Katherine Hymers, Crimson (2006). Courtesy Kettle's Yard

Cambridge will be host to some of the region’s most exciting new art at the eighth Kettle’s Yard Open.

The exhibition, which runs from November 25 to January 7 2007, has become known as one of the major showcases for artists working in the east of England.

This year’s open features 19 emerging and established artists selected by artist and filmmaker Jayne Parker and artist David Ward. The exhibits range from painting and photography to film, sound and installations.

Rob Smith, Circumference (2006). Courtesy Kettle's Yard

Paintings in the show include those by Amanda Ansell, whose fictitious islands are inspired by bathing rituals and bath foam. The landscape theme is also used by Deborah Sedgick’s aerial views and Julia Ball’s light abstractions from the Norfolk coast.

Jo Chapman will create a wall drawing at Kettle’s Yard with intertwined flowers, plants and other objects found in horticultural illustrations and her daily walks. Journeys are the inspiration for Joan Murray’s drawing, which incorporate images from map and tracings of her own walks.

Film installations feature heavily in this year’s open. An ant runs obsessively around the rim of Terry Bond’s short film Equator, while Ginny Read fills the screen with an inflating balloon before all is revealed with a bang.

Anna Ilsley, Life and Death (2006). Courtesy Kettle's Yard

Neil Henderson has created a reversed film of a developing Polaroid, using it to produce a twilight seascape. David Gates’s atmospheric animation of a row of seaside houses in Jaywick, Essex, features a sequence of pinhole photographs taken with his hand-built camera and hand-coated glass plates.

Visitors to Kettle’s Yard will also be able to meet some of the featured artists, who will be talking about their work on December 2, 9 and 16.