
Monash University's art museum in Victoria (Campbelltown Arts Centre NSW in Aug) is about to host an intriguing collection of what's known as ‘outsider art’ - created by Australian and NZ artists who are driven to express their individuality in painting, sculpture, photography, books, film and animation - outside the art world.
The idiosyncratic styles of these artists just don't fit within any categories of mainstream cultural production. Which raises the question of just how/who decides what will be taken up & promoted as the next Big Thing. After all, collectors now pay millions for the images of Jean-Michel Basquiat, & more recently Banksy - who both started off as `outsider artists'.
Exhib. opens 16 April - 21 June 2008.
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I'll be sure to attend this Julie, and here's a related program produced by our colleague Sherre Delys for All in the Mind.
Outsider Art feature broadcast in 2006.
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