“Eloquent Visions: Outsider and Visionary Art”

Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham [England] is set to showcase the cream of international outsider and visionary artists in a forthcoming exhibition. Seven years on from its groundbreaking show Private Worlds: Outsider and Visionary Art, which helped promote this previously marginalised form of creativity to a wider public, Outsider Art has become widely known through high profile exhibitions, recently the Inner Worlds Outside exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery, London. Art critic Roger Cardinal coined the term “Outsider Art” in 1972 as the English equivalent of Dubuffet’s term “Art Brut” (which translates as “Raw Art” or “Rough Art”). Outsider Art encompasses creative practitioners working outside of the artistic mainstream untouched by taste and fashion. These artists, which include people with mental and emotional issues, self-taught / naive / folk artists as well as visionaries, often create work as a form of inner necessity or compulsion. Read Article