This year’s selected artists for East Sussex Open 2015 are:
| Victoria Albuquerque | Eden Kötting |
| George Antoni | Alexander Johnson |
| Ian Baker | Mike Leale |
| Tom Banks | Chris Liddiard |
| Ben Browton | Alice Mara |
| Melissa Campbell | Maslen & Mehra in collaboration with Shuby and Delete |
| Philip Cole | Nicholas May |
| Alex Currie | Terry McCormack |
| David Rees Davis | David Muchmore |
| Brian Deighton | Danny Pockets |
| Alexandra Drawbridge | Guyan Porter |
| Gary Edwards | George Robertson |
| Gabrielle Farah | Scott Robertson |
| Ros Faram | Brian Rybolt |
| Gary Goodman | David Slack |
| Charlotte Lambert-Gorwyn | Mike Stoakes |
| Scanlon&Grivell | Wycliffe Stutchbury |
| Mick Hawksworth | Michael Tierney |
| Christopher Hoggins | Andrew Voyce |
| Chris Shaw Hughes | Lynn Weddle |
| Andrew Kötting | Susan Mackey |
| Ida Holbrook | Glen Walker |
Photos: Avant Commercial
ABOUT THE GUEST SELECTORS
Jonathan Watkins has been Director of Ikon Gallery since 1999; previously, he was Curator of the Serpentine Gallery and Director of Chisenhale Gallery.
Watkins has curated a number of large international exhibitions such as Iraqi Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2013, Guangzhou Triennial, Shanghai Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, and Tate Triennial.
Jonathan Watkins has written extensively on contemporary art, with recent essays on the work of Giuseppe Penone, Martin Creed, Semyon Faibisovich, Yang Zhenzhong, Noguchi Rika, Caro Niederer, Beat Streuli and Cornelia Parker. He was the author of the Phaidon monographonJapanese artist On Kawara.
Saskia Olde Wolbers is an artist based in London. Since the mid-1990s Olde Wolbers has been making videos that combine fictional and documentary elements in their scripts with fabricated otherworldly analogue imagery. The videos are shot in model sets that are dipped in paint and submerged in water. These documents of a real time process make for unstable imagery that intuitively guide the voice-over. Her work Trailer (2005) was recently exhibited in Towner’s Twixt Two Worlds exhibition.
Olde Wolbers has exhibited her work widely including Art Unlimited Art Basel, Museum M Leuven, Secession Vienna, The Goetz Collection, Mori museum Tokyo, MOCA San Diego, The Hirshhorn Museum Washington DC, The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Tate Britain London. In 2003 she won the Baloise Prize at Statements Basel and in 2004 the Beck’s Futures Prize. Recently she completed Yes These Eyes are the Windows 2014, an Artangel commission and short film.
Saskia Olde Wolbers is represented by Maureen Paley, London and Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam.
Exhibition images by Avant Commercial and Alison Bettles
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