Inside Sydney's outsider new art centre

Outsider Art is enjoying increasing attention in Australia. Recent exhibitions like Without Borders and Australian Outsiders were enthusiastically received, and a show at the Orange Regional Gallery in late 2008 American and European Outsiders spanned the range of Outsider Art's reach. From classics like the spiritualist Madge Gill and self-taught genius Scottie Wilson through more recent additions to the field like Rosemarie Koczy, Malcolm McKesson and Roy Wenzel, it was a taste of the global phenomenon that is Outsider Art building on two decades of visionary programming of Australian outsiders by the gallery's director, Alan Sisley along with other pioneers, Terence Ralphs, Rosemary Jeffers, John Blades, Philip Hammial and Peter Fay. It was also the signal shot for the foundation a few months later of STOARC - Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection - at the University of Sydney.