An Open House is an exciting event for a house owner and for their exhibiting artists. This high profile event can be their main outlet – in terms of both exhibiting work and selling it – for the year. On these web pages you will already have read - and will read more over the coming weeks - of the effect that staging such an event has on the lives of these people.
However, there’s one group of individuals who are often present in Open Houses for whom the effect is just as exciting, the disruption equally – if not more so – intrusive and the experience in many ways, more profound. The children of Open House owners have a unique perspective on the entire event. Not many of us will have grown up in a house that was converted into a Gallery once a year and seen thousands of people streaming through our front door, into our lounges, kitchens and gardens – so how do they view the experience?
Here, three children from the same house - which opened as part of the Beyond The Level Group for five years - look back at those five months of exhibition and relate, in their own words, the experience…

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