The Australian Collection of Outsider Art

Cover of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art
1.126
Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
Feature
Balamohan Shingade

Published 01 September 2018
1.126
Human flow in Melanesia: Taloi Havini's artefacts and habitats
Feature
Nicholas Thomas

Published 01 September 2018
1.122
Living and dying under surveillance: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
Feature
Sasha Grbich

Published 01 September 2018
Axolotl
1.122
Inhuman flow: Censorship and art in the two Chinas
Feature
Darren Jorgensen and Tami Xiang

Published 01 September 2018
1.124
Sublime Plight: Richard Mosse, Ai Weiwei and the social turn
Feature
Wes Hill

Published 01 September 2018
1.3
YARN: The art of conversation
Feature

Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

Published June 2018
Joondalup
1.126
Editorial: Kanarn Wangkiny/Wanggandi Karlto (Speaking from Inside)
Feature
Clothilde Bullen with James Tylor

Published 01 June 2018
1.276
Katie West: Living well
Feature
Katie West

Published 01 June 2018

Outsider Artists in Australia? Of course. The phenomenon is universal.

Buy Now   or   Subscribe
Artlink App in iTunes
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
Support independent writing on the visual arts. Subscribe or donate here.

More from this Issue Full Issue Contents

Tivaevae
Book Review
Susan Cochrane

Book review Tivaevae: Portraits of Cook Island Quilting
By Lynnsay Rongokea
Photographs John Daley
Published Daphne Brussell Assocs Press Wellington New Zealand

Published December 1992
The World in Talc
Feature
Malcolm McKinnon

Looks at the works of Talc Alf working in Lyndhurst South Australia.

Published December 1992
The Chronic Population
Feature
Anthony Mannix

Art Brut is that manner of making something whereby all of the individual is.

Published December 1992
Masterminded Masterpieces: Legendary Art
Feature
Rimas Riauba

Mrs Iris Frame is going to be bigger than Elvis Presley. She told the author so herself. Her dream is to establish a museum of her life's work on her property just like Gracelands.

Published December 1992
Self, Image and the Gaze: Anna Platten
Review
Jude Adams

Exhibition review Works by Anna Platten: Paintings and Studies 1982 -1992
University of South Australia Art Museum
30 July - 29 August 1992

Published December 1992
Ciao from Canberra
Feature
Anne Virgo

Hidden in the neat suburban streets of Canberra are the sculptures of Giacomo Rampone. Superbly crafted from steel and cement, these sculptures adorn the front gardens of each of Rampone's homes past and present.

Published December 1992
The Boundary Riders: The Art of Everyday Life
Feature
Sylvia Kleinert

The diversity of work found in the art of everyday life transgresses many of the implicit boundaries about art practice laid down by the art world. Other art meets all the criteria by which we usually evaluate art works such as skill, commitment and self-expression yet is rarely seen in a gallery context. In order to recover meaning and value for the art of everyday life the question must be asked: why have these artists been marginalised by the art world?

Published December 1992
Desire Caught by the Tail: Jyanni Steffenson
Review
Leon Marvell

Exhibition review it (ca) speaks...it (ca) sucks. "i(t) too was drag(g)ed into this sub-plot"
Installation by Jyanni Steffensen
Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
6 August - 6 September 1992

Published December 1992
Arts Project Australia: Creativity, Marginality and the Politics of Difference
Feature
Chris McAuliffe

Arts Project Australia was formed in Melbourne in 1974 as an advocacy group for artists with an intellectual disability. The initial aim of the organisationwas to gather a comprehensive collections of artworks from centres in Victoria working with people with an intellectual disability.

Published December 1992
Nothing if Not Innocent
Feature
Victoria Coles

Artists of the modern era have always been fascinated by the primitive, be it the obsession of the surrealists, futurists and modernists for the art of the Negro, the passion of a handful of British in the 60s for the work of the Cornish primitive Alfred Wallis or Jean Dubuffet's exploration of children's art and the art of the asylum which he termed Art Brut.

Published December 1992
Reflections on Being: Being and Nothingness
Review
Penny Mason

Exhibition review Being and Nothingness
Works by Bea Maddock
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Launceston
August 1992

Published December 1992
Frank 'Bronco' Johnson - The Poetics of Defence
Feature
Paul Hoban

He was always delighted to be fighting with someone....

Published December 1992
 
Artlink Subs Promo
NAVA
PICA
UTS
Artlink Promo