ANNUAL OPEN #29 The legendary unselected exhibition, which has led the field in ‘hang the lot’ aesthetics since 1984.

Congratulations to Vic Forest and Ben GJ Thomas who were selected by Artist | Patron Andrew Kötting to share the Best In Show award.

The emphasis of the Annual Open continues to be on the display of small works, affordable and accessible to the public. The exhibition retains its original intention, maintaining the tradition of a well established, recognized and popular annual event attracting new generations of exhibitors and gallery visitors.

Members of the public are directed by road signs to the gallery from Canada Water underground station which is on the Jubilee and Overground Lines. After a short walk through this year’s spectacular leaf fall in Southwark Park; to enter the gallery is to pass from the red and gold colours of approaching winter into a bright palace of massed contemporary iconography in the forms of sculptures, videos, prints and drawings, photographic works, as well as of the variously textured and pigmented paintings which surround us stacked high up to the ceiling of this Aladdin’s Cave.