Luke Roberts
Wunderkammer/Kunstkamera
  1994
 


 

A long time ago wealthy people in Europe collected objects and displayed them inside cabinets. The cabinets they used were called ‘Kammer’, and because they were filled with strange and wonderful things, they were called ‘Wunderkammer’. Like them, Luke Roberts collects all sorts of weird and curious things for his own personal museum. Sometimes they are objects with real histories, and other times he makes up stories about them.

Some people collect shells, bottle tops, stamps or Barbie dolls. What do you collect?

   
Luke Roberts
Wunderkammer/Kunstkamera (detail) 1994
Purchased 1995. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
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