Great news! There’s a new gallery, the Callan Park Gallery, at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) – the first Sydney gallery (as far as I know) specialising in outsider and self-taught art. It’s the showcase for SCA’s new Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection (STOARC), led by Colin Rhodes, Dean of SCA and author of several books on outsider art (including Spontaneous Alternatives, a book I love and return to often).
The first show is the rich work of Jose dos Santos (on which I’ll post very soon). Last Saturday was the very first at this new gallery (the dos Santos show opened the previous Thursday), and here’s the entrance to the Gallery, on that day.
This is of course a significant location for outsider art – the Callan Park Mental Hospital was here from 1885 until 1996, when SCA took over the Kirkbride complex (of which this new gallery is a part). The buildings, of locally-quarried sandstone with slate tiled roofs, have been beautifully restored, and Callan Park promises to be an important place for outsiders.
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i would like to have exhibition in your gallery,
my work are about human figure in our time
Thanks
Nasser
Sorry Nasser, I don’t run the Callan Park Gallery, I just visit it and enjoy the exhibitions. It’s run by the University of Sydney (Sydney College of the Arts) so you could contact them about exhibiting.