Supported Studio Network (Australia) + labels

This is a little way out of Outsider Art but I read the essay SUPPORTED STUDIOS AND THE FALSE ECONOMY OF OUTSIDER ART: THE SCAFFOLDED ARTIST: PROFESSIONALISATION IN THE SUPPORTED STUDIO on the Supported Studio Network website. Supported artists are something to look at in conjunction to outsider artists, and it's making me think about all these different terms that are inter-used and argued about. I'm reading a lot about labels / why labelling is bad so that could be a point for the dissertation.  This is also bringing ties towards Art House Meath.

Labels that are frequently coming up:

• Outsider artists
• Supported artists
• Art Brut
• Folk Art
• ""Psychotic Art"" (this seems instinctually like a bad term to use but I'll see what people have to say about it. At the very least it just seems horribly dated)

There are also a lot of points about the health of outsider artists. Not all outsider artists are disabled, but some of the time it is their disabilities that marginalise them / make the *art world* inaccessible. Some do not engage in traditional art roles for other reasons (class/ education etc) and others may just choose not to. Outsider Art is a much more charged label than any other movement or grouping and it must be handled in a careful way - and this is probably one of the reasons people do not enjoy that label so much. 

The quote

“such artists [outsider or supported] are often seen as practicing within a psychological or health framework — art therapy — in which art making is a method rather than a cultural form”

Stood out to me a lot