The Museum of Everything #3 -fairground and outsider art

I went to the Museum of Everything #3 in Chalk Farm this week. It is an exhibition, mostly, of the artist Peter Blake’s collection of fairground, circus and outsider art.
       
The exhibition carries the idea of magic and  fairytale transformation. The dolls, puppets, costumes and fairground paraphernalia felt uncomfortable symbols of magic, made more so by their being out of their original time and place. I had a sense of the artist-craftsmen striving to create magic  and the cumulative effect was evidence of  the singularity and passion that fairground, folk and outsider art possesses.
   
Above are some examples of my interaction with fairground art - still a strong influence on what I do.