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Michael Golby reflects on some artistic encounters

Are you a collector?

Michael Golby reflects on some artistic encounters

by Michael Golby 11th January 2013

‘Are you a collector?’ asked the pleasant lady attendant in a new ‘gallery’ in Exeter’s swanky new shopping centre.

‘He’s very collectible just now, Rolf Harris’, she said. ‘He is eighty-three after all.’