Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of soft sculptured toy doll like creatures sold by Xavier Roberts and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978. The doll brand was one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. The characters appeared in many other Cabbage Patch merchandising products ranging from animated cartoons to record albums to board games. According to Roberts, as a 21-year-old art student, he utilized the quilting skills he learned from his mother and the historic technique of "needle molding"
David Roberts (art collector) Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Yinka Shonibare, David Shrigley, John Stezaker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Oscar Tuazon, Danh Vo, Mark Wallinger, Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, Franz West. In 2007, Roberts founded DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation), a non-profit centre for contemporary art in central London. He appointed curator Vincent Honoré to direct a programme or exhibitions, performances and events open free to the public. DRAF originally occupied a gallery space on Great Titchfield Street in Fitzrovia. It moved in 2012 to its current headquarters in Mornington Crescent, a 19th-century converted furniture factory with 500 sq m exhibition space on the ground