Running in parallel (outside) with this years Open House festival (13th - 21st Sept), outsider artist Xavier White is opening his home, gallery & garden for a limited number of personal tours. As a long term Greenwich resident, outsider artist & head injury survivor Xavier White has continued to regularly open his family home for art related events since completing his dispotic degree. His home remains a reminder of the bohemian old school style and as such a rare treasure,it is a Sir John Vanbrugh gothic housefilled with layers of traditional, modern & conceptual art.
Maximum of 6 per tour, tickets are free but limited so book now:Eventbrite link
Xavier will talk about his family’s long history of living in Blackheath / SouthEastLondon.He explores how the area has changed, and how his art practice has also morphed and merged with the environment. Visitors will see his studio and have the opportunity to buy artworks for a suggested donation for arts charity's, to be shared between the Bethlem Gallery and Outside In.
South London has changed greatly this century and the affordable, ad hoc improvised getting by creativity in the postwar period is dying out, literally, as time progresses and modernity arrives for better or worst, from Bohemian / affordable / students / making-do, to gentrified professional flats housing stock of today.
Xavier White is an outsider artist who has lived in a large Blackheath town house, part of Sir John Vanbrugh’s ‘village’ most of his life, recovering and living with consequence from a serious brain injury sustained in 1985.
His rehabilitation has been moulded by what he has found / upcycled with his creativity to maintain, improve & enhance the family home as well as his personal artworks which have aided his recovery & life skills.
As an outsider artist Xavier has been supported by the Outside In charity that gets artists talents and artworks involved in the mainstream arts world. Outside In's current National Exhibition Shelter is on show at Walsall Gallery, Walsall.
Xavier's As You Find Me short film is showing as part of the Shelter National Exhibition.
