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Pilvi Takala | Talk and Screening

For this special event, the internationally renowned Finnish artist Pilvi Takala will travel to Cornwall to talk about her work. The special evening with will include the presentation of an early slide work, Bag Lady, and the screening of two short films, followed by an ‘in conversation’ and Q&A. The programme includes: Real Snow White,…

Andy Holden | Talk at Falmouth School of Art

Falmouth School of Art will screen Holden’s A Natural History of Nest Building, 2017, (30 minutes 30 seconds) followed by an artist talk. The evening is programmed to coincide with The Cornwall Workshop 2019, led by Holden and held at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula, Andy Holden’s work takes a multitude of forms – large installations or sculptures, long-form videos,…

BRICKS AND CHINA CLAY | AN EVENING OF TALKS AND DISCUSSION

Artist Rosanna Martin and historian Ivor Bowditch will contribute to an evening exploring connections between brick-making and china clay production. China clay has a vast range of uses, from ceramics to paper and from pharmaceuticals to building materials. It was discovered by William Cookworthy on Tregonning Hill near Helston in 1746 and that discovery led to the…

MONUMENTAL LIZARD | HISTORIC LANDMARKS UNDER THREAT

The Lizard, Cornwall is home to a host of historic sites, many of which are in a state of decline. Although scheduled as monuments and protected by legislation, these sites are rarely well known and almost never properly understood. Concerned about the potential loss of some of the physical remains of over 4,000 years of…

W.S. GRAHAM | READING GROUP

Poets Sam Buchan-Watts and Lavinia Singer will run a relaxed reading group of some key works by the modernist poet W. S. Graham (1918–86), who lived for most of his writing life in Cornwall. Lavinia Singer is a poetry editor at Faber & Faber. Her poetry explores image-making and materiality, and has appeared in various magazines, journals and…

TRY TO BE BETTER I AN EVENING OF POETRY AND DISCUSSION

Poets Lavinia Singer and Sam Buchan-Watts will introduce the idiosyncratic creative practice of the modernist poet W. S. Graham (1918-86) before inviting artists and writers to read from, and reflect on, their contributions to the publication Try To Be Better. The publication is a multi-disciplinary engagement with the life and works of W. S. Graham, who…