Kettle's Yard OPEN 2008
22 November 2008 - 11 January 2009
Our biennial OPEN exhibition returns to showcase the work of 17 talented artists/collaborations from the Eastern region. Since 1995, the Kettle's Yard OPEN has highlighted the range and vitality of art made in East Anglia. The exhibition will look at the work of each artist in depth, offering many of those selected their first substantial presentation in a public gallery. Many works will be for sale.
Marking a departure this year, our selectors are both curators rather than artists. Simon Wallis is an old friend of Kettle's Yard. Recently appointed as the first Director of The Hepworth Wakefield, he was previously director of the Chisenhale Gallery, London. He started his career as Exhibitions Organiser at Kettle's Yard. Gill Hedley is an independent curator, trustee of Spike Island in Bristol and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Until 2006, she was the Director of the Contemporary Art Society.
ARTISTS
Daniel Bell
Still from Shelf, 2008
digital video
Susan Bonvin & Andrew Eden
Drawing (E+C) Version 1, 2008
pencil on paper with emery inset
Bonvin & Eden online
Alexandra Drysdale
Evolving, 2008
crayon on paper
Alexandra Drysdale online
Peter Gaskin
ESBB, 2008
acrylic on canvas
Bruce Gernand
Bruce Dreams the Tortoise and Hare (Festina Lente III), 2008
bronze
Bruce Gernand online
Rosie Greenhalgh
the authorities finally admit..., 2008
acrylic on canvas
Rosie Greenhalgh online
Oliver Hein
Dawn, 2006
Polythene, air
Neil Henderson & Polly Read
Stills from Circles, 2008
16mm film
Caroline Lain
Untitled, 2008
ink on paper
Anne-Mie Melis
The Sound of Growing, 2008
Tip-ex and pencil on paper
Nicola Naismith
Bulk, 2007
digital photograph
Nicola Naismith online
Gideon Pain
Inside Out, 2008
gouache & acrylic on paper
Gideon Pain online
Anna Salamon
Untitled, 2008
oil on canvas
Oliver Soskice
November Light, 2008
oil on canvas
Telfer Stokes
Segued, 2008
metal
Townley & Bradby
Dust, 2006
photographic documentation
Townley & Bradby online
Andrew Vass
Fusing 08, 2007
oil on canvas