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We're happy to hear that Viv Albright's mixedmedia

We're happy to hear that Viv Albright's mixedmedia painting 'Palimpsest' was selected for the Tate Modern in their 'Inside Job' Biennale Staff Exhibition. The selection this year was drawn from all 4 Tates open to all staff working there, in my case as a volunteer.
You can visit Viv's site here

www.vivallbright.com where the image is listed under the 'Conflict series' and includes their Instagram & FB accounts.

#vivalbright #tategalleryopen #contemporaryartcornwall #abstractfigures #contemporaryart

Here's the last installment of our interview with

Here's the last installment of our interview with NSA artist Delpha Hudson. Thanks to Delpha for sharing with us her practice.

Do you set yourself goals as part of your practice?

I regularly write about my work and why I do it. Sometimes this takes the form of an artist’s statement. It helps me focus on what I feel is really important to me now, and what I am trying to communicate to others.

What’s the best piece of advice you have to give other artists?

I’m really passionate about what I do but when I run out of steam I have really good artist friends to talk to. It’s so important to have support and to be supportive. Art is not a competition. The commercial art world puts ridiculous pressure on artists now. ‘Business’ for me is making a cultural contribution; creating things that affect people, maybe make them feel differently about their world.

What is your most inspirational place?

I am completely inspired by local landscapes in Penwith, as we all are, they inspire me on a deeply personal level as well as provoking performances and films but above all my studio is the place where inspiration comes. I read widely and am always inspired by slogging through a book as well as working through some drawing or painting that I’m finding challenging. Working through and thinking through things is the most inspiring ‘place’.

What three words would you say sums up your recent work?

Mothers, landscape, care

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Here's the second of three in our series interview

Here's the second of three in our series interviewing NSA artist Delpha Hudson. Last one tomorrow.

What themes do you often return to in your work?

Women, mental health, motherhood, care, empathy and local landscapes. I really happy that I’ve recently been able to reconcile my love for landscape and nature with my ‘mother’ project by threading ecofeminism into this mix.

What is your favourite medium?

Hard to say. I’ve worked with performance, film, sculpture, installation, sound, assemblage, clay, paint, textiles and text based works. It’s really about the ideas and not about ‘the medium as the message’, though for many years I was obsessed with dripping bitumen paint. Its dark, its messy but you can form tactile images or writing that performatively flows from a stick. However, more recently I’ve developed a more sustainable painting technique with small amounts of acrylic straight onto canvas. There is something tapestry-like about these paintings with their colourful, medievalesque vernacular. I like the idea they have the potential to appeal to and communicate with wider audiences.

#delphahudson #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #cornishartists #textileart #installationart

Today we're interviewing NSA member Delpha Hudson

Today we're interviewing NSA member Delpha Hudson about her work. More from this interview tomorrow!

How did you start making art Delpha?

We all start young, drawing the world around us, mimetically echoing what we see and using drawing to understand ourselves, our experiences, and others. I’ve always using drawing as well as writing to understand the world around me – and to tell stories. At art college in the 90s the personal became political as I realised my experiences of inequality as a woman and mother were not unique. It felt imperative to try to fill the absence of representation (or ‘void’) of motherhood by making art work that used the immediacy of performance and film. I wanted to tell stories to make women’s lives visible, to make them count.

How do you do what you do?

How do you do what you do?

With sweat and tears – and a lot of passion. Over the years it has been a challenge to curate projects and create work with 4 children, 4 paid part-time jobs and… the rest! It should be easier now my children are grown and have children of their own but I’m not sitting pretty on any kind of pension or income so I still juggle many things and refuse to be stymied or bound by commercial necessity. I still work with performance and film (collaboration with #helensargeantartist #FeralMothers) and create installations. What’s changed is I now feel comfortable about the fact I also paint and always have done. Painting is very much at the core of everything for me.

