Outsider art

Henry Darger

Alexandre P Lobanov

Went to an amazing exhibition of outsider art at The Museum Of Everything. You wander around what feels like an abandoned house, peering into these strange spaces to see pockets of peculiar and totally brilliant art. Most of it done by people who never really cared if we saw it or not.

Two of my favourites were Alexandre P Lobanov - a deaf mute whose photographs and drawings were all self-portraits of him being a hero marksman, and Henry Darger - a hermit who created disturbing, weird worlds with his fairytale-like illustrations. I'm definitely going to investigate them some more.