Outsider Art Podcast

EP019 - Susan Te Kahurangi King - Part 2

In this episode the OAP takes a shallow dive into a deep pond - Susan Te Kahurangi King's archive - and comes up with treasure. Cover Image - Susan Te Kahurangi King, Un

EP018 - Susan Te Kahurangi King - Part 1

“Looking at her works demands shifting levels of attention, as we scan them to register the pattern, then again to excavate embedded images." Robert Leonard on Susan Te

EP017 - Henry Darger - Part 3

“I actually just find the paintings extraordinarily beautiful - I think they can live for me that simply.” Brooke Davis Anderson on Henry Darger Cover image - Henry Da

EP016 - Henry Darger - Part 2

"Rather than condescendingly and misguidedly treating Darger only as a case study, we can look into his work for what it may tell us about both the powerful allure of mas

EP015 - Henry Darger - Part 1

In his external life Darger was a pitiable figure, reclusive, impoverished, orphaned at 16, often regarded as crazy, suffering almost constant pain in his later years and

EP014 - Carlo Zinelli

“As though this were the moment he had always been waiting for, Carlo immediately set out on his extraordinary journey, filling large sheets of paper one after the other,

EP013 - Minnie Evans

" I paint a memorandum of my dream" - Minnie Evans Cover image - Minnie Evans. My very first. 1935 Reading List Minnie Evans:Artist. Charles Muir Lovell (editor) an

EP012 - Nek Chand - Part 2

"Curiously, the Garden seems simultaneously made and not made for the visitor, and I felt as though I had happened across a great secret—despite the fact that on that day

EP011 - Nek Chand - Part 1

“(Nek) Chand’s private vision engaged India’s collective spirit. Here, what has been called “outsider” art proves more culturally affirmative than the aesthetic of high m

EP010 - Madge Gill

There is something unique and fascinating about the work of the self-taught visionary Madge Gill - the nameless women that feature in almost all of her drawn and painted

EP009 - Bill Traylor

Born into slavery in the American South in 1853, emancipated in 1865 and living into his 90's Bill Traylor's life spanned a tumultuous time in US history. He had lived fo

EP008 - Judith Scott

Judith Scott was born on May 1st 1943 and passed away, in the arms of her twin sister Joyce, in March 2005 aged 62 years old. Not unlike Adolf Wolfli and Martin Ramirez,

EP007 - Martín Ramírez - Part 3

The artwork of Martín Ramírez is singularly distinctive. Once seen, never forgotten and always recognisable, his drawings play many of the same notes time and again, rear

EP006 - Martín Ramírez - Part 2

Last time on the Outsider Art Podcast we left Martín Ramírez in 1948, having met Tarmo Pasto, the main actor in his discovery narrative. Pasto would go on to play one of

EP005 - Martín Ramírez - Part 1

First things first – let’s get some of the myths about Martín Ramírez straight – he wasn’t mute, at the time of his committal he was very likely not severely mentally ill

004 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 3

“The victor (Wolfli), at one with the sacrifice, here in full grandeur; never has the front of the coin contrasted so strongly with the reverse: on the one side, ithyphal

003 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 2

In 1916 as part of the second of his narrative works, the Geographic and Algebraic Books, Wolfli assigned himself a new name (which required some explanation), “St. Adol

002 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 1

When Adolf Wolfli passed away on November 6th, 1930 he was working on what would become his final uncompleted work - Funeral March. He left behind 45 large self-bound boo

001 - Outsider Art Podcast - The Journey Begins

An introduction to the Outsider Art Podcast in which I introduce myself, tell you what the podcast series is going to be about and get tangled up in the existential quagm