Image 1. Delpha working on Roses and other phantoms 2022
Image 2. Feral Mothers collaboration with Helen Sargeant performance film at Men-an-Tol 2023 .

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Here's the second part of our interview with new N

Here's the second part of our interview with new NSA member, Jackie Chettur.

What is your favourite medium?

Whilst I use diverse media, I think photography is my favourite medium and I like playing around with its possibilities.

What do you think the role of an artist is in our culture?

I’ve posed this as a question to myself and I feel comfortable and useful in the following different spaces. I’m proud of some participatory projects that I developed, these were educational but with powerful and beautiful outcomes. I also enjoy making work that is sometimes public, very colourful and enjoyable like my stereoscopic projects. Then through my reading projects and the novels I choose, I’m working with these serious and enduring literary themes, for example I’m currently re-reading George Orwell’s 1984, to condense the novel to only the instances of memory, which highlights how the protagonist is digging around trying to find the truth through his and others’ memories. That’s a meandering answer so here’s another attempt - I went to a talk connected to an exhibition about climate change recently. Someone who was a bit antagonistic towards the artists and their art works, questioned whether artists could make any useful contribution to the climate crisis - someone responded brilliantly, that in this case the scientists are the scientists and the artists are the storytellers.

Do you listen to music when you work?

I often listen to audiobooks, the same very long ones over and over again, then radio 4; then music favourites might be; The Shangri-Lars, Asian Dub Foundation or Anna Meredith especially the album Fibs.

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#cornishartistsandmakers #cornishart #artincornwall #artphotography #contemporaryart

By way of introduction, we interviewed new NSA mem

By way of introduction, we interviewed new NSA member, Jackie Chettur. Paet two tomorrow.

How did you start making art Jackie?
I always made loads of things as a child and a young adult and eventually in my late twenties I did a part time foundation and then a ceramics degree at Camberwell. Prior to this I’d been working as a ceramic restorer and so studying ceramics seemed a natural progression. Ceramics was a good foundation for all that I do now which is often quite process heavy.

How do you do what you do?

Ideas permeate for a long time, years sometimes. When eventually an idea has bubbled to the surface, I bounce it back and forth before deciding on how to create an artwork. Then I work practically towards that goal. That goes for theatrical photographic works like my stereoscopic projects where I make lots of intricate props and backdrops and then photograph these tableaux. And for book projects where I’ve created a rule to isolate single themes from classic novels and then working with print and publishing to create facsimiles of the original. Whilst these end goals are laid out, the process of actually making the work, is of course often surprising and keeps me interested.

What themes do you often return to in your work?

I realised recently that a repeating but unconscious theme in my work describes people on the move and this reflects my families story and my own.

What is your favourite medium?

Whilst I use diverse media, I think photography is my favourite medium and I like playing around with its possibilities.

#cornishart
#cornishartistsandmakers #cornishart #artincornwall #artphotography #contemporaryart

'Where the Line Breaks' is the title of our curren

'Where the Line Breaks' is the title of our current show at Tremenheere Gallery, running until 21st April. Poet Katrina Naomi came up with the title as a part of her role in curating the show. It's an inspiring and open theme, refering initially to structural line breaks in poetry. Broken, breaking lost-and-found lines are integral to the rythmns, processes and forms of visual and three-dimensional art; seen live in different ways in the pieces included in the show.

Katrina will be giving a talk and reading a poem that she has written about the show on 14th April starting at 2.20pm. In preparation for her talk, we asked her a few questions about her work. This is the last in our series of three running up to Katrina's talk on Sunday. The sun seems to be shining too!

What's your desert island top tune (or 3)?

Desert Island top tune? That's going to change every day but off the top of my head, I love dancing so I'd want to have some Sister Sledge, probably 'He's the Greatest Dancer' (Tim will think that's about him! ha ha). I also love Led Zeppelin and would want the live version of No Quarter, can I have most of Kate Bush's The Kick Inside LP too? And everything by John Coltrane? I could go on...

