Alternatively, you can simply shop. The works on show include furniture, textiles, sculpture, drawings, ceramics and glass. The selected pieces have been divided into three groups as though they are being shown in three different rooms. Enjoy the experience. The circularity of these definitions is hard to break and can make art a self-reverential and therefore exclusive business, somewhat unwelcoming to the outsider.
Artistic activity is, however, fundamental to the human condition.
Our evidence is that art has existed for as long as homo sapiens has made a community, however small, and a home, however modest and transitory. We have always decorated out living spaces and such decoration has been defined in cultural terms as having religious or ritual elements or in secular terms as indicating an aesthetic function in the human brain. Control over our environment appears to be a fundamental element of the human condition and our desire for domination can be interpreted in very simple terms, for instance, the planting of a flower garden for purely decorative purpose. The motivation of the artist is to communicate private ideas through a visual medium which is accessible to others. Temporary, short-term art often the limits the possibility of this communication by its very nature.