Sat 17 Dec 2011 - Sun 12 Feb 2012

The East Coast Open Exhibition has become one of the most popular Opens in the region attracting both amateur and professional artists alike. Works are selected by a panel of judges, the best of which will be featured in the exhibition alongside some of the Galleries classic collections.

This year the exhibition will be curated along four themes, Pleasure, Poetry, People and Place, however art works will be selected on merit by the selection panel which includes the curators: Andy Dalton, from the Ryedale Folk Museum; Stuart Cameron, from Crescent Arts; Sally Taylor, Artist and Jan Bee Brown, Freelance Curator working with Scarborough Museums Trust.

Each curator has chosen an art work from the Gallery collections to represent one of the four themes:

‘Pleasure’ - Andy Dalton has chosen Henrietta Rae’s ‘Roses of Youth’ (1859-1928)  

‘Poetry’ - Stuart Cameron has chosen ‘Landscape with Juniper Tree’ by Anthony Gross (1905-1984)

‘People’ - Sally Taylor has chosen two line drawings by Henri Gauder-Brzesca (1891-1915)

‘Place’ - Jan Bee Brown has chosen ‘Ygaan and Foel Goch’ by Sir John Kyffin Williams (1918-2006).

The art work for the open exhibition has now been selected and hung in the gallery spaces upstairs. We were overwhelmed by the amount and high standard of the 300 + works that were submitted, 145 pieces were chosen to exhibit by our four curators. The galleries look fantastic with a mixture of paintings, sculpture and ceramic on display. Well done to all those who were selected and a big thank you to everyone for submitting their work to us. The exhibition is on until 12th Feb 2012 and is well worth a look!