Without Borders: Outsider Art in an Antipodean Context

Without Borders considers the place of 'outsider art' and situates the work of Australian and New Zealand artists in an international, trans-historical context. The exhibition focuses on the artists' ability to create rich idiosyncratic visual worlds based on popular culture, mythology and lived experience; a primacy and urgent vitality in the construction and rendering of their work; an emphasis on materiality and process; and the ability to transform humble materials and objects through artistic insight and creativity. The exhibition will include works in a diversity of media from painting, sculpture, photography, books, film and animation.

Film, Video and Animation Program:
Runs concurrently with exhibition, featuring work by Norman Ballou, Laron Bickerstaff, Sue Chan, Thanh Diep, John Ellenden and Matthew Hopkins, Carol Hiltunen, John Hiltunen, Warren Jee, Jonathan Lunt, Cameron Noble, Jodie Noble, Alex Schwitalia, Gordon Shepard, William Tyler and Miles Howard Wilks.

Without Borders has been produced in partnership with Campbelltown Arts Centre

Exhibition Invitation:
Without Borders

Images:
Without Borders Installation images

Public Program:
Beyond the Margins: Contexts and Complexities around the Collection and Display of Outsider Art, Thursday 22 May 2008

^{Image: Judith Scott, Untitled (JS-9) 2005, fibre and found objects, Courtesy Creative Growth Art Centre, Oakland, Cal., USA}