The 14th annual East Riding Open Art exhibition opens to the public on Friday,11th December 2009.
Entries have been submitted from artists and craftsmen – amateur and professional – living throughout the East Riding and Kingston-upon-Hull. Two hundred and forty artists have entered this year and 136 works have been selected for display.
Nick Maston of Beverley told HU17.net “Digital art has become more acceptable as we are exposed to it more and more either through film or the media. For my entry I wanted to capture Beverley in a way that people aren’t used to seeing. Everyone recognises the Minster so I wanted to show it in a very different landscape. 3000AD is as it says, 1000 years on from now and this is how I imagined how our surroundings could end up looking like”.
Nick also commented on a some art work he did for the competition though did not enter it (pictured below). “This is a piece that i devised showing a very different future, perhaps a little more controversial. Lets hope it doesn’t turn out this way.” Both of Nick Maston’s pieces are can be purchased plase click here for more information.
Beverley art gallery’s curatorial staff worked alongside two independent selectors – the painter Hilary Angle, who is Chair of East Riding Artists (ERA), and Tom Harland, who is also a painter and has a studio and gallery in North Ferriby.
G. Jack & Sons Ltd of Beverley kindly donated a luxury Christmas hamper to the artist whose work was considered the ‘most outstanding’. This year that honour has gone to Jackie Needham for ‘Sing for your Supper’ – an accomplished and humorous work, created from ceramic and found objects.
The exhibition will be officially opened by Councillor Christopher Matthews, Chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, on Thursday,10th December (5.30pm) and will run until 6th February 2010.
