By Harrie Dearing. First published on harriedearingart.com.
SLART and I are thrilled to launch The Brut List, Studio BRUT’s new directory celebrating outsider artists working across Swindon and Wiltshire.
Outsider art (or art brut, “raw art”) is work made outside the mainstream art world: self-taught, unfiltered, and driven by instinct rather than institution. It’s about time our region had a home for it.
Our first five artists make the case for why this list needed to exist. A Swindon sculptor carving reclaimed timber. An artist working in sumi ink and origami. Painters working through colour, chaos, and memory. BOLD RAW UNTRAINED TALENT !
So, without further ado, here are the first five artists to join.
David Boase
A Swindon-based sculptor who carves reclaimed hard and softwood into striking artwork inspired by nature, geometry, and Op-art. David uses power tools to transform flat panels into pieces rich with depth and texture, working with a rare, entirely self-developed technique that turns raw timber into something that seems to move.
Find out more about David Boase
Kanaloverose
Kanaloverose creates contemporary artwork rooted in Japanese culture and tradition. Combining sumi ink, origami, and watercolours, each piece carries a distinctly Japanese aesthetic, a quiet, considered way of sharing the beauty of Japanese culture with a wider audience.
Find out more about Kanaloverose
Sarah Christie
A self-taught artist who turns the chaos of the world into colour, texture, and unapologetic honesty. Sarah’s work tackles mental health, feminism, and the messy business of being human, unfiltered, provocative, and sometimes darkly funny. Not art that asks permission.
Find out more about Sarah Christie
Art For Meat 50
An untrained artist working in colour and mixed media, creating purely for themselves. Unconcerned with sales or approval, this is work driven by head and heart rather than the market.
Find out more about Art For Meat 50
Cristina Jordan
Cristina explores identity as shaped by memory, emotional response, and lived struggle. Her work focuses on spaces of disconnection, what is excluded, erased, or unseen , and how those absences quietly define who we are.
Find out more about Cristina Jordan
Five artists, five completely different practices , and this is just the start. If this is the range on show already, it says a lot about how much talent is quietly working away across Swindon and Wiltshire, waiting to be found.
Join The Brut List
The Brut List is just getting started, and we want it to grow into the go-to directory for outsider artists in Swindon and Wiltshire. If you’re a self-taught, untrained, or unconventional artist working in the region or you know someone who is , we’d love to hear from you.
No formal training required. No gallery CV needed. Just honest, self-driven work.
Get in touch to find out how to join the directory and have your work featured alongside artists like these.