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…
Categories
Definitions and example works for each of the proposed categories.
Artists
Artist profiles and selected works.
Exoticism
Sannig ReignerDefining ‘Self-Taught & Visionary’
For the initial survey Self-Taught and Visionary work was defined as:
- 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
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