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Home Sweet Home: Works From The Peter Fay Collection.
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2003. ¶ The catalogue for this remarkable exhibition reveals the passions of a collector who has supported well known and emerging artists as well as numerous talented so-called "outsider" artists (working outside the mainstream). Perhaps most of all Fay seeks to overcome distinctions between 'insider' and 'outsider' and convey ways of entering into the passions of what it is to be human; our shared joys and struggles seen through the artists' diverse points of view. Co-curated by Deborah Hart, Senior Curator of Australian Painting and Sculpture at the NGA, and Glenn Barkley, Curator, University of Wollongong, the exhibition challenges conventions and opens up fresh ways of engaging with the vitality of the processes of art-making and collecting. It reminds us that you don't need to be hugely wealthy to be a collector but rather than you can develop an interesting collection by taking risks and an imaginative approach. Roger Cardinal's words in a recent publication sum up aspects of the Peter Fay collection: 'The art offers us the prospect of an alternative and potentially revolutionary way of seeing É It is work that may provoke a steady rapturous ache in the beholder'. There were some 240 works in the show, in a wide range of media - painting, drawing, photography, video, domestic-scale sculpture and objects including dolls and shell bridges. The artists include, among many others: Laurence Aberhart, Slim Barrie, Leo Cussen, Mikala Dwyer, Rosalie Gascoigne, Shaun Gladwell, Robert MacPherson, John Northe, Neil Roberts, Lola Ryan, Gina Sinozich, Val Sutherland, Ricky Swallow, Ronnie van Hout and Ken Whisson. Softcover/Paperback. ISBN: 064254137X. Quarto. 56pp. Fine in heavy illustrated wrappers.
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