Self-Taught & Visionary Art in New Zealand
This website has been created as a result of Massey University funded research carried out by curator Stuart Shepherd into New Zealand Self-Taught and Visionary art.
The research included a nation-wide survey and the collection of over 3000 slides of 2- and 3-dimensional works from previously unknown artists.
This website aims to create a context for these (and subsequently documented) works, by way of a proposed taxonomy and publication of critical writing on the forms, artists and exhibitions…
About this site
News
Stuart Shepherd Gallery at The Fountain Art Fair
27 Feb 2009 The Stuart Shepherd Gallery will be exhibiting at The Fountain Art Fair Mar 5-8 2009, Pier 66 26th St. Hudson River Park, New York (just where that plane came down).
Out Is In (N F Karlins, Artnet)
23 Jan 2009 Positive reviews of The Stuart Shepherd Gallery showing at the New York International Outsider Art Fair…
Stuart Shepherd Gallery to exhibit in New York
14 Dec 2008 The Stuart Shepherd Gallery will be exhibiting at the 2009 New York International Outsider Art Fair: Jan 9-11 2009. This is the first time that works from New Zealand will be exhibited at the art fair. Works will be available for sale by artists including: Martin Thompson, Jim Dornan, Andrew Blythe, Reece Tong, and Ray Ritchie.
Categories
Definitions and example works for each of the proposed categories.
Artists
Artist profiles and selected works.
Obsessive Decoration
Martin ThompsonDefining ‘Self-Taught & Visionary’
For the initial survey, the following definition was used for ‘self-taught and visionary’:
- work in any medium by people who have no formal or traditional art training
- work that is part of a sustained body of work; where a particular visual language has developed
- work that is a manifestation of personal logic; not following the style or manner of any particular school
Articles
Beyond The Law- Art historian and curator Richard Wolfe charts the relationship between academic and outsider art, taking in Modernist engagement with the primitive and New Zealand’s forays into exhibiting self-taught art.
- 7 Mar 2006
Contact details
For more information on the survey or website, email: