Callan Park Gallery is currently showing a selection of the Pearls of Arts Project Australia, which is a collection of works by Arts Project Australia (APA) artists that the collector, Stuart Purves, is giving to STOARC. There are about 200 works in the collection, created by people with an intellectual disability who have been associated with APA. Stuart started collecting the works in 1998, recognising in them something very special.
I loved the text-oriented works in the show, and here are two examples by Scott Ferguson, who was born in 1963 and has been attending the APA studio in Melbourne since 1995. There’s a whimsical freedom about these pieces, a lack of self-consciousness that makes them, for me, very distinct from graffiti, with it’s usual insistence on identity.
Scott Ferguson
Untitled (white text on black)
14.5 x 24.5 cm
Scott Ferguson
Untitled (figures and text)
16 x 50.5 cm
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I like all things to do with commonssense of people that is constant and somehow right. The thoughts are gatthered at the bottom and gravity is after all downward, but the words and people float up now and again.
very neat, Roseanne