The Vectis Decorative & Fine Arts Society returns to Quay Arts tonight (Thursday) evening for the third lecture of the year.
Barry Venning will be talking about ‘Outsider Art’.
Outsider art is the name given to work produced by artists from all over the world who are usually untrained and outside the mainstream of twentieth and twenty-first century art.
Their output ranges from tiny drawings a few centimetres wide to the world’s tallest wooden house. The artists include at least two postmen, a coal miner, psychics, unskilled labourers, several prisoners, psychiatric patients, a Russian ex-gangster and an Indian roads inspector.
The one thing they have in common is a compulsion to make astounding art. Few of them are well known – but they all deserve to be.
Where and when
Doors open at 7.15pm. Tea, coffee and bar are available before the lectures which begin at 8.00pm.
We ask you to be seated by 7.55pm. They finish at approximately 9.15-9-30pm Guests are welcome at a cost of £7 and £2 for students.
Vectis DFAS
Vectis DFAS is one of over 300 member societies of NADFAS, the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, a leading Arts Charity. Annual membership is £42 per person or £80 for couples.
Benefits of joining include lectures, a quarterly magazine, special offers and concessions on national art events.
Image: Tony Rotondas under CC BY 2.0
