The 15th annual East Riding Open Art Exhibition is currently on show at Beverley Art Gallery and Treasure House on Champney Road and features over 170 artworks in all different mediums.
Many of the works are for sale and would make interesting and unique Christmas presents and for the firs time this year, the gallery is offering ‘gift cards’ which can be given to the recipient before they collect the work that has been bought for them at the end of the exhibition.
The exhibition was formally opened by Councillor David Rudd, chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, who also presented a prize, kindly donated by Browns of Beverley, to the artist whose work the judges felt was the ‘most outstanding’. This was ‘North Cave Trees’ by Val Mager.
Judges this year were Kirsten Simister, Curator of Art at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and Steve Upton, Beverley artist and tutor.
The gallery is also inviting viewers to vote for a ‘People’s Prize’ which will be given at the end of the exhibition to the work that has received the most public votes. This prize is kindly sponsored by the Friends of Beverley Art Gallery.
The exhibition runs until 5 February 2011.
