2 Fine Art students in their final year of their Bachelors degree at Middlesex University. The two proposed to open the now disused art shop on Cat Hill Campus and run it together as a gallery-come-shop.

Both artists have independantly been working with the idea of value and decided to collaborate on a larger project, one section of the shop is devoted to this idea. Fitzjohn and Honour have gathered thrown away objects and transformed them in to new versions of themselves with the use of other cheap, throw away items, showing that you don’t need to spend a fortune on owning something of value or worth. Infact a bit of TLC and attention are often more valuable. These items are priced with their material costs- the amount of money spent on them, as the minimum price which the customers can pay for them, alongside this is the time which the artist spent working on the item. It is for the customer to decide how much they believe the artists time and work is worth.

The artists use of space again reflects these ideas, they wish to celebrate the use of the space, making it a place of conviviality. With a seating area, interctive pieces and events being held they encourage the participation of others. They also wish to promote other artists work from both within and outside of the arts campus, which they believe could be placed in to the category of affordable and available, yet highly valuable, hand made, limited edition pieces of work.

One Man’s Treasure, is the name for the collaborative projects of Fitzjohn and Honour’s, the shop being the main project with other projects evolving from it. In February the artists set up a stall at the wedding reception of Hayley Dixon and Richard Bernard Grange, there One Man’s Treasure promoted itself. After the shop closes One Man’s Treasure will continue running and expanding with the use of their specially constructed ‘market stall’ and other events/ ideas which will evolve as a natural progression of this work.