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ALMA is a space for creativity, community and conversation. ALMA exists to promote and share contemporary art.

We believe that art is for everyone, and we want to share more of the things we are inspired by with our community. Based in Newquay, Cornwall, we deliver a range of high quality, accessible, engaging and inclusive creative events and public art projects, working with professional artists, across all disciplines. ALMA is a space for people to join together and interact with art in a positive way t

hat facilitates : opportunities for learning, social interaction, mental wellbeing, diversity and enjoyment.

04/09/2026

Damp Stories - art and conversation workshop
Saturday 26 Sept, 2-4pm
ALMA Artspace
FREE (booking essential)

Join Artist, Plumber and Retrofit Consultant Sovay Berriman Sovay Berriman for a unique and insightful art workshop hosted by ALMA Artspace.

The workshop is designed to allow a gentle and creative opportunity to explore the theme of living with damp. We will make artworks using collage, paint, and drawing materials, and share conversation around our experiences.

Touching upon themes such as precarious housing, environmental impacts upon housing stock, and financial and climate-crisis factors, this event is primarily aimed at adults, but open to everyone.

This is the first in a series of workshops that are part of Sovay Berriman’s research into living with damp. This research is ongoing and informs Sovay’s current studio practice, as well as their research around the national transition to energy efficiency and low-carbon heating.

It is vital that we all are able to contribute to the often confusing conversations about how we heat our homes, how we maintain good indoor air quality, and how we increase our energy efficiency.

There will be no audio recording. Photographs will be taken, faces will be avoided.

This is a free event with limited spaces. If after booking you find you can no longer attend, please let us know so that someone else may take your place.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Also supported by Alma Artspace CIC.

Photo credits: Rag Porth (Liwyow a Gernow), 2024 (detail), Sovay Berriman; Izzy Eastick courtesy of Hospital Rooms, 2023.

Booking via link in bio

01/09/2026

We’re having a clear out!

Come along to the ALMA end of summer YARD SALE and get yourself something new for the beginning of term!

Sunday 6 Sept, 10am - 3pm

Vintage, pre-loved, homeware, kids clothes, books, music and lots more….

All welcome! Spread the word ✌️

25/08/2026

Summer Pop-up / What’s On - part 2!

For the last few weeks of summer, ALMA is being used by local creatives and community groups as a pop-up gallery and project space.

Please drop by if you’re in the area and follow each pop-up for more info on events and opening times.

Photo by Daz

21 - 28 Aug - ANT MAG .mag and Boardshortboys - Surfwear - Boardshorts pop-up. Up-cycled clothes, fashion mags and workshops! Closing event on Thurs, 4-9pm

29 Aug - She Blooms. A creative one day pop-up by five local female artists and friends. Open 12-8pm

7 - 13 Sept - Silly Season / a collection of work created by Jenna Grassick and Danielle Smith of Tor Pottery Works inspired by the peak season chaos of summer in Cornwall.

14 - 20 Sept - Tidal Collective tidalcollective_nqy open call group exhibition and creative workshops.

31/07/2026

SUMMER POP-UPS AT ALMA 🌞

Over the summer weeks, we hand over the gallery to local creatives and community groups for use as a pop-up exhibition and project space.

It’s a pleasure to see the variety of artists and makers and we’re very excited to see what they will all do with the space!

Please drop by if you’re in the area over the summer holidays, there is LOTS to see (and do, and make and buy!)

28 July - 3 Aug - NINA BROOKE / paintings and prints capturing the world from an aerial perspective, 10am - 4pm daily

9 - 16 Aug - Phil Strugnell Signs of Joy / paint, print and sculpture + workshops and events, daily 10am - 4pm + 6pm - 8pm

18 Aug - Storyfest Newquay / Illustration workshop for young adults (13-16) led by Rebecca Cobb - booking via Clemo Books Newquay

Part 2 coming soon 🌞

24/07/2026

Sea, Swallow Me

Opening today at 3pm - 5pm

A collaborative project by six art and photography students from Newquay - AKA The Cornish Pixies 🧚🏻

Paintings, print, drawings and installation.

Come see the show!

23/07/2026

The ‘Sea, Swallow Me’ exhibition is taking shape…

Thinking about ‘Cornwall’s Creative Heroes’, the exhibition is influenced by local artists, writers and makers who have been inspired by the landscape, sea and nature.

Working with Matt from TONER, the work experience group (a new collective who have called themselves ‘Cornish Pixies’) have created, curated and installed the exhibition.

Come and see what the artists and curators have been making at their exhibition opening on Friday 24th July, 3pm - 5pm.

It’s such a pleasure to have these inspiring young creatives in the space. Thank you for the opportunity Screen Cornwall and Kernow Youth Collective.

📷 Ingrid Pop

22/07/2026

This week at ALMA!

The Cornish Pixies take-over…

Six A’level art and photography students from Newquay Tretherras and Treviglas are using the space as their immersive pop up gallery.

Working with Matt Martin from Toner and Ingrid and Lucy from ALMA, the group will plan, make, curate, promote and install a flash exhibition which will take over the space.

You’re all invited to come and see the finished results!

‘Sea Swallow Me’ opens on Friday 24 July, 3pm - 5pm - all welcome

The project is part of a wider Work Experience Week programme organised by Screen Cornwall and Kernow Youth Collective.

🧚🏻

16/07/2026

Final week of Strange Dreams ✨✨✨✨

ALMA is open today and tomorrow (Friday)
10am - 3pm.

Works are available, drop us a line for more info.

📷 Ingrid Pop

04/07/2026

A call-out for Strange Dreams contributors 🐚

Chloe Bonfield Bonfield wants to hear your dreams, thoughts, poems and words about your connection to the Cornish landscape.

A note from the artist ~~

Send me your Voice Notes as part of Strange Dreams

I am putting out an open call to participate in a work I am making for 2026. Strange Dreams is part of a series of projects specific to location, exploring material enquiries and site specific responses that are gently subversive - through painting, sculpture and sound.

I am inviting participants to send me their voice notes, speaking about their dreams about land and time outside. This can be about a personal connection, a hope for the future, a lost land, a displaced feeling, a feeling of belonging, love or pure fantasy.
Story, poem, ramble, sound Scape/field recording.

I am keeping this broad and direct, as it is truly an experiment. To see what bubbles up.

Please be respectful that I will be listening to all of your voice notes. Also please be aware that your voices may be layered and made into sound works - and permission for me to do so will be part of taking part.

I won’t be making commercial work from the sounds, but they will be potentially available in gallery shows this year.

Email [email protected] to participate.

I will reply with all the details and information ~~

Strange Dreams is now showing at ALMA until 18 July (open Wed - Fri, 10am - 3pm or by appointment)

Photos by Ingrid Pop installation details from Strange Dreams at ALMA Artspace

26/06/2026

Now showing : STRANGE DREAMS
An exhibition by Chloe Bonfield
Chloe Bonfield

ALMA is open Weds-Fri 10am - 3pm
or by appointment

📷 Ingrid Pop

Address

5 Wesley Yard
Newquay
TR71LB

Website

https://www.alma-artspace.com/

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