Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester: Symposium - Intuition
9 October 2010 15:00 — 17:00
Whitworth Art Gallery Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER
Symposium: Saturday 9 October, 2010: 13.00 - 17.00: Free event
Intuition exhibition: 26 June 2010 - 9 January 2011
Invited speakers: Matthew Higgs, Director of White Columns, New York; Jon Thompson, artist, influential art educationalist, curator and writer.
In 2010 the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection was presented to the Whitworth Art Gallery, the gift was facilitated by the Contemporary Art Society. Intuition, curated by Bryony Bond, is the first exhibition to be drawn from the collection. For the Symposium, Director of the Whitworth, Maria Balshaw will discuss, with the invited speakers the changing relationship of outsider art to the mainstream art system.
Matthew Higgs has a long-standing relationship with the Creative Growth Art Centre, California, a centre for adult artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, and has shown work by the centre's artists at White Columns, one of New York's oldest and most prestigious non-profit galleries where he is the Director/Chief Curator.
Link to the White Columns website here.
Responsible for the development of Goldsmiths College as the centre of new talent in this country and curator of significant exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, Jon Thompson has also been closely associated with the development of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection and curated the exhibition Inner Worlds Outside in 2006, which sought to demonstrate the parallels between 'insider' and 'outsider' work.
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Intuition 2010
Intuition 2010
Intuition 2010
Alexander Georgiou Perifimou Lost on the Frontiers of Hell and Paradise (detail), Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection 1982
Chris Hipkiss An Other Han (detail), Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection 1998
Madge Gill Untitled (detail), Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection 1939
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
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