Associated organisations & other links
Associated arts organisations
- ActionSpace
- Action Space is an independent charity supporting beginning, emerging and established artists with learning disabilities by providing studio space, art materials and exhibition opportunities.
- Artscope
based in Haringay, Artscope provides visual arts opportunities for artmakers with disabilities through a dynamic on-going programme of activities.
- Ashley Road Centre MIND and Outcome
is a drop-in centre open to anybody who feels lonely, isolated or distressed with an emphasis on support for people with mental health problems and runs an art /creative group on Wednesday. Outcome runs on Tuesdays for lesbian, gay and bisexuals.
- Capital A
- is a programme of art workshops in museums and galleries for people affected by homelessness or exclusion.
- Claremont Project
- provides a multidisciplinary spectrum of services for people over 55 to create opportunites of having happier and healthtier lives
- Core Arts
is a registered charity that exists to promote freely and without prejudice, the artistic and creative abilities of people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Creativity Centre
is part of the Mental Health Resource Centre in Finsbury Park
- Crisis Skylight
is a centre where homeless people take part in free practical and creative workshops ranging from bicycle repair to performing arts.
- The Epic Trust
is a registered charity, provides care and support in a range of settings, including residential care, sheltered housing and shared accommodation and people’s own homes.
- Link Arts
at Barnet College offer supportive and progression based learning for people recovering from mental health problems or for people who have lost confidence or who are suffering from stress.
- Single Homeless Project (SHP)
is a charity working with men and women who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless.
- Siren Arts and Advocacy
runs creative projects for people with learning difficulties.
- St Mungo’s
is a homeless charity which provides residential care and at most centres, arts activities.
- Studio Upstairs
provides a supportive environment, away from a clinical context, to make and develop art and drama, and to exhibit and perform in the public arena.
- Weekend Academy
based at Byam Shaw School of arts, provides art courses/activities for young people and disabled adults.
Other links
- Inbetween Out
is partnership between Germany, Denmark and England. The project is funded by the EU Commission's Grundtvig Life Long Learning Fund
- European Outsider Art Association
is a project that is developed in cooperation between 4 cultural organisations devoted to the promotion and communication of the domain of outsider art in Europe.
- Artesian Arts
is a Scottish recognised charity run by and for visionary, intuitive, grassroots and 'outsider' artists. It has established a regular magazine, an active website and on-line gallery, an outreach programme, and a small publishing press for artists' books.
- Artsake Global Gallery
offers affordable Internet marketing and publicity to contemporary artists, art organisations and suppliers, directed towards potential buyers and commissioners of work.
- Community Focus
is a specialist arts organisation with a strong tradition of innovation, continually evolving and searching for better ways to provide an ideal arts service for our users.
- 5thColumn
are a T-shirt printers and textile screen printing company based in Kentish Town, North West London and The Other Side Gallery would like to thank all at 5th Column for all their support, input and generous contribution of all the resources and materials for the T-shirt printing workshop they ran during the Print Positive workshops.
- The Georgie Project
is an ongoing creative venture set up by a London artist whose sister died in 2004 due to mental illness. It aims to make money for The Other Side Gallery and awareness of the positive impact that the arts can have on people with mental and physical disabilities.
- Full Circle Arts
is a Disability Arts Development Agency and provide a full information and advocacy service for groups or organisations who want to arrange their own local Disability Arts projects.
- GAIA Museum
is an organisation in Denmark working with learning disabled and organises Outsider art exhibtions.
- Life and Living
is the radio programme by Mick Hobbs on Resonance Radio (104.4FM 6.30pm Tuesdays and 11.30pm Fridays), which The Other Side Gallery has collaborated with.
- Mad for Arts
is a web and TV project which aims to encourage people with mental health issues to talk about art that inspires them and to create online studio space to share views on sculpture, painting, music, architecture, literature and music.
- Raw Art
is a web-site dedicated to helping anyone interested or involved with Art Brut, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Symbolism, Visionary Art and Sophisticated Art etc.
- Raw Vision
is a full colour, quarterly magazine founded in 1989. It features Outsider Art and it reflects the truly international phenomenon of Outsider Art as its impact becomes ever greater.
- Sanford L Smith
is New York's Annual Outsider Art Fair.
- Abnormal
an exhibition by Ju Gosling.
- Outside in
brings work by marginalised and outsider artists to a wider public. Based at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.
- Creative Capital
is a network of organisations providing advice and support across a diversity of art forms.
- Creative Future
is a unique not for profit organisation, bridging the gap between the community arts and the professional arts sectors in the South East, providing talented marginalised artists and writers opportunities to earn income from their creative work.
- Bethlem Gallery
and the creative studios at Bethlem encourage and support patients and artists who have experienced mental distress.
- Breakthrough Art
is a community interest company that promotes positive mental health through the creative arts. The pictures on this website and the accompanying Reflections Magazine showcase the creative talents and art of people who have suffered mental distress.
