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Since starting out, the Jennifer Lauren Gallery, and the artists it supports, has gained traction both in the UK and overseas. You can filter here to find press broken down into: online press, printed press and podcasts. Do get in touch should you want to feature the Gallery, its remit and/or ethics, any of its artists, or any of Jennifer's freelance work, within any features, broadcasted shows or panel discussions. Alongside Gallery owner Jennifer, many artists and/or those who support them, would be able to provide interviews and/or share examples of their work and how they create. Do sign up to the newsletter too, where press is often shared more widely.
‘Female cult leaders, clay creatures and pink rooms: highlights from this year’s Outsider Art Fair in New York’ in The Art Newspaper, in March 2023
Arts and the Antiques shares more on the 31st Outsider Art Fair in New York, featuring Sawada, Watanabe and Macwilliam
Dawn Chan urges you to go and see Shinichi Sawada’s solo exhibition at James Cohan Gallery in New York in March 2023.
Artist Shinichi Sawada features on BBC Radio 3 on their ‘Art from the Outside’ essay series in early 2023.
Article about Margate based artist Valerie Potter features in Raw Vision Magazine #113.
Lisa Slominski reviews To all the Kings who have no Crowns in Raw Vision issue #110, stating “This multi-media exhibition -including the petite sculptures by Pradeep Kumar and the nearly 300 cm pastel drawing by Eric Derochette - considers a conceptual connection through exploring process and production.”
Vivienne Roberts reviewed Prismatic Minds in issue #109 of Raw Vision magazine, stating “This groundbreaking event immediately caused a sensation on the street when artist Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso's lifesize cut-out figure of a bodybuilder was placed in the gallery window.”
Jennifer Gilbert and Robert Diament feature on Margate Radio talking about ‘To all the Kings who have no Crowns’ including chatting about the artists and the importance of this show here and now.
ART UK features Jennifer Lauren Gallery talking about their work with self-taught and disabled artists, alongside highlighting the incredible work in a show she curated at Carl Freedman Gallery
Cara Macwilliam is interviewed by the College of Psychic studies in London in 2022.
Jesse James Nagel and Margaret Mousseau feature in this article from the 2022 New York Outsider Art Fair.
Ocula Magazine features Margate exhibition ‘To all the Kings who have no Crowns’
Article about Portuguese artist Daniel Gonçalves features in Raw Vision Magazine #101.
New digital platform Art et al. features with an interview in The Double Negative
With Project Art Works nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021, and growing institutional interest, the art world is waking up to "outsiders" but advocates fear their exploitation. Tess Thackara writes for The Art Newspaper.
During Prismatic Minds in August 2021, I was interviewed by Limna - the AI-powered Art Advisor in your Pocket.
London Art Critic Tabish Khan listed Prismatic Minds within his top 6 exhibitions to see in London in late August 2021
Interview featuring Yoshihiro Watanabe and his mother in ‘Diversity in the Arts Today’ in Japan from 2019
Paul Laster listed Shinichi Sawada as one of fifteen works he wanted from the Takashi Murakami curated ‘Super Rough’ show in New York, June 2021.
Artnet listed Shinichi Sawada as one of five outstanding artists in the ‘Super Rough’ exhibition in New York in June 2021.
Jerry Saltz visited the Shinichi Sawada solo exhibition at Venus over Manhattan to record this short video for New York Magazine, March 2021.
In The Art Newspaper March 2021, Tess Thackra said of Sawada’s work, “Shinichi Sawada’s irresistible spiky ceramic creatures look like they might have emerged from the archeological dig of an ancient civilisation.”
Professor Colin Rhodes reviewed Monochromatic Minds in issue #105 of Raw Vision Magazine in Spring 2020 saying, “a sophisticated system of compelling art.”
Artist Judith McNicol reviewed Valerie’s work in issue #105 of Raw Vision Magazine, in Spring 2020 saying,“To me, Potter’s remarkable embroideries are brave, dramatic and compelling, revealing both harshness in her imagery and tenderness in her craft.
In January 2021 Jennifer was interviewed on Instagram Live by The Big Draw director Kate Mason about her background, why she set up the Jennifer Lauren Gallery and her work championing artists who are often overlooked.
Artist Judith McNicol reviewed Kate Bradbury’s show in issue #98 of Raw Vision Magazine in Summer 2018 saying, “Kate Bradbury is hugely inventive; her unique creations are instilled with her own potent myths that remind us that we all carry mystical inner worlds.”
On 10 March 2021, Jillian Steinhauer wrote in the New York Times listing the Shinichi Sawada solo show at Venus over Manhattan as one of three shows to check out… “They evoke other things while being unlike anything else.”
Blinko and Neate: Unlocking Worlds was reviewed by academic and writer Tony Thorne in issue #96 of Raw Vision Magazine in Winter 2017
On 25 February 2021 Courtney Coffman wrote in New York Times T Magazine about the Shinichi Sawada exhibition at Venus over Manhattan being one of five things they were recommending, “a wildly imaginative bestiary that transports its viewer to a different realm.”
In early 2024 Nishinippon Shimbun wrote an article for The Japan Times about Japanese artist Yoshihiro Watanabe, his work, and how the work of disabled artists is viewed in Japan.