Alan Constable (b. 1956)
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Alan Constable's singular sculptures of cameras, telescopes, projectors, and binoculars are imbued with a heightened tactility and inner life. Legally blind and deaf, Constable is renowned for his ceramic cameras that reflect his life-long fascination with old cameras, when he began constructing replicas of cameras from cereal cartons and glue at the age of eight. At the studio Constable holds research images or source objects millimetres from his face, committing the form to memory by tracing the surface with his fingertips. Every protrusion, button, and lens of a specific camera model is faithfully captured in intricate detail, down to tiny scrawled lines and letters. Form and perspectives shift and Constable’s re-interpretations become at times anthropomorphic vessels and totems.

Curator Matthew Higgs stated that "Constable, who is legally blind, makes incredible ceramic sculptures of cameras, which should, in my opinion, be in every major museum collection."

Alan Constable Catalogue

Rose deSmith Greeman (1898-1983)
Born in Boston, MA

Seemingly out of nowhere, Rose Greenman began drawing obsessively in her 70s over seven years while struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. Spending most hours alone, she used pencils, pens, crayons and markers to interpret her world virtuosically – creating radiant, demur, constrained diminutive drawings of her home, garden, and family as well as transformative works from her imagination out of saved scraps of paper from family members.

Rose deSmith Greenman Catalogue

Selby Warren (1887-1979)
Born in Lambing Flat (Young), New South Wales, Australia

"Selby Warren, too, had a whole other life - as a bluff, no-nonsense bushman - but he was no amateur artist. The need to represent his world in drawing and paint occupied the centre of his worldview, and he clung to this tenaciously, as often as not in the face of joshing and ridicule from his mates and other locals who might have discovered he made pictures."

-Colin Rhodes, ‘Trunkey Creek Insider: Outsider Art’ from Selby Warren: Trunkey’s Tribe of One, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Australia, 2014.