NEWLYN ART GALLERY & THE EXCHANGE SUPPORT US CAFE THE EXCHANGE SUMMER/AUTUMN 2020 Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange has Discover our new pop-up coffee shop supported contemporary artists for 125 years. in the back garden at Newlyn Art GRAYSON PERRY : Today, this means championing regional Gallery, offering the same great cakes artists, presenting an ambitious national and specialty coffee as always - just THE VANITY OF SMALL and international exhibition programme, and in a takeaway form. WELCOME extending an invitation to our audience to With access from the Gallery or from DIFFERENCES come in, be inspired and take part. Newlyn Green it’s the perfect place to 3 OCT – 2 JAN BACK! We are a member of Plus Tate, a network of pick up an impromptu picnic. leading visual arts organisations that works Please note: Due to the current to increase public value and to broaden and situation our indoor cafes may be deepen engagement in art. closed on your visit while we work Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange is an on providing safe indoor spaces. Arts Council Collection National Partner. Newlyn Art Gallery, opened in 1895. The Arts Council Collection is managed by In Newlyn Art Gallery’s 125th Anniversary year, SHOPS NEWLYN ART GALLERY Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Our shops celebrate creative design New Road, Newlyn TR18 5PZ Arts Council England. we continue to champion Passmore Edwards’ belief that art, including participation in art, and the handmade in Cornwall and THE EXCHANGE can inspire change. the British Isles. Princes Street, Penzance TR18 2NL KEEP UP TO DATE Your support, as a Gallery Supporter, a Patron, Our summer featured artist is All dates and information correct at the time a donor, sponsor or volunteer, allows us to Sarah Woods with a display of a 01736 363715 | [email protected] new series of etchings based on the newlynartgallery.co.uk of going to print but maybe subject to change. reach new audiences, including harder to Please see our website for current information reach communities, with the benefits that landscape of West Cornwall in The Exchange shop. OPENING HOURS newlynartgallery.co.uk taking part can bring. Follow us on social media This extraordinary summer has allowed us We also have art materials, creative WED - SAT, 10.00 - 17.00 stationary, colourful homewares and Closed: 20 - 29 Dec, 3 Jan - 13 Feb @newlynexchange to explore new ways, digitally and in the real world, to connect with a new community of games for the whole family. groups including St Petrocs, Whole Again Pop into the shops at both our ADMISSION NEWLYN ART GALLERY & THE EXCHANGE Grayson Perry, Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close 2012 (above) and The Annunciation of the Virgin Deal 2012 Communities, young single parents, young venues or head to our online store (detail on cover), Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre London and British Council © the artist. Gift of the £3.30 (incl. a Gift Aid Donation, £3 without) IS SUPPORTED BY: curators and people in residential care, and to pick up an original gift. for a 7 day pass for both venues. artist and Victoria Miro Gallery with the support of Channel 4 Television, the Art Fund and Sfumato Foundation with we have new friends in far flung places from additional support from AlixPartners. Free entry for Patrons, Supporters, & U18s. Newlyn to New York, Penzance to Taiwan. HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT DIRECTIONS You help us to bring amazing work to Cornwall, VOLUNTEERING? The Vanity of Small Differences is a series of The programmes were first aired on Channel and to support the vital creative sector here. six large-scale tapestries by the Turner-Prize 4 in June 2012. In the series, Perry goes on The Exchange is 600m from Penzance bus We are always on the lookout for winning artist Grayson Perry. ‘a safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain’, and train stations and the harbour car park. enthusiastic volunteers to work on to gather inspiration for his artwork, literally the reception greeting our visitors Inspired by William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Newlyn Art Gallery sits at the end of Newlyn BECOME A PART OF OUR 125TH weaving the characters he meets into a and in our shops. It’s a great way to Progress, the tapestries, each measuring Green as you approach from Penzance. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION narrative, with an attention to the minutiae of be a part of the gallery and there are 2m x 4m, chart the ‘class journey’ made by The two venues are a 25-minute walk apart. BY BECOMING A GALLERY SUPPORTER, contemporary taste every bit as acute as that some nice benefits too. young Tim Rakewell and include many of PATRON, VOLUNTEER OR BUSINESS in Hogarth’s 18th century paintings. ACCESSIBILITY SPONSOR. If you feel you can spare some time the characters, incidents and objects Perry and would like to be involved, encountered on journeys through Sunderland, Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange are both Details available from both our Tunbridge Wells, and The Cotswolds for the An Arts Council Collection venues, on our website, please contact: fully accessible. Please contact the gallery if [email protected] television series All in the Best Possible National Partners Programme you have any additional requirements. or call 01736 363715. Taste with Grayson Perry. Exhibition. WELCOME BACK THE EXCHANGE NEWLYN ART GALLERY NEWLYN ART GALLERY

2020 marks the 125th anniversary HIPPO CAMPUS: WHERE WE LEARN GO ON BEING SO EXTRAORDINARY POSTCARDS of the opening of Newlyn Art Gallery. 