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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.

07/09/2026

Ghostnet: Open Studio with Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Residency Artist Sadia Pineda Hameed.

Sadia Pineda Hameed's work explores latent ways to speak about collective and intergenerational trauma through anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathy and secrets. Using 16mm film and hi8 video, sculptural installation, text and performance, her work imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communion springing from these strategies might look like - often through the ‘handheld’.

During her three month residency with Porthmeor Studios, Sadia has been interested in the working and living conditions of Filipino fishermen at Newlyn Harbour; experimenting with net-making, repair and anting-anting in the studio to consider what kinds of knowledge, solidarities and journeys - like lost or abandoned 'ghost nets' at sea - are still possible to recover.

Friday 25th and Saturday 26th September 2026
3pm to 6pm in Studio 9
Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, TR26 1NG
(visits outside of these times by appointment, please contact )

With thanks to the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust

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03/09/2026

Opening soon Trewarveneth Studios artist presents AWAKENING, a newly produced limited edition cassette tape recorded live on To Moor The Sun, alongside photographs from their Lavender Menace series which situates coded le***an identity via clothing and flowers as reclaimed resistance.

All are welcome to join for the opening preview at Newlyn Art Gallery on Friday 11 September from 4pm – 6pm. The exhibition will run until 31 October 2026.

Alice Mahoney will also present a distinct but complementary body of work.

Image: AWAKENING, SHARP. Courtesy the artist.

19/08/2026

Exhibition: On The Surface It Appears with Philip Medley and Mike Grifiths.

Both artists share a deep respect for great works of art, historical and contemporary, which directly informs their studio practice. This admiration serves as a visceral signpost, which aids the creative process and helps during the significant periods of time necessary for the search and discovery of new visual avenues and platforms. It allows singular elements and actions to combine in open ended enquiry.

The mechanics of making paintings through the manipulation of coloured pigment on a flat plane are abstract. This process to harmonise and create feelings via illusionistic and physical space is paradoxical but helps harness evocative moments for both artist and audience.

Borlase Smart Room, Porthmeor Studios until 30 August. Please note exhibition will close at 5pm on Wednesday 26 August.

17/08/2026

Event: Cryséde Revisited with Janet Axten and Teagan Pharoah-Green

Tuesday 15 September, 2.30pm

To celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Cryséde Silks factory in the Western Cellar on The Island (now St Nicholas Court), historian Janet Axten and clothing designer and textile researcher Teagan Pharoah-Green explore the fascinating story of this remarkable company and the beautiful garments it produced.

Drawing on first-hand accounts from former employees alongside new research, they reveal the people, craftsmanship and creativity behind one of Cornwall's most celebrated textile manufacturers.

Tickets: £8 + booking fee, available here: https://stives.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173674762
Date: Tuesday 15 September, 2.30-4pm
Location: Borlase Smart Room, Porthmeor Studios TR26 1NG.

01/08/2026

Studios short term tenant SHARP is currently exhibiting as part of THE DRAFTS in

Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive, an ambitious national touring exhibition responding to the work of artist and activist Tessa Boffin (1960–1993). The exhibition launched at Devonshire Collective on 18 July 2026 before travelling to Nottingham, Brighton and Portsmouth throughout 2026–27.

This project is grounded in a collective, intersectional approach to curatorial research, led by four emerging curators whose practices are rooted in q***r and feminist frameworks: Polly Wright (Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne), Jazz Swali (Backlit Gallery , Nottingham), Ricardo Reverón Blanco (Aspex Portsmouth , Portsmouth), and Danit Ariel (Photoworks).

This project has received support from Arts Council England Touring Projects grant strand and the Paul Mellon Centre, enabling an extensive programme of artist commissions, curatorial development and public engagement across all four venues.

Find out more here: https://www.devonshirecollective.co.uk/activity/tessa-boffin-where-we-touch-the-archive

Image: THE DRAFT SHARP

28/07/2026

Studios artist Richard Cook is exhibiting at Tregony Contemporary in & , a major curated exhibition centred on the remarkable paintings of Richard Cook.

Exhibition is on from the 1 to 29 August.

One of Britain's most respected contemporary painters, Richard Cook has developed a distinctive body of work over more than five decades. Rooted in direct observation yet transformed through , and , his paintings provide the starting point for an exhibition that brings together a carefully selected group of painters and sculptors whose work shares similar concerns.

FIND OUT MORE HERE: https://tregonycontemporary.com/exhibitions/promenade9/

25/07/2026

Studios artist Libita Sibungu solo exhibition ZED LOVE is currently on at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange until 31st October.

Sibungu works with early photographic techniques alongside drawing and sound to uncover the hidden layers, energies, and histories that connect to . Fragments of and archives are woven together through voice and , forming shifting, living systems that refuse colonial classification.

FIND OUT MORE HERE: https://newlynartgallery.co.uk/activities/libita-sibungu-zed-love/

At the Exchange until the 31 Oct 2026.

04/07/2026

Porthmeor Studios Melanie Stidolph’s work Still, held has been selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and is on display until 23 August.

RA Selectors: Eileen Cooper / Michael Craig-Martin / Ryan Gander / Oona Grimes / Katherine Jones / Goshka Macuga / Humphrey Ocean / Peter St John

The photograph Still, held was made with staff and patients of Camborne and Redruth Community Hospitals and participants at intoBodmin. The image is part of an installation commissioned by Hospital Rooms, a charity in their 10th Anniversary year that works with patients, hospitals, and artists to transform mental health settings.

Also, Melanie Stidolph and artist Rachael Coward were interviewed by Ceda Parkinson and Millie Burdett on their radio show Creative Field Notes, about their show Anchorhold at Alma Artspace. The recording of the episode on 13 June is available here: https://sites.autopod.xyz/show/13071

Anchorhold brought together photographic works on fabric and ceramic pieces in conversation, whilst transforming the gallery through architectural interventions. Installation photos, texts by the artists and a reflection on the exhibition by Art Historian, Curator and Artist Mentor Dr Ella S Mills of Cassinelli Mills, can be found on Melanie's website here: https://melaniestidolph.com/work/exhibition-anchorhold-alma/

29/06/2026

studios artist Kate Walters is curating an exhibition at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens until the 25 July . Holy Animals Plants is the culmination of over a year's work with 10 artists. The theme has been the inherent and of animals and plants.

There will be a panel discussion on the 11 July at 5pm on themes relating to the massive loss of species and habitats and how we as artists can respond to this. Find out more here: https://gallery.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/holy-animals-sacred-plants/

Also, Walters recently attended and presented at the University of Worcester to speak at the Landcapes Symposium on the Material Practice Panel. Find out more here: https://therapeuticlandscapes.wordpress.com/

Lastly, Walters has a piece of writing in the forthcoming Aspier magazine. Find out more here: https://www.aspiermagazine.co.uk/

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/

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