emails

For this essay I plan to write to people, namely curators and dealers, in regards to their opinions on the potential pitfalls of exhibiting outsider art. I emailed Jarvis Cocker asking for a brief chat, though haven't heard back yet! I also have the idea to contact the people at the Gallery of Everything and maybe the Wellcome Collection, especially after visiting these exhibitions as I can draw up specific points from my visits.

I don't want to come across as aggressively saying that Outsider Art is handled incorrectly- far from it, as I don't wholly believe that! And it would be plain rude... but things to bring up would be along the lines of

• what are your intentions of exhibiting outsider art?
• there is an idea that discussion of artist identity overwhelms the conversations around outsider art- what are your feelings on this? did you specifically curate the exhibition with this in mind?
• i.e. with Gallery of Everything- I noticed that description of the artists were minimal, were you wanting to let the art speak for itself?