curators/organisers
Lyn Cluer Coleman and Sarah Goodwin have extensive curatorial and management experience. They organise complex exhibitions, find intriguing work, curate challenging shows and present the visual arts in its many forms to encourage new ideas, change perceptions and generate dialogue.
Lyn, a practising artist, curated Stroud House Gallery for ten years, establishing a national reputation for the gallery’s demanding exhibition programme. She introduced emerging and established artists into an imaginative and flexible arena as well as curating works into public spaces.
Sarah worked closely with Lyn at Stroud House Gallery, and on other curatorial projects. Previously she has established a gallery and information
network for contemporary furniture makers and designers and practised as
a modern bookbinder and conservator.
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2011 guest selectors
Richard Billingham
Richard Billingham was born in 1970 in Birmingham. In 1996 a selection of Billinghams’ photographs of his close family was published in the book Ray’s A Laugh. These pictures earned much critical acclaim and in 1997 he was awarded the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize. In 1998 he was commissioned by Artangel to make Fishtank for BBC2, a 48min film also about his close family. Since then Billingham has continued to make photographs and videos, exhibit internationally and make photo books. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001.
Matthew Raw
Matthew Raw has just finished his MA at the Royal College of Art where he has been developing sculptural ceramic forms that explore the movement of people; of particular interest is how and why people come to the UK. “I look for new ways in which language and text can coexist with form, fusing a relationship between the narrative and the structure.” He is currently an artist in residency at the V&A Museum’s new ceramic collection. Matthew was one of The Open West selected artists in 2009 and has also exhibited at Stroud House Gallery after his work was spotted at his University of Brighton degree show. He is currently showing at the International Biennale of Vallauris.
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