
EAST has spent the last 19 years building the trust of artists in the fairness and non-exploitative values of EAST. We have had to overcome criticism of open shows and find ways to attract the best artists to go in for EAST. In this we have been helped by a magnificent list of selectors many of who are artists. EAST has reinvigorated the idea of open submission exhibitions in Britain. The trust of artists in the democratic structure of an open exhibition has enabled EAST to become an annual challenge to the expertise of the Contemporary Art Establishment.
2009 EAST selectors Raster and Art and Language
2007 EAST selectors Matthew Higgs and Marc Camille Chaimowicz
2006 EAST selectors Jeremy Deller and Dirk Snauwaert
2005 EAST selector Gustav Metzger
2004 EAST selectors Neo Rauch and Gerd Harry Lybke
2003 EAST selectors Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild
2002 EAST selectors Lawrence Weiner and Jack Wendler
2001 EAST selectors Mary Kelly and Peter Wollen
2000 EAST selectors Keith Piper and Sebastian Lopez
1999 EAST selectors Peter Doig and Roy Arden
1998 EAST selectors Alan Charlton and Michel Durand-Dessert
1997 EAST selectors Nicholas Logsdail and Tacita Dean
1996 EAST selectors Richard Long and Roger Ackling
1995 EAST selectors Giuseppe Penone and Marian Goodman
1994 EAST selectors Jan Dibbets and Rudi Fuchs
1993 EAST selectors David Tremlett and Konrad Fischer
1992 EAST selectors Helen Chadwick and Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
1991 EAST selectors Alexander Moffat and Andrew Brighton