The Guardian online has posted images from an art exhibition put on by the Other Side Gallery, which will begin on 6th May 2008 and last until 12th June 2008. The exhibition will be featured at the Manor Gardens Café in London. The Other Side Gallery is a North London registered charity that enables the socially excluded to create art. These artists include those with mental health issues and disabilities, as well as those with drug and alcohol problems, the homeless, refugees and offenders. They create art in various forms, which is then exhibited in donated venues and on the Other Side Gallery’s website. While a London-based charity, the Other Side Gallery has expanded across Europe and also to the United States. Unfortunately, the Other Side Gallery has commented that the UK has a shortage of dedicated art galleries willing to exhibit the art. CAARE applauds the efforts of the Other Side Gallery to make art available to everyone and for realizing the benefit art has as a vital expressive outlet. CAARE agrees with a quote from John Maizels, editor of Raw Vision magazine, who petitions: “Let us hope things will change in the future and that Outsider Art in Britain will genuinely be granted Equal Rights to Creativity”. More information and the featured art can be found at http://www.theothersidegallery.org/.
