Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Art Without Borders


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.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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.