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JUL10 LOCAL ART FEED: CORNWALL from galleries magazine at GALLERIES .co.uk 23. GALLERIES JULY 10 ARTINCORNWALL fascination for coastline. But drawings evoking birds in flight or where 'Object: Gesture: Grid' even this could be misleading: Jo Welsh's bizarre and vaguely contextualises St Ives within the Gardiner's impetus shares more threatening, almost Bosch-like wider framework of mid-20th C. with the surrealist, neo-roman- etchings and you will sense the European and US art and traces ticism of such mid 20th C. figures range and frisson of the selection. the influences and interplay at as Tunnard or Paul Nash, whose Padstow Studio rarely hold work between the two. former flat in Swanage he rented exhibitions as such: artist/owner It's a real ooh, ahh exhibition while working on his 'Jurassic Sarah Adams works upstairs and and is, or should be, something of Coast' series. Nash described the shows a range of excellent work in a crowd puller, drawing as it does coast there as having, “a strange the gallery below – Rachel Budd's upon the Tate's own collection of fascination, like all things which landscapes and textiles by Kim British and international work of combine beauty, ugliness and the Bentley (who designed for Paul the period and bringing key power to disquiet”. Much the Smith, Liberty's and the V&A but is pieces (overdue some might say – same can be said of the penin- now going it alone) are two worthy the last time was ten years ago) to sula's rugged, wild, post industrial recent additions. But this month this far flung home of British coastline, a fact not lost on the focus has to be on Sarah's Modernism. Until September 26 Gardiner who, working a good own work – large, panoramic the thinking of Nicholson and deal in situ, has the ability to mine views of coastline and caves, Hepworth is illuminated by the the seemingly timeless topo- often the same view repeated but presence of Picasso, Braque and graphy for those fleeting transient in changing light emphasising Brancusi while cross-currents of moments of veracity that are the different details, different extra- painterly expression are made real Pip Palmer highlights some of this month’s outstanding shows very spirit of place. ordinary textures. A large oil from by the likes of Pollock, de Kooning Writer and art critic Andrew the 'Buttress' series which was and Rothko. Celebrating its 10th anniversary particular) often set in mystic Lambirth's assertion that, “St Ives 'Viewers Choice' at the Royal West this year Badcocks Gallery in landscapes that suggest dream- is famous for its art, but it's high of England autumn show and a Sarah Adams, ‘Buttress 2’, oil on linen, 75 x 180cm at Padstow Studio. Maggi Newlyn is now well established as like narratives and elusive relat- time there was some new blood in further study that won the Meynell Hambling, ‘Laughing Wave 1’, acrylic on paper, one of the most significant gall- ionships. Echoes of myth and the galleries of Cornwall”, is one Fenton prize at 'Discerning Eye' 2009, 12” x 16” at Wills Lane Gallery. Ben eries in the peninsula. This is antiquity together with the ex- that chimes well with Petronilla are here, as are other remarkable Nicholson, ‘Five Circles’, 1934/62. Jeremy Gardiner, ‘Mellow Sun, Wheal Cotes’, acrylic & Elizabeth Hunter's second exhi- periences of travel and the rich- Silver, Director of the Wills Lane paintings from the series. mixed media on panel, 30 x 46cm, both at bition here but she too is no ness of a life well lived give a Gallery who, since its re-opening A small but perfectly formed Belgrave Gallery. Constantin Brancusi, ‘Fish’, at treat awaits visitors to Tate St Ives Tate St Ives. Elizabeth Hunter, ‘Woman by the stranger to the area. After bagging meditative quality and spirituality in 2007, has consistently shown Sea’, 50 x 50cm an impressive array of awards for to this painterly, beautiful and interesting work by 'out of county portraiture and drawing at the compelling work. artists'. Apposite then that Lam- Slade, she initially moved here in Recounting that artist Jeremy birth has been given free reign for the 60s, beginning an involvement Gardiner based 'Atlantic Edge', his his 'Critic's Choice' –- a selection with the heady St Ives art scene recent exploration of the coastline of work by fourteen artists that is that included co-curating, and of West Cornwall at Belgrave hard to fault. There are exuberant indeed for a time living in, the then Gallery, on a similar journey taken sea studies by Maggi Hambling Victor Pasmore, now Newlyn Art by pre-Raphaelite John Brett and watercolours of trees by CHRIS INSOLL Gallery. Resident again in might give a false impression. John Hubbard while David Inshaw Penzance and now in her 70s, Though he admires the earlier (lyrical