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Main Gallery: Members Spring Exhibition
Continues until 16th June 2025. A diverse exhibition of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and prints from the Members of The Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.
A diverse exhibition of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and prints from the Members of The Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.
Lanyon Gallery: Moor to See
Penwith in the Penwith – a selection of Penwith Gallery artists explore their relationship with and conceptualisation of our wild and uncut landscape. A mix of bronze sculpture, 3D forms, ceramic lustreware and stunning painted interpretations of the raw Penwith topography.
The featured artists invited by Tom span five decades and each bring their own interpretation of their Penwith home.
Presenting works by Tom Leaper, Jason Lilley, Sutton Taylor, Philip Wakeham, Sophie Fraser, El Matador Del Muerte and Kleiner Shames in a kaleidoscope of creative interaction with their environment.
Studio Gallery: Karen McEndoo & Aidan Hicks
Abstract paintings and primitive sculpture echoing the Ancient Cornish land.
Based in Cornwall, Karen McEndoo’s work is drawn from the dichotomy of chaos and humanity’s constant search for balance, exploring the diametric of light and dark, existence, non-existence, matter and anti-matter.
Bleary forms abut sharp blocks of colour generating a sense of movement; a dancing shift in focus. At first seemingly restful, McEndoo’s work is imbued with a taut energy.
Aidan Hicks likes to use all sorts of stone, even concrete, but has found that the richly textured and mineralised granite he sources from his own family farm has a very special appeal. He finds it very satisfying to take rock from earth that has both a personal and long family association and then re-form it into sculpture.
This taking of the stone from the earth also fits with many of his inspirations for his work. He has always been interested in the relationship people have had with stone in their environment, in archaeology and ancient and mediaeval sculpture. The ambiguities introduced to an antique object through weathering, together with the inevitable erosion of original meaning over time, is also something he thinks about when shaping his stones.
Hepworth Room: Mixed Archive Exhibition
Featuring Sir Terry Frost's iconic 'Black Sun', 1976, and 'Standard Banbury', 1964.
Lanyon Gallery: Lydia Corbett (née Sylvette David) | The Muse and The Loving Minotaur
‘Sylvette David Looking Back at Picasso’ Saturday 21st June 11:00 A Talk with the Artist and Lucien Berman. Meet the Artist Saturday 21st June 11:30 – 13:00.
Lydia Corbett (née Sylvette David) is a visionary artist, no less visionary for her failing eyesight, as her subject is focused on inner vision, inner presence. Lydia Corbett’s Retrospective Exhibition at the Penwith Gallery is curated by the artist along with Lucien Berman, Jason Lilley and Tom Leaper.
Lydia Corbett, also known as Sylvette David and known to art lovers all over the world as “The Girl with the Ponytail”, is Pablo Picasso’s last living muse.
Studio Gallery: Rod Walker & David Kemp | Still Life
“Look at the granite strewn landscape. Jagged stone spires light up the yellow moor tops. The fast changing storm clouds sweep in from the West horizon. The waves break the rocks break the waves break the rocks break the waves.
How should we describe such a show?
In derelict cow houses? In ruined mine buildings? With hammer and chisel? Paint brushes, camera or pen?
Or sixty years of trying?”
- David Kemp and Rod Walker
Main Gallery: Members Summer Exhibition
A diverse exhibition of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and prints from the Members of The Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.
A diverse exhibition of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and prints from the Members of The Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.
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