{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  Public interest in outsider art has been somewhat slower to develop in Britain, despite the recognition long given to indigenous \u0026lsquo;naive\u0026rsquo; practitioners like Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), painter of  ships and seacoasts, and Madge Gill (1884-1961), an ardent spiritualist and visionary who over 40 years produced thousands of obsessive ink drawings, many of them of a young girl thought to be her  dead daughter. Gill claimed to have been inspired by a spirit-guide named \u0026lsquo;Myrninerest\u0026rsquo;. Outsider art has gained more visibility lately, however, thanks in part to the success of \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003ERaw Vision\u003C\/em\u003E, named World\u0026rsquo;s Best Art Magazine by Unesco in 1998. James Brett\u0026rsquo;s Museum of Everything, located in Primrose Hill, attracted huge crowds to its three critically  acclaimed exhibitions, the last of which featured the splendidly funky outsider art collections of the pop artist Peter Blake.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}