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A fabric sculpture of a stereo with a cassette player

Everyday Imagining: New Perspectives on Outsider Art

When

This exhibition has now ended.

Location

The Potter Museum of Art, Cnr of Swanston St and Masson Rd, Parkville

The work of Outsider artists is often interpreted as expressing a unique inner vision unsullied by social or cultural influences. Everyday Imagining: New Perspectives on Outsider Art counters this view by presenting Australian and New Zealand contemporary artists whose works reveal their proactive engagement with the external world.

While there is much debate about the use of the term ‘outsider art’, this exhibition didn’t aim to resolve ambiguities around its relevance or definition. Instead, it questioned a key interpretive bias of the term – a legacy of its origins in art brut.

Curated by Joanna Bosse.

Exhibiting artists

Andrew Blythe, Kellie Greaves, Julian Martin, Jack Napthine, Lisa Reid, Martin Thompson, and Terry Williams.

A painting with a black background and a word no and a cross in white of various sizes filling the canvas
A fabric sculpture of an old-fashioned telephone
A green nd white abstract drawing with kaleidoscope-like pattern. Two parts, left and right, appear to be inversions of each other.

  1. Banner Image:

    Terry Williams, Stereo 2011, vinyl fabric, cotton, stuffing and fibre-tipped pen , 21 x 43 x 14 cm. Private collection, Melbourne. Courtesy of the artist and Arts Project Australia, Melbourne.