and as evocative of Eng- New Gallery Hunter has moved away from artist's work they have little in land as Elgar) is also well Portscatho Cornwall TR2 5HW early abstraction and once more common beyond an intense represented. Contrast this with T: 01872 580 445 focuses on the figure (the head in involvement with landscape and a Jason Gathorne-Hardy's graphite JUL10 LOCAL ART FEED: CORNWALL from galleries magazine at GALLERIES .co.uk 24. GALLERIES JULY 10 MAP 9 ENGLAND CORNWALL Annie Hewett’s ceramics, Magie Hollingworth’s paper bowls e PADSTOW and Suzanne Potter’s silver jewellery all express joys of WADEBRIDGE everyday life. Glass fibre sculpture by James Barnsley and steel wire ‘creatures’ by Fiona Campbell in the gardens. 0 BODMIN NEWQUAY A3 Tue–Sat 10.30–5.30 [email protected] FRADDON www.yewtreegallery.com b t 01736 786425 ST AUSTELL FOWEY ST AGNES d TREWITHEN 90 NEWLYN 0 A3 BADCOCKS GALLERY A3 STST IVESIVES TRURO TREGONY gThe Strand, Newlyn, Penzance TR18 5HW f 9 h VERYAN HAYLE 3 ‘Lovers & Landscapes’ – mystical and magical paintings by MORVAH A c PORTSCATHO PENRYN Elizabeth Hunter plus mixed show of RomiBehrens and ST MAWES other gallery artists’ paintings. Jul 8–Aug 3. ST JUST PENZANCEPENZANCE HELSTONFALMOUTH Mon–Fri 10–5, Sat 11–5 NEWLYN g a www.badcocksgallery.co.uk LAND'S END MULLION t 01736 366159 ISLES OF LIZARD SCILLY i NEWLYN ART GALLERY gNew Road, Newlyn TR18 5PZ NSA RealityCheck. May 29–Jul 10. KESTLE BARTON Newlyn Society ofArtists exhibition exploring how artists aManaccan, Helston, Cornwall TR12 6HU engage with and respond to real life. Rupture: Photography by Patrick Shanahan. May 30–Jul 17. The House of Fairy Tales: Exquisite Trove. Jul 23–Oct 2. Sarah Adams, Carnewas 1, oil on linen, 60 x 120 cm Undulate: Sculpture by Michael Chaikin. Jul 24–Aug 21. Travelling collection ofmysterious objects frommore than Tue–Sat 10–5, throughout BHol weekends & by appt 100 artists, merged with extraordinary artefacts on loan www.kestlebarton.co.uk from West Cornwall museums. Featuring storytelling areas, t 01326 231811 fairytale books and activities for children of all ages. Sarah Adams THE PADSTOW STUDIO Mon–Sat 10–5, closed Sun MID CORNWALL GALLERIES [email protected] 30D UKE STREET PADSTOW PL28 8AB bSt Blazey Gate, Par, Cornwall PL24 2EG www.newlynartgallery.co.uk Open all year round. On the A390. Exhibiting some ofthe t 01736 363715 finest contemporary arts and crafts. *Own Art see Penzance map for Exchange shows Mon–Sat 10–5 Thursday Friday Saturday 11 - 1 2 - 5 or by appointment t 01841 533777 www.padstowstudio.co.uk [email protected] www.midcornwallgalleries.co.uk TRURO t 01726 812131 LEMON STREET GALLERY h13 Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall TR1 2LS THE NEW GALLERY John Hoyland: Recent Paintings. Jun 12–Jul 3. cPortscatho, Cornwall, TR2 5HW Kurt Jackson: The Dart. Sep 4–Oct 2. *pr *ad Mark Surridge ‘Openings’ An Artists’ run showroom and studios established 1985. Catalogue on request. Subject ofthe book PORTSCATHO Portrait of a Cornish Art Mon–Sat 10.30–5.30 26th June until 18th July Colony. *ad [email protected] Artists include Chris Insoll, Trevor Felcey, Eric Ward, Grace www.lemonstreetgallery.co.uk Gardner, Andrea Insoll, Anne Plummer, David Shutt and t 01872 275757 visiting artists associated with Portscatho. Joy Wolfenden Brown Usually openThur, Fri, Sat 10–12.30, 2–5 or appt. Please call: ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM t 01872 580 445 hRoyal Institution of Cornwall, River Street, Truro TR1 2SJ David Kemp: ‘The Botallack Hoard’. Apr 10–Jul 3. 24th July until 22nd August OVER THE MOON GALLERY “Relics, artefacts and god-dollies from the consumer cults dChurchtown, St Agnes, Cornwall TR5 0QW that thrived on the South West peninsula at the end ofthe ‘Summer arrived with a song ofcolour’ paintings by Steve 2nd millennium.” Slimm in the lower gallery and ‘Dreamy Moments’ paintings Matt Robinson: New Buildings in Ancient Materials – Earth by Siobhan Purdy in the upper gallery. Both Jul 1–Aug 5. and Timber Structures in Cornwall. May 1–Aug 28. Plus the usual diverse range ofwork by gallery artists. Take One Painting. Jun 21–Sep 11. Mon–Sat 10–4.30 Work by young artists and writers inspired by paintings in www.overthemoongallery.co.uk the collection. t 01872 552251 Truro Uncovered. Jul 17–Sep 4. Work by local people using Cornish archives. eTHE PADSTOW STUDIO www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk 30 Duke Street, Padstow, Cornwall PL28 8AB t 01872 272205 Contemporary drawings and paintings by Sarah Adams, Rachel Budd, Mark Cazalet, Lynn Golden, Alison Pullen, MILLENNIUM Kit Surrey, Anita Taylor, Chris Thomas and Paul Thomas. SCILLY ISLES Sculpture by Mo Farquharson and ceramics by GALLERY TRESCO iNew Grimsby, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall TR24 0QE James Campbell.