Raw Arts Festivals
August 1st-7th, 2004 saw the birth of the first ‘Raw Arts Festival’. It included Folk/Intuitive/Marginalised/Self-taught/Visionary art etc. The exhibition featured at least 65 artists’ works from nine different countries. Furthermore, at least 46 artists and 4 representatives were physically present on the private view night. The artists came from France, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, the U.K., New Zealand, Australia, the U.S.A, etc.
The 2005 Raw Arts Festival held between the 16th of May and the 21st of May 2005, exhibited at least 85 artists’ works. The artists live in at least 12 different countries and at least 60 were physically present at the festival for the ‘private view’. This festival displayed many well-known/established Raw (Self-taught / Outsider / Visionary etc) artists’ works.
The 2006 Festival was thus held at the Color Elefante Gallery in Valencia in Spain between 2-28th October 2006.
The 2007 Festival was held at the Carrozzini von Buhler Gallery in New York between January 17th and 31st, 2007.
The 2008 Festival was held at the Infusion Gallery in Los Angeles between March 2nd and the 26th 2008
The Raw Arts Festival website has photographs and a list of exhibitors.
Notes
I now live in Vietnam – so I am not well-placed to organize another one.
Exhibiting artists & organizations
Artists A to C
Dover Abrams (U.S.A),
Philippe Aini (France),
Pal Akero (Norway)
Ambrose Anderson (Haiti)
Anto (France)
Jack Angelo (UK)
Robert Aros (USA)
Aster (Holland)
Jorge Berlato (Spain)
Fleur Barnfather (UK)
Roxy Beckman (USA)
Lorenzo Belenguer (Spain),
Claude Bolduc (Switzerland),
Claude Braier
John Byers (UK)
Maggie Campbell (UK),
Lyle Carbajal (USA),
Dan Casado (Canary Islands)
Sunny Chapman (USA)
Didier Chenu (France)
Cathy Chhetri (USA)
Keith Collins (UK)
Matthew Cook (UK)
Beth Cornell (USA)
Jano Coudrin (France)
Joel Crespin (France)
Artists D to K
Stephen Davids (UK)
Elsa Dax (France)
Davide De Angelis (UK)
Esther De Angelis (UK)
Jeremy Dennis (UK)
Valeria Dimitrova (Israel),
Destin Domond (Haiti)
Brian Dowdall (USA)
Nathan Eley (U.K)
Andrea Farley (UK)
Andru Fijalkowski (UK)
Kevin Fisher (UK)
Rosi Flood (UK)
Yvonne Mab Francis (UK)
Dai-Giang (USA)
Greg Gierlowski (Poland)
Artur Golacki (Poland),
Gillian Gordon (UK),
Stevie Hale-Jones (UK),
Sam Jacobs (UK)
Jenik (U.S.A),
Pauline Jones (U.K)
Stephen Judges (UK)
Mike Kelly (USA)
Evelyn Kharag (UK)
Lisa Kilty (UK)
Akiko Kitami (Japan),
Ann Koi (U.S.A),
Oleg Korolev (Ukraine),
Sue Kreitzman (UK),
Artists L to P
Klaus Lange (U.S.A),
Damian Le Bas (UK)
Delaine Le Bas (UK)
Andrew Lewandowski (U.S.A),
Loren (France)
David Magitis (UK)
Jay Marvin (U.S.A),
Andrew Masters (UK)
Raymond Masters (UK)
Ewan McDougall (NZ),
Judith McNicol (UK)
Franco Meloni (Italy),
Piers Midwinter (U.K),
Alex Milazzo (UK)
Kelly Moore (U.S.A),
Joe Moorman (U.S.A),
Karl Mullen (U.S.A),
Cheryl Muniandy (UK)
Kitti Narod (Thailand)
Remy Noe (UK)
Nemo (U.S.A),
Tony O’Brien (U.K),
Liz Parkinson (Australia),
Duncan Pearson (UK)
Lee Pearson (UK)
Vivian Pedley (UK)
Rick Petrea (USA)
Joel Pinkerton (U.S.A),
Adam Pinson (UK)
Paula Pipa
Artists R to Z
Ben Reche (UK)
Clifton Reddie (U.K),
Jonathan Ridley (UK)
Ody Saban (France),
Nina Sagen Sandsbakk (Norway)
Renate Seffer (Grand Cayman),
Robert Seven (USA),
John Sheehy (UK)
LauraLee Sikorski (USA)
Antony Simonen (UK)
Maureen Simpson (South Africa),
Julia Sisi (Canary Islands),
Josh Slavin (U.S.A),
Jason Soles (U.S.A),
Paula Sousa (U.K),
Brian Steimel (U.S.A),
Jean Stockdale (UK)
Mimi Sturman (USA)
Lynne Sweeney (UK)
Zoya Taylor (Norway)
Jessica Torrant (USA)
Elizabeth Turnbull (Australia),
Karin Van Der Plas (U.K),
Lori Vynalek (U.S.A),
Dave Whitfield (UK)
Tom Willer (U.K),
Stephen Wright (UK)
Ben Young (U.K),
Mary Zeman. (U.S.A),
Organizations
Bergen Kommune, (Norway)
Catalyst Studios (U.S.A),
Folkwares, inc. (U.S.A)
FOSAJ (Haiti),
Hoffmann for Autism (U.K),
Nearly Orange, UK
St. John-at-Hackney Community Space Centre (U.K),
Reston Arts (USA),
Thai Fine Art, (Thailand)
Many of the Stuckists took part too