the open west was established in 2007 as a not-for-profit organisation to provide the opportunity for UK and international artists to exhibit their work to a new audience in the South West. In a short space of time it has achieved a highly visible reputation for excellence and innovation.
curators/organisers
Lyn Cluer Coleman and Sarah Goodwin have extensive curatorial and management experience. They organise complex exhibitions, find intriguing work, curate challenging shows, create educational programmes 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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2012 guest selectors
Daniel Chadwick
Known for his mechanical evocation of nature, Daniel Chadwick trained in engineering and worked at Zaha Hadid Architects between 1987 and 1991. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad, recently including Gallery Eleven, Pangolin, The Fine Art Society and the Kinetica Museum, London and in 2010 exhibited his White Mobile I in Crucible at Gloucester Cathedral. In 2008, he was shortlisted for the new World Trade Center buildings in New York City. He has also undertaken many important commissions.
Iain Andrews
Iain was a selected artist in the open west 2011 and recipient of the Marmite Painting Prize 2011. Future and recent exhibitions include Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011 (touring UK), Contemporary Approaches to Watercolour (Mall Galleries, London), Polemically Small (Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles) and We are all in this together (Bureau Gallery, Manchester). He currently works as an artist in residence and Art Psychotherapist at Trinity High School in Manchester. “My recent work is concerned with the struggle to capture the relationship between the spiritual and the sensual, apparent opposites that are expressed in my work through the conflict of high narrative themes and sensuous painterly marks”.
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