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Porthmeor Studios, Anchor Studio, and Trewarveneth Studios are managed by the BSJW Trust. There are 22 artists studios in Porthmeor Studios in St.

For info on how to rent a studio, events & for more info on these historic artist spaces visit: www.bsjwtrust.co.uk Ives plus Anchor and Trewarveneth Studios in Newlyn managed by the charity the Borlase Smart John Wells Trust www.bsjwtrust.co.uk, on Twitter, porthmeorstudios on Instagram.

11/06/2026

studios artist Kate Walters is curating an exhibition at next month, running from the 12 June - 25 July . Holy Animals Sacred Plants is the culmination of over a year's work with 10 artists. The theme has been the inherent and of animals and plants.

Find out more here: https://gallery.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/holy-animals-sacred-plants/

On 12 and 13 June Walters will be going to the University of University of Worcester to speak at the Therapeutic Landcapes on the Material Practice Panel. Walters will be speaking about ‘the unfurling of dreams’, in which they will reference their own , their relationship to their painting, and the influence of the writing and thinking of David Hinton, especially in relation to Chinese wilderness poetry.

Find out more here: https://therapeuticlandscapes.wordpress.com/

Lastly, Walters will be speaking at The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association conference at Falmouth University on June 17th - 19th about their own writing-dreaming-drawing.

Find out more here: https://womenswritingassociation.com/2026/01/02/call-for-papers-the-inaugural-international-womens-writing-association-conference/

09/06/2026

Studios artist Ro Robertson also has work in the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin exhibition Creating Space: The Constructivist Marlow Moss which includes their first outdoor sculpture in Europe, titled The Swimmer.

Find out more here: https://georg-kolbe-museum.de/en/programm/ausstellungen/raeume-schaffen-die-konstruktivistin-marlow-moss/

Robertson has contributed a text in a catalogue titled The Bird and the Wind, written on a walk to Lamorna Cove. You can read it here: https://shop.hirmerverlag.de/uk/Raeume-schaffen.-Die-Konstruktivistin-Marlow-Moss/202605010979

Lastly, Robertson, along with Porthmeor studios artist Simon Bayliss, will be showing work in Ten Good Years, an exhibition at The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge. Ten Good Years celebrates the gallery’s anniversary by paying homage to its inaugural exhibition Generation Painting 1955–65: British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness. It re-shows selected works from this collection by significant mid-twentieth-century artists and introduces new works produced over the past ten years by artists with connections to West Penwith, Cornwall.

Find out more: https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/creative-arts/heong-gallery/ten-good-years

Image 1: The Swimmer, 2026

100 (h) x 120 (w) x 360 (l) cm

Steel, sea water, marine paint and oil paint

Image credit: SHARP

06/06/2026

Studios artist Melanie Stidolph exhibited work in Family Crinkles. This group exhibition, curated by Olivia Reynolds, featured artists from and at the incredible Lobe Block in Berlin in May.

Find out more here: https://melaniestidolph.com/work/exhibition-family-crinkles-lobe-block-part-2/

Currently, Stidolph, alongside artist Rachael Coward are exhibiting in Anchorhold at Alma art space. It brings together existing works and new pieces in conversation. On until 16 June.

Find out more here: https://www.alma-artspace.com/events/anchorhold

Dark Shining Wolf is a new venture from Stidolph’s alter ego – the title comes from the meaning of their given names.Three designs – each featuring a still from 16mm films shot around the rocks, pools and quarries of Cornwall - form part of an ongoing desire to regain a connection with after falling out with it. For humans and dogs (and any animals in-between), for heads and throats (particularly fine on the long necked whippet).

Find out more here: https://melaniestidolph.com/shop/

Thank you to Creative Kernow Associates X Make South West – who have selected the pieces for the Make Southwest store later this year.

Find out more here: https://makesouthwest.shop/

Image 1: Family Crinkles

Image 2: ALMA artspace

Photo credit: Alice Mahoney

Image 3: Dark Shining Wolf

01/06/2026

Abigail Reynolds is exhibiting in this year's Drawing Biennial, showing a new work, titled Leftover (The White Tower); a void left in a book page excavated for use in a Universal Now collage. It is taken from the book London in Colour, 1961 pub. Batsford Ltd, and used in Reynolds 2016 work The Universal Now: The White Tower 1961 | 1977. In Leftover, the lost part of the page is the entire focus - the shape of the hole determined by the image of the Tower of London pictured on the reverse of the page.

