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  • Five years of kdoutsiderart: a celebration

    Five years of kdoutsiderart: a celebration

    Happy New Year! January 2017 is an exciting time for kdoutsiderart.com, as it marks 5 years since the very very first blog post! To mark this occasion, there will be two exciting things happening over the next couple of months. Before I go into these, I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all of the artists who have shared their work on the blog throughout the past 5 years, and a big thanks also goes to all of you readers – you’ve all given me reason to carry on writing when I felt I was sending stuff out into the abyss!

    To thank you all, and to celebrate five years, I wanted to produce something physical in addition to something that is accessible from all over the world. For this reason, there will be two different exhibitions happening over the next couple of months. The first is a physical exhibition in Brighton, UK, showcasing the work of Scottish artist Steve Murison, and the second is an online exhibition featuring work by many of the artists who have appeared on this blog over the past five years. 

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    Jazz Up Your Lizard: an exhibition of work by Steve Murison
    Gallery Lock In, Brighton, United Kingdom
    1st – 5th February 2017

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    A Lizard Hung by a Sickly Moon

    I am so pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of work by Scottish artist Steve Murison in collaboration with Gallery Lock In, Brighton (UK) in early February to mark the 5 year anniversary of the blog.

    I have been a big fan of Steve’s work ever since I first saw it at Creative Future’s Impact Art Fair in 2013. Since then, I have featured Steve’s work on kdoutsiderart, and have a steadily growing collection of it at home. Steve’s work is vibrant, somewhat naive in form, but incredibly deep in content. His characters take the form of animals – real and fantastical, and his pieces are tagged with comical but relatable titles.

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    A Petrified Heart in a Splintered Box

    The exhibition opens on 1st February 2017, 7 – 9pm.
    It continues from 2nd – 5th February, 1 – 7pm daily.

    Gallery Lock In
    Little Western Street
    Brighton
    BN1 2PU

    Click here for more information on Gallery Lock In

    kdoutsiderart: 5 years
    Online exhibition
    Opens 1st January 2017

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    Jenifer Renzel, Totem Pointing East

    I am equally as pleased to announce the launch of a new online exhibition to mark the anniversary. ‘kdoutsiderart: 5 Years’ will feature work by many of the artists who have had artists’ showcases on the blog since its inception. I asked each artist to send an image of their work to be included in the online display as thank you for sharing their work at some point over the past 5 years.

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    Red Tweny, Looking out on the Balcony

    The exhibition is incredibly diverse, including mixed media pieces, paintings, drawings, computer-generated art and sculpture.

    Click here to visit the online exhibition

  • CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS: Redefining Outsider Art

    CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS: Redefining Outsider Art

    REDEFINING OUTSIDER ART: LOOKING AT LANGUAGE
    AN ONLINE EXHIBITION LOOKING AT THE TERM OUTSIDER ART AND WHAT IT MEANS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

    Call out for submissions to an online exhibition focusing on the term outsider art and what it means to YOU as an artist.

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    Bill Traylor, Brown Mule, 1939 [source: http://www.petulloartcollection.org]
    kdoutsiderart.com regularly focuses on the ambiguities of the term outsider art and what potential impact it might have on the artists it aims to ‘define.’ In late 2015, I posted a blog that outlined the thoughts of six artists who find themselves housed under this ‘outsider’ umbrella. Following on from this, I’d like to expand this idea, and am inviting artists who might in some way align themselves with the term outsider art to tell me what they think. I’d like to know what you think of the term outsider art, and – if you have an idea – what a better term might be.

    I’m looking for responses in a variety of media – using words, images, sculpture, performance, sound – to contribute to an online exhibition challenging the term outsider art. Unlike other conversations around the term, I’d like us to work together to break down the term outsider art and for you to really think about what it means to you as an artist. By providing real-life responses from artists as well as potential alternatives, we can be a positive addition to the continuing conversation.

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    Submissions
    Submitted work must be in a digital format – this can be images, a sound or movie file, or a PDF or Word Document. Each artist can submit one piece, and all pieces must be accompanied with a brief description of how it relates to the continuing conversation around outsider art. Please email all submissions to kdoutsiderart@yahoo.com by 1st July 2016.