An artist has opened and managed an art gallery inside a telephone box in central London.
Degard, the owner of the Visionary British Museum – sat in a telephone box outside the British Museum, has been longing for years to build a visionary community and develop the genre of it as an artistic practice.
As manning a gallery in central London is a huge challenge, where some galleries have gone bankrupt, the story of the Visionary British Museum begins when Degard saw a £30,000 telephone box on Rightmove.
“Despite the fact that the phone box is bijou and compact, it meant that I could start the conversation in a more physical way, which is very important.”
When she bought the telephone box and had the paperwork, she chuckled and said: “Obviously, lawyers looking at the paperwork for a telephone box said, ‘this is very unusual’.”
Since the Grade ll telephone box cannot be moved, the location has given Degard a perfect place to work with the British Museum which has a variety of visionary art displayed in the museum as well.
“The telephone box gives just enough space to describe the concepts that we are approaching.
“There’s a beauty to the fact that it is public furniture, people feel an ownership and there is no hesitancy to come in,” said Degard.
A security camera is also installed inside the telephone box, and Degard finds it fascinating to see people’s different reactions towards the exhibited artwork.
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Feature image credit: Cathy Chen
