Both Angela Tait and Eileen Agar are avid collectors of curiosities that one day, may make their way into an artwork. Tait’s response to Agar began with a visit to the Egyptology collection at the Manchester Museum. Agar had an interest in Egyptian artefacts and visited the Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum in the 1970s. Tait also remembers visiting this exhibition as a child. In her shared affinity with Agar, Tait has created a series of shabtis to serve Agar in the afterlife. Shabtis are funerary statues that were buried with the dead. Their purpose was to work for the deceased in the afterlife. She felt Agar might make use of a set of these as creative and personal assistants in their own eternity.
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