What’s On

In Being John Smith, 2024, the artist reflects on the ordinariness of his name and its profound impact on his sense of self.

To mark the end of her month-long residency, Lissette Jiménez Díaz will host an open studio, offering visitors an opportunity to see works in progress made during her time at CAST.

Selected 15 is a touring showcase of new short films by early career artists.

This presentation of two short films, made some twenty years apart, offers a window into the creative processes of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge.

Join our team of talented artists and learn how to make nature-print photo journals and create constructions from wood. You can also mix earth colours and botanical inks to paint with and make your own ‘monster’ self-portrait!

Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities will return this summer, with sessions taking place on Saturdays from 26 July to 23 August in the walled garden at National Trust Penrose.

Build your own extravagant flower crown to wear out of cardboard and use flotsam and jetsam to add to giant aquarium. Try your hand at stone carving and wood working, and spend time playing with clay and paint.

Three free days of family friendly activity will offer the chance to experiment with some of the scientific techniques that underpin the processes of photography and moving image.

Use pipes and tubes to make a structure to carry water around the garden, and see what you can build from wood. Spend time painting and try your hand at printmaking using a portable press.

Listen carefully and sculpt the sounds you hear out of different coloured plasticine, or see what water-carrying structures you can make with tubes and pipes. There will also be an opportunity to try your hand at printmaking and build with clay.

Learn how to make your own plantable paper with seeds embedded, create your own construction from wood, or polish serpentine into a shiny pendant. You can also have a go on our tiny printing press as well as building with clay.