Congratulations to all members of the the Esk Collection who held their final meeting last week after 10 years of collecting contemporary Australian Art. The group celebrated it's wind up with a dinner at Stillwater followed by an auction of the collection, which dispersed the 51 collected works amongst it's 30 members.
To quote Peter Timms, "The Esk Collection Group demonstrates that collecting, rather than being competitive or obsessive, can be a cooperative and exploratory pursuit, focused not upon the endless amassing of things (having) but on the individual experiences they offer up (being). Here we are presented with a very good example of collecting as a conduit for the development of taste and discrimination. For what it's worth. Freud would certainly have approved."
