On the Inside of 'Outsider' Art
Tuesday 10th December, 6.30pm
The Ortus Centre
http://www.maudsleylearning.com/ortus-location/
In the light of recent, high profile exhibitions including the Biennale di Venezia's 'Encyclopaedic Palace', the Hayward Gallery's 'The Alternative Guide to the Universe' and the Wellcome Collection's 'Souzou, Outsider Art from Japan', it seems an opportune moment to revisit the terms used to describe the art produced in mental health contexts and the people who produce it.
Guest Speakers:
Professor Lisa Blackman
Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College
Lisa Blackman's work in the area of embodiment and voice hearing has been recognised and commended for its innovative approach to mental health research and it has been acclaimed by the Hearing Voices Network, Intervoice, and has been taken up in professional psychiatric contexts.
Her most recent publication is 'Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation' (2012, Sage).
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/blackman
Roger Cardinal
Roger Cardinal wrote the first book about Art Brut in 1972, with the title Outsider Art. In 1979, he co-curated with Victor Musgrave the pioneering
Outsiders exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. His writings on self-taught art include Primitive Painters (1978) and the co-authored Marginalia. Perspectives
on Outsider Art (2001), as well as essays on the Outsider Aesthetic, Outsider Architecture, Autistic Art, Prison Art, Memory Painting, and many studies of
individual Outsiders. He is currently preparing a monograph on Madge Gill.
Sue Morgan
Low level metaphysical maverick with visual skills.
Sue studied biology, philosophy and the history & philosophy of science at Cambridge. She completed a doctorate in German
philosophy and worked in the city as a corporate tax lawyer before being forced to retire, at the age of 37, because of a diagnosis of schizo-affective
disorder. It was during time spent in hospitals that she started working visually. She gained a first class degree in drawing at Camberwell in 2008, was a finalist for the DLA Piper Art Award in 2009 and is now a gallery artist with Sarah Myerscough Fine Art. She regularly shows work with The Bethlem Gallery.
Dr David O'Flynn
David O'Flynn is a Consultant Rehabilitation Psychiatrist with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has been a Trustee of the Adamson Collection Trust since 1997 and its Chair since 2006. He is Senior Psychiatric Adviser to the Adamson Centre for Professional Practice at the University of Roehampton, London
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/about-us/art-and-history/the-adamson-collection
Tuesday 10th December, 6.30pm
The Ortus Centre
http://www.maudsleylearning.com/ortus-location/
In the light of recent, high profile exhibitions including the Biennale di Venezia's 'Encyclopaedic Palace', the Hayward Gallery's 'The Alternative Guide to the Universe' and the Wellcome Collection's 'Souzou, Outsider Art from Japan', it seems an opportune moment to revisit the terms used to describe the art produced in mental health contexts and the people who produce it.
Guest Speakers:
Professor Lisa Blackman
Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College
Lisa Blackman's work in the area of embodiment and voice hearing has been recognised and commended for its innovative approach to mental health research and it has been acclaimed by the Hearing Voices Network, Intervoice, and has been taken up in professional psychiatric contexts.
Her most recent publication is 'Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation' (2012, Sage).
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/blackman
Roger Cardinal
Roger Cardinal wrote the first book about Art Brut in 1972, with the title Outsider Art. In 1979, he co-curated with Victor Musgrave the pioneering
Outsiders exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. His writings on self-taught art include Primitive Painters (1978) and the co-authored Marginalia. Perspectives
on Outsider Art (2001), as well as essays on the Outsider Aesthetic, Outsider Architecture, Autistic Art, Prison Art, Memory Painting, and many studies of
individual Outsiders. He is currently preparing a monograph on Madge Gill.
Sue Morgan
Low level metaphysical maverick with visual skills.
Sue studied biology, philosophy and the history & philosophy of science at Cambridge. She completed a doctorate in German
philosophy and worked in the city as a corporate tax lawyer before being forced to retire, at the age of 37, because of a diagnosis of schizo-affective
disorder. It was during time spent in hospitals that she started working visually. She gained a first class degree in drawing at Camberwell in 2008, was a finalist for the DLA Piper Art Award in 2009 and is now a gallery artist with Sarah Myerscough Fine Art. She regularly shows work with The Bethlem Gallery.
Dr David O'Flynn
David O'Flynn is a Consultant Rehabilitation Psychiatrist with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has been a Trustee of the Adamson Collection Trust since 1997 and its Chair since 2006. He is Senior Psychiatric Adviser to the Adamson Centre for Professional Practice at the University of Roehampton, London
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/about-us/art-and-history/the-adamson-collection