The Dreamwork Collection is a Collection of the ‘diasporic imagination’ and its adjacencies.
It is a house museum in perpetual exile, constituted through a diasporic lens of kinship with artists and estates.
Here, lifelong friendships with artists, exhibition projects, collaboration, and commission, realized across the globe have led to the consolidation of 4 collections housed under one roof.
The Dreamwork Collection celebrates wayward lives, and narratives that open up scope for the imagination to wander. It houses nearly 1000 works of art inclusive of painting, sculpture, conceptual photography, video, .net art, as well various forms of work on paper from drawing to lithograph, etching, screen print, and collography.
The Collection is consolidated by the coming together of 4 distinct nodes outlined as follows:
The Blake Gallacher Collection of “Post-British” and Commonwealth Art.
The imagine/otherwise Collection for Women in the Arts.
The artPost21 Collection for art, technology and social justice.
The Wedding .Art Registry of Omar Yasser Abdel Kader Kholeif and Francis Vincent James Gallacher.
Alongside these holdings, the Collection houses:
The curatorial papers of British curator, historian, author and artist, Professor Omar Kholeif, PhD.
The archive and writing of Sudanese American poet, Blake Karim Mitchell.
A selection of over 4,000 art books related to artists in the Collection and their adjacencies, collectively constituting: The artPost21 Library.
Various ephemera and archival material.
Further information will be available in due course.