Outsiders

Sanford Darling’s Lagoon

March 15, 2010 Art+Psyche
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Sanford Darling Lagoon Latex on composition board, 125 x 125 cm (approx) Here’s another lovely image from the 2010 Outsider Art calendar that was a present from my friend Ardsley. This one, Sanford Darling’s Lagoon, is for the month of February. (You can see January’s image here.) My guess this work is one of the [...]

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Jose dos Santos – Snakes at Callan Park Gallery

February 6, 2010 Art+Psyche
Jose dos Santos - Snake

The quality of these two images is not great. I’m not sure what was happening, but I visited the exhibition at about the time I was starting to feel unwell last year, so maybe this went with the territory – as possibly does the subject. Callan Park Gallery held a show titled Snakes last November, [...]

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Avoiding the Void at Dunningham Dax

February 1, 2010 Art+Psyche
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Joan Rodriquez Isolation Charcoal and Conte on paper A new exhibition at Cunningham Dax is due to open next week in Melbourne, and I regret not being able to get there for it. According to the flyer: Avoiding the Void features works from the Cunningham Dax Collection which reflect and engage with existential ideas and [...]

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William Hawkins – Rearing Stud Horse

January 31, 2010 Art+Psyche
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William Hawkins Untitled (Rearing Stud Horse) Enamel on Masonite, 122 x 144 cm (approx) I have been enjoying this William Hawkins image during January, during a time of upheaval and a move to a temporary location, due to our upcoming renovation. (We’re now on the eleventh floor of an apartment block in Woollahra, from which [...]

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Susan King at Callan Park Gallery

October 24, 2009 Art+Psyche

I am now the proud owner of number 892/2000 in the first edition of Susan King’s comic book, which I bought at her recent exhibition at the Callan Park Gallery. Here’s a snippet from the book, brimming with energy and much strangeness. According to the comic: Susan stopped talking around the age of 4. But [...]

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Paul Sedgwick at Callan Park

October 16, 2009 Art+Psyche

Ok, this one’s not obviously about Bali, yet in another way it is. This is a work by Paul Sedgwick (2006) that I saw at the recent exhibition of works from the Peter Fay collection at the Callan Park Gallery. I photographed it then, but wasn’t initially moved. Yet this strange canvas has been working [...]

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Reece Tong at Callan Park

September 2, 2009 Art+Psyche

More work from the Peter Fay collection, at Callan Park Gallery in August – here’s Reece Tong (born 1968) with two energetic paintings. Reece Tong Bird Seed Reece Tong National Park Trees I love the way the graphic elements in these works float in a void field – whorls (possibly in the sense of these [...]

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The Psyche and Art exhibition (World Psychiatric Association)

September 1, 2009 Art+Psyche

Woke this morning to an email from James F. Kadlec requesting me link to the Psyche and Art exhibition project of the World Psychiatric Association, which I’m very happy to do. According to the prospectus, this was: An exhibition for the World Psychiatric Association 11th International Congress commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the organization, this [...]

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Christian Den Besten at Callan Park

August 22, 2009 Art+Psyche

I visited Callan Park Gallery today to see works from the Peter Fay collection. Peter has a wonderful collection of outsider art, and this was just a small selection. Here’s a little work from the show that caught my eye, by an artist I know almost nothing about (except that I hear he lives in [...]

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Rosemarie Koczy at Callan Park Gallery

July 29, 2009 Art+Psyche

I visited the Rosemarie Koczy exhibition at Callan Park Gallery last Saturday and was moved by her works on paper – 21 in all, in her Holocaust memorial I am Weaving You a Shroud. Rosemarie Koczy (1939-2007) Uzbekistan Book and Genevieve Roulin’s Operation, 2000 Ink on paper, both 27 x 35 cm The blog My [...]

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