Slim Barrie

  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Slim was both a feature artist and opening performer for the National Gallery of Australia exhibition Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection (in Canberra until 18 January 2004 and then travelling).
Tags: outsider art
exhibited at
Slim Barrie: Every Work a Masterpiece
Date
4 December 2003 - 13 December 2003
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Through these works Slim tells the story of his creativity and transforms the forms and structures of objects and paintings into his own autobiography. Of his own thoughts on Barrie, Fay says 'What I saw in Slim was a man whose life contains one thing and that’s art. There’s nothing else’.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
outsider art, The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/248-every-work-a-masterpiece-4-to-13-december-2003