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Exeter Contemporary Open 2024

Annual exhibition featuring fifteen contemporary visual artists from across the UK.

Leigh Curtis

This year’s Exeter Contemporary Open takes place from 12 September to 2 November at the Phoenix Gallery.

The annual exhibition features the work fifteen contemporary visual artists in painting, sculpture, photography and video. It has been selected from hundreds of entries from across the UK.

The exhibiting artists are Milly Peck, Low Profile, Arun Sood, Henry Miller, Lynn Fulton, Laura Wormell, Ruth Calland, Nicola Bealing, Jess Scott, Min Angel, Monica Perez Vega, Inaki Susbielles, Laura Hopes, Yeon Sung Lee and Sharp.

Two prizes, one £1,000 the other £500, will be selected by a judging panel and presented on the exhibition opening night.

The recipient of an £200 audience choice award, voted for by exhibition visitors, will be announced in the final week of the exhibition.

Exeter Contemporary Open

Exeter Contemporary Open was established in 2006 and is now an annual event.

The 2024 selection panel was Jes Fernie, independent curator and lecturer at Central St Martins, Tania Kovats, artist and professor at the University of Dundee, and Matt Burrows, curator and gallery manager at Exeter Phoenix.

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Exeter Contemporary Open runs from Thursday 12 September to Saturday 2 November 2024 at the Phoenix Gallery, Exeter Phoenix.

Informal tours of the exhibition take place at 1.30pm on Wednesday 2 October and Saturday 19 October.

Entry to the exhibition and tours is free.

For more information visit the Exeter Contemporary Open website.

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