#portrait #oilpainting #pencilart #pencildrawing #artofdrawing #drawing #graphitedrawing #drawings_academy #contemporarydrawing #artsfeatures #contemporarydrawings #graphitepencils #pencildraw #pencilportrait #fineartdrawing #drawingonpaper #worksonpaper #tremenheeregallery
#cornishartist
#cornishart
#sculpture
#poetryandvisualart
#contemporaryart
#eventsincornwall #cornishcontemporaryart #contemporarylandscape #contemporarysculpture #contemporarymixedmedia

'Where the Line Breaks' is the title of our curren

'Where the Line Breaks' is the title of our current show at Tremenheere Gallery, running until 21st April. Poet Katrina Naomi came up with the title as a part of her role in curating the show. It's an inspiring and open theme, refering initially to structural line breaks in poetry. Broken, breaking lost-and-found lines are integral to the rythmns, processes and forms of visual and three-dimensional art; seen live in different ways in the pieces included in the show.

Katrina will be giving a talk and reading a poem that she has written about the show on 14th April starting at 2.20pm. In preparation for her talk, we asked her a few questions about her work.

How do you think poetry and visual art connect?

There's so many connections between visual art and poetry for me. Whether we're a poet or an artist, we're both trying to distil something - whether that's an emotion or a thought - and capture it in some way, or even just use it as a starting point and see where it takes us.

#portrait #oilpainting #pencilart #pencildrawing #artofdrawing #drawing #graphitedrawing #drawings_academy #contemporarydrawing #artsfeatures #contemporarydrawings #graphitepencils #pencildraw #pencilportrait #fineartdrawing #drawingonpaper #worksonpaper #tremenheeregallery
#cornishartist
#cornishart
#sculpture
#poetryandvisualart
#contemporaryart
#eventsincornwall #cornishcontemporaryart #contemporarylandscape #contemporarysculpture #contemporarymixedmedia

'Where the Line Breaks is the title of our current

'Where the Line Breaks is the title of our current show at Tremenheere Gallery, running until 21st April. Poet Katrina Naomi came up with the title as a part of her role in curating the show. It's an inspiring and open theme, refering initially to structural line breaks in poetry. Broken, breaking lost-and-found lines are integral to the rythmns, processes and forms of visual and three-dimensional art; seen live in different ways in the pieces included in the show.

Katrina will be giving a talk and reading a poem that she has written about the show on
14th April starting at 2.20pm. In preparation for her talk, we asked her a few questions about her work, posting the rest of interview over the next couple of days.

How did you begin to write poetry Katrina?

I began to write poetry by accident. I'd always hated poetry at school, I found it elitist and dull. I began writing short stories, which were pretty rubbish. I went on a weekend course and we were asked to write something 'from the heart', the tutor said I'd written a poem. I said I couldn't have done, because I hated poetry but it was set out like a poem. She suggested I went to night school and to begin reading poetry, which I did.

What poets have influenced your work?

So many poets have influenced me and continue to do so. Probably the poet who has had the greatest influence is the US poet Sharon Olds. When I read her first collection, Satan Says, I knew I wanted to write poetry. I was lucky enough to go to the States and meet her some years ago. They always say don't meet your heroes. But Sharon Olds breaks that rule. She was amazing. Took me to the pictures after I'd interviewed her. We had a beer and chips together.

More tomorrow.
#portrait #oilpainting #pencilart #pencildrawing #artofdrawing #drawing #graphitedrawing #drawings_academy #contemporarydrawing #artsfeatures #contemporarydrawings #graphitepencils #pencildraw #pencilportrait #fineartdrawing #drawingonpaper #worksonpaper #tremenheeregallery
#cornishartist
#cornishart
#sculpture
#poetryandvisualart
#contemporaryart
#eventsincornwall #cornishcontemporaryart #contemporarylandscape #contemporarysculpture #contemporarymixedmedia

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