CRASH OPEN SALON SHOW

26thNovember–21st December2010

The Charlie Dutton Gallery is proud to present our first Salon Show, the “CRASH OPEN”. Hung floor to ceiling in Paintings, Print and Photography, it will be a grotto of art, an exciting and exhilarating treasure trove in which anyone can discover and take home the next big thing.

Charlie Dutton (Director/Curator), Matthew Collings (Art critic) and Dan Hays (Artist) are the selectors of this years show, and they have whittled down the submissions to just over 30 works to be exhibited, from nearly 1000 pieces that were sent in from mid-career and emerging artists.

The standard of work that was entered was incredibly high, and it has been a great pleasure, if a challenging one, to choose those pieces to be exhibited. From the show there will an overall winner who will be awarded the Saffin prize 2010 and who will have a solo show in 2011. We hope that runners-up will also exhibit in a group show at the Charlie Dutton gallery next year.

Artists: Aidan Doherty / Alex Hudson / Alyson Helyer / Bella Easton / Bridget Jackson Catherine Lindsay-Davies Christine Stark / Cyrus Iravani / Daniel Dutton / Dermot Pummet / Eleanor Engle / Garth Lewis / Geoffrey Litherland / Greg Rook / Hugh Mendes / Iain Andrews / Joseph Falconer / Josie Faure Walker / Katrina Blannin / Kostas Georgiou / Luci Eldridge / Luke Drozd / Mandy Hudson / Meike Baumeister / Nigel Grimmer / Paul Davis / Peter Blundell / Peter rourke / Phoebe Mitchell / Roberto Ekholm / Ruth Solonus / Sandra Naxara / Saskia Pomeroy / Simon Leahy-Clark / Steven Foy / Steven Malies / Susan Francis / Tim Bailey / Trevor Attwood / Uz Afzal