‘Noa’ Notes from the margins
23-24 Sept at The Lafrowda Club, St Just, Cornwall. 6-9pm.
Two evenings featuring a collaborative installation between Mike Thorpe and Terry Gibson with soundscapes, film and artworks from a residency early this year at Brisons Veor.
Free admission
NSA members Heather McAlpine and Mike Newton, together with Lynette Pierce, have an exhibition 3 ST. IVES PAINTERS, at the Crypt Gallery, St. Ives.
They would love you to join them for a glass of wine at the Private View this Saturday 22nd July 3 – 5pm.
The exhibition is open daily 10.30 – 5.00 and runs until Friday 28th July. It’s a great show – hope you can make it!
NSA member Mike Newton is taking part in a special exhibition at the St Ives School of Painting. The Living and the Dead is a collaboration between painter Mike Newton, poet Mike Stevens and sound artist Christian Guerrini, all living and working in St Ives. The exhibition features Mike Newton’s portraits of six Romantic poets and Mike Steven’s poetry based on redacted words from the same poets together with further portraits and original poems by Newton and Stevens . The private view on Friday 30th December 6.30 – 9pm will include a reading of the poems by Mike Stevens with sounds by Christian Guerrini and a Q&A session giving the background to the genesis of the project. Limited seating and drinks are provided. The show runs from 27th December to 2nd January at the Borlase Smart Room, St Ives School of Painting, Back Road West, St Ives.
NSA member Daniel Turner will be exhibiting his work at the Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery in a show entitled The Paint Club.
On show will be a series of small, individually framed, oil on panel paintings made over the last two years, part of an ongoing series The Paint Club. The themes within the works include peril, loss, devotion, and salvation.
“I like the notion that all painters essentially operate under the same conditions and that painting is somehow a different thing Art wise. I think once you realise painters paint the way they do because they can’t do it any other way, have spent years working towards this realisation, then Painting and the trappings of The Painter become interesting subjects in their own right.”
Daniel Turner is a contemporary British artist working in Cornwall whose work examines the rituals of the painter, the act of painting and the nature and functions of the painting and the studio.
The exhibition runs from 5th November 2022 to 7th January 2023 at the NEWLYN ART GALLERY, New Road, Newlyn, TR18 5PZ
“There’s usually an experience or a moment I’m trying to express or capture, though sometimes it feels like clutching at smoke.”
Ken Turner has lived and worked in St Ives since the nineties, and has been a constant
and passionate contributor to the West Penwith Arts ‘scene’, with his memorable live
performances, and provocative paintings. Between Friday 14th Oct and Wed 26th, at the
PZ Gallery in Penzance, Ken will show a selection of his paintings and drawings from the
1960’s to the present. You are warmly invited to the Private View on Friday Oct 14th 5pm
to celebrate his life and work, where he will give a brief talk about the importance of artists’
studio practice as a philosophical tool.
On Saturday 22nd October at 5pm there will be a performance at the gallery, where Ken will
collaborate with dancer Stephanie Richards in response to his paintings.
Ken will be in conversation with visual anthropologist Professor Amanda Ravetz on Monday 24th October
NSA member Ashley Hanson is showing his Porthleven series of paintings as part of the Porthleven Arts Festival on 27th September. There will be a talk and presentation of the 60 paintings in the series on Tuesday 27th September from 4-5pm at the Breageside Netloft. On Wednesday 28th September there will be a preview of the Freedom in Painting in Porthleven exhibtion from 5.30 – 7pm at The Old Lifeboat House and the exhibition itself will be open for 1 day only on Thursday 29th September from 10-5pm. on Friday 30th September there will be Open Studio and exhibition of 20 of the Porthleven series paintings at the same venue.
The St Ives September Festival will be showing As I Was Going to St Ives – a new documentary film about three visual artists who work with text and who have connections to St Ives – NSA member Vivian Pedley, together with artists Rex Dixon and Adrian Frost. Showing at the Penwith Gallery in St Ives, with an accompanying exhibition, the film will premiere on the 13th September with a 5.30 opening and bar. It will then continue showing during the St Ives September Festival from 14 – 24 September 2022. A short trailer for the film can be seen here
NSA member Stuart Ross has an exhibition of recent work opening at the Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery next month. The show will run from 6th – 19th August, open daily 11-5pm.