8 AUG – 19 SEP 8 AUG – 12 SEP FOR EXTRAORDINARY TIMES And after four months of closure, we’re in the mood to celebrate! A group exhibition featuring works from 19 SEP – 2 JAN We wish you all a very warm welcome the Arts Council Collection that explores alternative schooling, peer-to-peer learning back to our galleries. At the height of the covid pandemic we and self-education. Hippo Campus looks at invited people of all ages to document how we learn, where we learn, and who we their lives during lockdown on a series of Our autumn programme forms the heart of learn from. A5 postcards. that celebration and reflects our commitment Featuring 16 artists, Hippo Campus includes Individuals and groups in Cornwall, and to projects that mean something to as many photographs of schools and students by people as possible. Our belief that art can be new friends from around the world Vanley Burke and Tony Ray-Jones, while documented their new routines and a powerful tool for change, cuts across every Emma Kay, Mariele Neudecker and Bob & strand of our work. talents discovered, or objects in their Over the past few weeks, the team has been Roberta Smith explore devices for learning © Steve Tanner home that have become all too familiar. Few artists have made a greater contribution working incredibly hard to make sure your and the fallibility of memory. Jeremy Deller Others looked forward to a future when to the general wellbeing of the nation over visit will be safe, relaxing and enjoyable, and Andy Holden present mind maps and The title also acts as a provocation, reflected the lockdown restrictions relaxed. recent months than Grayson Perry, so we whether you’re a regular, or first-time visitor. learning through popular culture, and the in works such as Gavin Jantjes’ Freedom This exhibition celebrates creativity in are delighted to present his epic series of development of language and collaborative Amongst the new measures in place are: Hunters and Donald Rodney’s Self Portrait: exceptional circumstances. tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences at play are studied by Magda Stawarska-Beavan Black Men Public Enemy. The Exchange. • Online ticketing. Where possible, help us and Ryan Gander. The closure of art schools Artists have also been responding minimise delays on your arrival and buy your across Britain has been documented by Beck Other artists include Larry Achiampong & David to these times, creating posters and Meanwhile at Newlyn Art Gallery, Rod Dickinson, Egg Bag, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Blandy, Michael Armitage, Sarah Beddington, billboards for public sites across many tickets in advance through our website. & Cornford, while Benedict Drew offers an Centre, London © the artist. Gift of Charles Saatchi, 1999 Extraordinary Postcards for Extraordinary alternative curriculum with Open School East. Michelle Williams Gamaker, Margaret Harrison, of our larger cities. We have brought Times is a record of our collective experiences • One-way routes at both venues with hand Andrew Herman, Claudette Johnson,Young In together some of the most pertinent Go On Being So is curated by the MBA of life under lockdown. Alongside, we present sanitisation stations throughout and Other exhibiting artists include Pavel Buchler, Hong, Joanna Piotrowski, Joanna Price, Ibrahim for a display facing out from the Collective, a group of art, photography and a series of artists’ films selected from the enhanced site cleaning throughout the day. Tarik Chawdry, Marcus Coates, Idle Women, Andy Holden, Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (film El-Salahi and Ross Sinclair. gallery garden. Arts Council Collection by young LGBTQIA+ Rachael Jones, Simon Patterson and still), 2011-2016. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, graphics students from Mounts Bay Academy • All staff will be wearing facemasks or visors collaborators. Libuse Taylor. London. © the artist aged between 12 and 16 years. An Arts Council Collection Request a postcard pack by sending your and we encourage visitors to do the same. National Partners Programme Exhibition. postal address to [email protected] An incidental conversation between the A taster of bigger things to come, the Don’t worry if you forget your mask. We Please bring your own earphones to listen to Extraordinary Postcards for Extraordinary Times programme extends our commitment to have plenty. the audio works in the exhibition. ALSO SHOWING: 14 students around what it means to be a using our partnership with the Arts Council global citizen was the starting point for their • You will also find an altered café service at An Arts Council Collection Collection to give voice to individuals exploration of the Arts Council Collection, ALSO SHOWING: ALSO SHOWING: Newlyn, including a new pop-up garden café, National Partners Programme Exhibition. YOUNG PEOPLE’S ART PRIZE and communities whose views are often bringing together an intriguing selection of serving take-away drinks and treats. 8 AUG – 19 SEP overlooked. Finally, in the garden, we reflect works that say something about the world IN THE PICTURE ROOM CERAMICS EXHIBTION ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION FILMS today and their place in it. MBA Collective 8 AUG – 2 JAN 19 SEP – 2 JAN on artists’ responses to recent events, in • Card-only payments. Please pay by contactless WHAT’S YOUR ISSUE? Celebrating the tenth RICHARD BALLINGER looked for works which resonated with them, particular the Coronavirus epidemic and as we will not be accepting cash payments. anniversary of our popular Cornwall-wide 8 AUG – 12 SEP A mixed display featuring works by some Over the past twelve months we have been the Black Lives Matter movement, through while also considering pieces that illustrated of our favourite makers including soda- working with a group of LGBTQIA+ young More information about our safety measures art prize for young people between the age Penzance-based artist Richard Ballinger posters and placards. issues other young people in different parts of fired pieces by Jack Doherty, contemporary people from across Cornwall, through our can be found on our website, but please get of 11 and 19, this year’s theme focusses presents a series of exotically coloured Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange is an the world may be facing. tableware by Dor & Tan, new work by Jode partners at the Intercom Trust, to curate It has been an exceptionally difficult year, but in touch if you have any concerns prior to on the art of protest, with more than 100 landscape paintings. Drawing from the Arts Council Collection National Partner. Pankhurst, and elegant pieces by The an exhibition drawing on the Arts Council join us in reflecting on the past and imagining arriving, and most of all have a relaxed and shortlisted works on display. Thanks to Classic The title Go On Being So refers to a quest landscape Ballinger reimagines these Great Pottery Throwdown judge Sue Pryke. Collection. This programme of films selected the future we all want. enjoyable visit. The Arts Council Collection is managed by Cottages and GreatArt for supporting the Young for strength and resilience, as demonstrated scenes in the studio to create works with by the group, offers a taster of an exciting Southbank Centre, London on behalf of People’s Art Prize, and helping to nurture in works such as Karl Ohiri’s How to Mend A thickly-impastoed interlocking shapes, or All works are for sale. James Green, Gallery Director Arts Council England. creative talent in the region. Broken Heart, and Rod Dickinson’s Egg Bag. blocks of colour. All works are for sale. and ambitious project to come.