Visual Arts

The annual open show invites amateur and professional artists to submit their work and win the chance to get their work exhibited, reviewed and sold in Leeds Art Gallery.

Over 450 artists flooded into the gallery earlier this month with their oils, watercolours, drawings, prints, sculptures and high hopes. Selectors then had the mammoth task of selecting the final exhibition.

This years submissions include a fascinatingly diverse mix of sculpture, photography, video art, painting and drawings, celebrating the wealth of creative talent that springs from people’s homes and studios across Yorkshire.

This year's selection panel were Moira Innes, Curator, Leeds Met Gallery; Jenny Hack, Painting Conservator, Leeds Museums and Galleries and Sheila McGregor, Chief Executive, Axis - an online resource for contemporary art.

Most of the work on exhibition is for sale, and in these recession-hit times, the prices will suit all pockets. So there are clear opportunities for regular art collectors - and those looking to start - to grab an original art work. There's even a piece of art that is simply labelled 'open to offers'!

Entry to Leeds Art Gallery is free, and the Artists Show 2009 runs from Sunday 26 July to Sunday 30 August 2009.