CAST-Off Saturday 10 August
Transform yourself into a mythical creature by making your own folk-inspired mask. Build your own wooden construction. Gather natural materials and use them to make a cyanotype print, using the power of the sun.
CAST-Off Saturday 3 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with, in our colour kitchen. Build your own wooden construction. Make houses, people, cars, trees, and animals to create a clay world!
CAST-Off Saturday 27 July
Join our talented artist team to learn how to engrave a tiny plate to print on our miniature printing press. Draw or press your own tessellating patterns into clay, using a set stamps made especially by the team at Clay Trap
Q&A with Marcus Coates and Charlotte Williams
In January/February 2024 CAST presented Marcus Coates’s Artangel commission, The Directors, a collaboration between the artist and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Marcus Coates visited Cornwall to give an artist’s talk at CAST and to engage in conversation with psychoanalyst llric Shetland. On the morning of that day, he visited…
Marcus Coates
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Positioned behind the camera, each of them directs Coates in a filmed re-staging of a particular episode from their life.
The Boats
Blue Mermaid, 2019 (replica of original built 1930) Sea-Change Sailing Trust Blue Mermaid is a steel-hulled, 87’ Thames sailing barge built in 2019. She is a replica of an older vessel of the same name, built in 1930 and sunk by enemy action during the Second World War. Blue Mermaid was built specifically to operate…
Arts & Crafts of the Sea
Materials Greg Powlesland is an artist and expert boat restorer who lives on the Helford River in Cornwall. Over the years, he has collected rare maritime items and materials. Most of these materials are natural rather than man-made and this chapter explores his collection. Starting with him sketching the Looe lugger Guide Me as she…
Wind, Tide & Oar
Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.
Engineless Sailing Techniques
Engineless sailors have a multitude of skills and techniques at their disposal that help them safely manoeuvre and navigate a vessel on the water. Many of these practices involve traditional tools that are no longer commonplace on sailing boats, while others use conventional kit in traditional ways. Innovation and resourcefulness are necessary characteristics of a…
CAST-Off Summer 2024
Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities will return this summer, with sessions taking place on Saturdays from 27 July to 24 August in the walled garden at National Trust Penrose.
Margaret Salmon
In connection with her films currently on show at CAST, Margaret Salmon will run Ecological Affection: a workshop on embodied observational methods.
LAUREANA TOLEDO in conversation
Named with bitter irony, artist Laureana Toledo’s project Order and Progress explores the environmental devastation of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the area of Mexico in which Laureana spent her very early childhood years.
FOLD-OUT STORY BOOKS
Lucy Grant will lead a free workshop for families with children to make fold-out concertina books, draw picture journeys and map imaginary worlds.
Huw Wahl and Rose Ravetz
For this special evening screening Huw Wahl will be joined in conversation by his sister Rose Ravetz, who introduced him to sailing on her Falmouth quay punt Defiance. This experience produced the first shoots of Huw’s project Wind, Tide & Oar, which grew into a sibling collaboration of multiple proportions.
Margaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon’s close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.
Wind, Tide & Oar
Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.
SELECTED 14
Selected 14 is a collection of diverse, surprising and provocative new films by early career artists.
MARGARET SALMON
Margaret Salmon creates intense and beautiful filmic portraits that focus on the minutiae of the everyday. Her close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.
BOTANICAL SPECIMENS
For this Easter holiday family workshop CAST’s black box will be transformed into a fun and informative immersive environment for exploration and play.
Three Short Films
Films by artists Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood will be shown as looped screenings on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April. Each work focuses on a place in Cornwall or Devon and examines human relationships with nature and the effects of large scale industry.
Three Short Films
An evening presentation of recent moving image work by artists based in the South West – Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood.
Children's Films
A selection of children’s films will be shown in CAST’s black box screening space every day, Tuesday to Saturday, during the Easter holidays.
Saturday Art Club
CAST’s Saturday art sessions for eleven- to sixteen-year-olds are structured around engagement with a wide range of artists, many of whom have studios at or close links with CAST.
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) follows the story of the doomed conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro.