Monika Kinley, who has died aged 88, made a significant contribution to the British art world, as a dealer, collector and curator, championing in particular the cause of outsider artists the self-taught and self-motivated who were not part of the mainstream.
It was in 1977, when Monika met Victor Musgrave, a dealer and curator who became her life partner, that the cause of outsider art became her main focus. Together they put on exhibitions, raised funds and began a collection. In 1979 Musgrave curated, with Roger Cardinal, an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery that was the most serious and ambitious survey of outsider art seen in Britain to that date. After Musgrave's death in 1984, Monika devoted her considerable energy to promoting, enlarging and finding a home for their collection.
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