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OPEN

Inspired by: Life / www.openealing.com

OPEN is a new Contemporary arts project in West London. As part of a wide re-development of the area around The Green Man Lane Estate in West Ealing, West Ealing Arts have developed a five storey office building into artist studios, exhibition spaces, a dance studio, children and adult workshop studio to start a creative regeneration and development of the arts in West London www.openealing.com

OPEN

Latest activity

progress

31/10
this is the first painting, sort of like the front cover. just waiting for the scaffolding to come down before we start the next one
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Nothing Lasts Forever

31/10
second mural painted on the badly damaged green mango cafe still closed for total refurbishment. this is the start of a project to put new work on it once a month until it re-opens hopefully next year.

Nothing Lasts Forever

31/10

Ealing Art Group 96th Annual exhibition at PM Gallery

09/09
This is the last leg of this once humble piece of chipboard's tour. Its now hung at PM Gallery in Ealing broadway (a really beautiful space that not many people know about, even in Ealing!). the Ealing Art Group (a local arts and crafts group) were having their 96th annual exhibition. I asked...
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OPEN home of the mural

24/08
After a hectic week following painting the mural, we had a great response from local media and radio and the general public who have said they really liked that creative things were happening in Ealing. The riots have created such a postive change in the community with strangers actually talking to...
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Painting the mural

15/08
on Saturday 13/8/11 we took to the streets to help reconstruct our community that has been rocked by this weeks events. I turned up at Baby e with a bag full of paints and we all set to work.  we were later unexpectedly joined by “bake for a better britain” who had made some...

Love Won't Surrender

15/08
Ealing, my home town and the base of operations for OPEN was badly affected by the recent rioting and looting that shook the capital. We took to the streets and organised an impromptu community event while we injected some love into the local area. What started as a simple idea of painting a mural...

Love Won't Surrender

15/08

OPEN launch exhibition "Hard Times"

19/07
this was the first exhibition at OPEN. the title was Hard Times. Artists were: Julie Brixey-Williams james campion charlotte cranidge Josephine davies Valerie Driscole Daniel Dutton Jack Jones Alexander R Kardes-Kaliszewski Lucie Pardue Nick Pearson Anya Red Claude Vergez Liz Warrington

The OPEN project

19/07
OPEN is an arts project that spans six floors of an old office building in Ealing, West London. We have two exhibition spaces, artist studios, three workshop studios(childrens, adults and general purpose), a dance studio and a cafe. OPEN is run by West Ealing Arts, an organisation comprised of...