8 August- 12 September Newlyn Art Gallery Penzance-based artist Richard Ballinger presents a series of exotically coloured landscape paintings. Drawing from the landscape Ballinger reimagines these scenes in the studio to create works with thickly-impastoed interlocking shapes, or blocks of colour. All works are for sale
8 Aug-12 Sep Newlyn Art Gallery Rainbow Flag is a neon light installation by artist Peter Freeman, originally commissioned by Newlyn Art Galllery & The Exchange to celebrate LGBTQIA+ History Month. Situated in the Studio Café at Newlyn Art Gallery, the form of the flag echoes the shape of the large picture window and the […]
08 AUG — 19 SEP 2020 THE EXCHANGE WHAT’S YOUR ISSUE? Celebrating the tenth anniversary of our popular Cornwall-wide art prize for young people between the age of 11 and 19, the theme of 2020’s Young People’s Art Prize focussed on the art of protest. There are three age categories with prizes, and The Visitors’ […]
Cornwall, 11th March 2020 – Bursting with apple-infused tipples, an eclectic music line up and a bunch of mischievous grandmas, Little Orchard Cider & Music Festival announces ASH to play the main stage with additional performances from Fun Lovin Criminals, The Wurzels and Elvana. Popping up in the grounds of Healey’s Cyder Farm from Friday […]
19 SEP 2020 — 02 JAN 2021 NEWLYN ART GALLERY CELEBRATING CREATIVITY IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES At the height of the covid-19 pandemic we invited people of any age and at any location, to document their life during lockdown on postcards. We asked them to use any medium that would work on an A5 postcard to […]
19 SEP 2020 — 02 JAN 2021 NEWLYN ART GALLERY An Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme Exhibition. In the lower gallery, we present a series of artists’ films selected from the Arts Council Collection by young LGBTQIA+ people, through our ongoing partnership with the Intercom Trust. A taster of bigger things to come, the […]
19 SEP 2020 — 02 JAN 2021 THE PICTURE ROOM, NEWLYN ART GALLERY New paintings focussing on figures and recreational architecture, based on collages made from Clark’s own photographs of municipal buildings and seaside tourism. Found materials are sometimes stuck to the surface of the canvases, to ‘sabotage the image’ and play with the scale. […]
19 SEP 2020 — 02 JAN 2021 NEWLYN ART GALLERY FREE During the recent Covid-19 crisis many people connected through art, and used creative ways of staying together as a community. Signs Of The Times is an outdoor billboard exhibition presenting works by artists from around the UK who have made work with powerful messages […]
03 OCT 2020 — 02 JAN 2021 THE EXCHANGE FREE West Cornwall-based artist William Arnold will exhibit an ongoing body of work that documents – in razor-sharp detail – specimens of flora collected in neglected places, roadsides, industrial sites and business parks in an homage to the pioneers of Victorian botany. This exhibition was due […]
03 OCT 2020 — 02 JAN 2021 THE EXCHANGE An Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme Exhibition The Vanity of Small Differences is a series of six large-scale tapestries by the Turner-Prize winning artist Grayson Perry. Inspired by William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress the tapestries, each measuring 2m x 4m, chart the ‘class journey’ made […]
“CHRISTMAS is not cancelled.” That is the message from Redruth town who are promising the community, although it won’t be like previous years, there’s still plenty of festive cheer on offer. Redruth usually plays host to crowds of revellers who come for the town’s Christmas procession, markets, entertainment and light switch on, but this year’s […]