Find out more here: https://biennial.drawingroom.org.uk/drawing/28209

The exhibition is open until 23 June at The Drawing Room in London, with the online auction opening 12pm, 9 June. Join here: https://biennial.drawingroom.org.uk/home

16/05/2026

Q***r Periphery. Q***r Artistic Life Outside the Cities.

02. June 2026, at 19:00

This event brings together experts who share their knowledge of q***r art histories outside major cities, focusing on rural areas as productive spaces for artistic practice. The starting point is Studios artist RoRobertson, who lives and works in Cornwall, and the constructivist Marlow Moss, who was active in the same region until her death in 1958.

Find out more here: https://georg-kolbe-museum.de/en/

With Ro Robertson (artist), Dr Lucy Howarth (University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury), Dr Anke Kempkes (independent curator and art historian), Katy Norris (Tate St Ives)

Hosted by Dr Elisa Tamaschke (Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin)

Photo: SHARP: Ro Robertson with Freeform I (Lamorna), 2026

13/05/2026

Abigail Reynolds is showing two collage works depicting The Minack Theatre from her ongoing series The Universal Now in Curtain Up! at The Lowry in Salford. The exhibition opens from 18 April until 21 June, and explores how visual artists have sought to capture the shared anticipation, heightened emotions, and communal energy of being in an .

Find out more here: https://minack.com/

Image: The Universal Now: Minack 1982 | 2003, 2024

09/05/2026

Studios artist Andy harper included in a group show in London at James Freeman Gallery. Origins of the Species is on until the 16 May.

Find out more: https://www.jamesfreemangallery.com/exhibitions/origins-of-the-species/

Harper also has a solo show, The Vaults of , opening at Bounded Space in the 798 art district - Beijing. Opens from the 25 April.

Image 2: 170 by 130cm oil on linen. ‘Unseen Architactures’

04/05/2026

Studios short-term let artist’s SHARP and Studios artist Sarah Ball have work in the exhibition Mirrors: Reflecting on at Falmouth Art Gallery. Open from the 16 May to 26 September 2026. This exhibition explores how artists use self-expression to question roles, challenge norms and reveal the shifting nature of the self. Featuring Sarah Ball, Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun, Gluck, Maggi Hambling, Diane Ibbotson, Kirsty Latoya, Marco Livingstone, Ken Nwadiogbu, Grayson Perry, SHARP, Cindy Sherman, Henry Scott Tuke and others.

Find out more here: https://www.falmouthtowncouncil.co.uk/events/mirrors-reflecting-on-identity

Image: MY BUTCH Video1999, SHARP

SHARP is also part of the group exhibition Cartographies of Care: An exhibition of / / . Showing at Land and Gallery at Southcombe Barn from the 24 May to the 7 June.

Find out more here: https://southcombebarn.com/cartographies-of-care/

02/05/2026

Studios artist Kate Walters will be away on a self-funded residency in Assisi and Rome for a fortnight. Walters will be reflecting on the early Renaissance frescoes and the places St Francis and St Clare lived and worked in. Walters will be drawing and writing, hopefully towards a third book with Guillemot Press.

Walters also has some writing and watercolours included in Aspier, to be published soon.

Lastly, Walters will be giving a talk on her work at Higher Spargo School of Art (near Falmouth) on May 14, 7 - 9 pm. Booking is through the School website here; https://www.higherspargoartschool.org/courses-events/p/dreaming-art-and-the-shamanic-imagination-an-exploration-with-artist-kate-walters

28/04/2026

studios artist Ilker Cinarel has been working with Path- Miras Art Residency at Kas - Turkey.

, , and came together on the same path… As part of the PATH/MİRAS project, artists from the UK and Türkiye came together on the Lycian Way in Kaş.

Uk participant artists: Ilker Cinarel, Lucy Stein, Huma Mulji, Shelley Burdett, Ali Pretty and Ozlem Hammond. Turkish participant artist: Ismet Degirmenci, Gulay Eroglu, Nazife Aras, Demet Orbay, Deger Esirkus, Funda Karatop.

Throughout this journey, they walked, created, shared, and reinterpreted a heritage shaped over thousands of years through art.

This project is not only about art, but also a call to protect and carry cultural heritage into the future. After the project, work were exhibited from 17 to 24 of April at the Kas Art House in Turkey.

Find out more here: https://www.instagram.com/kas_sanatevi/

Project led by Dr. Ozlem Hammond and supported by Kas Art House - Kas Council and Path Art.

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