Bücher veröffentlicht von Insider Art

Paintings by outsider artist Ronald Henriques. This is first and foremost a book of extraordinary paintings and details from them. Paintings and painter challenge preconceptions about 'outsider art', 'art therapy', 'schizophrenia', solipsism and audience. The art pays as much attention to such terms as a migratory fish does to terratorial waters. The Untamed Sea of the title is perhaps the ocean of yearning and resilience of creativity and fragmentation, and ultimately the unboundaried reach of human hope and imagination. As Dubuffet commented, 'Art is at its best when it forgets its own name, it loves to travel incognito...'

'The river exe-pedition' a combined arts project with mixed-heritage families in Devon is a handbook, a story and education about belonging, and the arts as educators of the heart. It is thought-provoking being both pragmatic and about much more than it seems on first glance. It is action-provoking showing how good informed arts practice can help people from mixed race families live better together in a complex world. The book combines thorough thinking and sensitive practice with straight-forward and clearly presented evaluation. In this creative book, Hurley explores the ways in which place and space shape our sense of self and belonging through a focus on the overlooked experience of racial mixing and mixedness in rural Britain. Drawing on a fascinating and eclectic combined arts project undertaken with mixed racial families in Devon, Blazing Tales takes a fresh and challenging look at what it means to be - and be seen to be - part of a mixed race family beyond the British city.