Tag: exhibition

I Dream – Girl Guiding in Cornwall – an exhibition at Trelissick by Ilene Sterns

August 5, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.
I dream - Trelissick exhibition

Cornwall, like so many rural areas, thrives and survives because of its close-knit communities which provide fund raising, educating and much needed support in a county where poverty and isolation often lurks behind the sunsets and sandy beaches. Institutions like the Women’s Institute, the Lions Club, Rotary Club and the Girl Guides are long established […]

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Falmouth Art Gallery: Andrew Lanyon and Nature’s Laboratory

January 30, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.
andrew lanyon

Since I first came across Andrew Lanyon’s book A Fairy Find many years ago I have been fascinated by his work. He challenges me to see the world in a different way, a weird and wonderful, and often slightly perplexing, way. His latest exhibition which opened last weekend at Falmouth Art Gallery is called Nature’s […]

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The Gibson Dynasty – Pioneers of Photography

January 2, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

It is romantic to think of a photograph as a snapshot of a world that would otherwise be lost to us. However the Gibson family’s enormous collection of photographs of Cornwall is so much more than a romanticised version of the past. They document the everyday. Capture the world of working-class Cornish people. Set against […]

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