Jean Dubuffet’s gift to the city of Lausanne, the Collection de l’Art Brut is a must-see for anyone with an interest in art outside the cultural mainstream. La Collection De L’Art Brut Long-time Salterton Arts Review followers will know I have a particular interest in so-called Outsider Art. More on nomenclature in a moment but […]
Designed to respond to and expand on a current exhibition at the Royal Academy, Southern Somebodies brings more Black artists from the American South to London. Southern Somebodies Prompted by an interaction with a reader (thank you!), I recently had the opportunity to visit the Gallery of Everything for their exhibition Southern Somebodies. Featuring Black […]
A moving exhibition of art from the Southern United States, Souls Grown Deep Like the River is both thought-provoking and revelatory. Souls Grown Deep Like The River I’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. The […]
A nice selection of works from an Italian collection gives a sense of Morandi beyond the still-life bottles. Giorgio Morandi Before seeing this exhibition about Giorgio Morandi, I was guilty of lazy thinking regarding this mid-century Italian artist. I knew he was born and died in Bologna. I knew he lived all his life with […]
A review of Forrest Bess: Out of the Blue, on at the Camden Art Centre. A captivating (and free) exhibition of work by an artist who straddled the boundary between art world insider and outsider. An Outing To The Camden Art Centre I don’t remember where I came across this exhibition. It might have been […]
A review of the Gallery of Everything’s companion exhibition to the Barbican’s Dubuffet retrospective: The Art of Brut. A great selection of artworks, but it could go further in what it is adding to the larger exhibition. The Art of Brut Shortly after visiting Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty at the Barbican, I received an email […]
A review of the Barbican’s major Dubuffet retrospective. Interesting to see the artist’s inspirations and impact, but not quite the same calibre as their 2020 offerings. Dubuffet, Champion of ‘Art Brut’ I was very excited to be back at the Barbican. Their exhibitions were a real high point on the cultural landscape in inter-lockdown London […]
A review of the Gallery of Everything and their exhibition The Everlasting Mission of Sister Gertrude Morgan. In which I fall in love with the gallery space, and have a fabulous time admiring Sister Gertrude’s artworks. A Foray Into Commercial Gallery Reviews for some Outsider Art The Salterton Arts Review doesn’t often (ever?) review commercial […]
