Robert Dingle, Manager, National Network Programme, Contemporary Art Society

Trip: Cultural Ecology of Cornwall

6-7 October 2012

Attendees

Christine Takengny, Manager, Acquisitions and Special Projects, Contemporary Art Society

Alison Cooper, Acting Keeper of Art, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery

Ioannis Ioannou, Audience Development Curator, New Art Gallery Walsall

Hannah Anderson, Exhibition Assistant, New Art Gallery Walsall

Tom Freshwater, Contemporary Arts Programme Manager, National Trust

Laura Martin, Visitor Experience Consultant for Cornwall, National Trust

Felicity Barber, Collections Engagement Officer Cornwall and Buckland Abbey, National Trust

Marilyn Dunn, Conservator, South West Region, National Trust

Bryony Dawes, Partnership Projects Curator, National Museum Wales

Outi Remes, Head of Exhibitions, South Hill Park

Jane Morrow, Temporary Assistant Curator, University of Warwick

Patrick Lowry, Artist and Lecturer

Thursday 6th October 2011

13.00 Please aim to arrive at Redruth train station by 1pm. A minibus will wait to collect us from outside the station (Vospers written on the side).

13.15 Registration, tea, coffee and light lunch at Krowji (West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ)

Meet Sarah Black, Director, ProjectBase, Julie Seyler, Culture Programme Manager, Creative Services, Cornwall Council and Jane Sutherland, Director, Creative Skills at Krowji. We will start with a Pecha Kucha style introduction session where each attendee has 2 minutes to introduce themselves and their reason for coming on the trip. Sarah Black, Julie Seyler and Jane Sutherland will then give introductions to their work within the region and the wider context of art development in Cornwall

14.30 Drive to Falmouth (9.7 miles, approximately 25 minutes)

15.00 Visit Falmouth University - meet with Dr Virginia Button, Head of the Department of Art, University College Falmouth. Virginia Button will discuss the MA Curatorial Practice, Art at UCF, and their role within the region

16.00 Check in and leave luggage at Hotels

18.00 Meet at University College Falmouth for Tate Lecture: Michael Craig-Martin (Woodlane Lecture Theatre, Woodlane Campus, TR11 4RH). British conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin discusses his work and his re-make of an important early work to coincide with The Indiscipline of Painting at Tate St Ives. We have booked everyone tickets for this event.

19.45 Supper social evening at The Gylly Beach Café (Cliff Road, Falmouth, TR11 4PA) organised in partnership with Turning Point South West

This simple social evening gives artists and curators in the region the opportunity to meet with members of Turning Point South West, make new connections and potential partnerships. Turning Point South West is a network of organisations and practitioners within the visual art sector. Its overarching aim is 'To raise the level of critical dialogue and engagement across the region in order to support a dynamic and sustainable visual arts sector, especially within the current economic climate'. Its objectives are Supporting and developing excellence in artists and arts organisation; Empowering the sector with greater skills and knowledge; Providing greater opportunities for networking, partnership working and collaborative projects, including engagement with wider networks nationally and internationally; Developing better understanding of audiences and extending reach; Improving economic stability and to provide leadership and advocacy.

Stay in Falmouth

Friday 7th October 2011

09.45 Meet at Falmouth Art Gallery for a tour of the current exhibition Falmouth Frameworks and the stores of the collection. Tour led by Director, Louisa Connell. Tea and biscuits on arrival

Falmouth Art Gallery is home to one of the most important art collections in Cornwall featuring work by old masters, British Impressionists and contemporary painters and printmakers. The gallery has benefited from purchases made through grant funding from organizations such as The Art Fund, The Heritage Lottery Fund, MLA/V & A Purchase Grant Fund and the Nerys Johnson Contemporary Art Fund.

Drive Penzance (27.1 miles, approximately 45 minutes)

11.15 Visit The Exchange and CAZ (Cornwall Autonomous Zone)

The Exchange is a major contemporary art space with a programme dedicated to featuring national and international artists, alongside those practicing in the local area. Meet with Cat Gibbard, EducationOfficer to an introduction to The Exchange. Meet with Laura Smith and Maria Christoforidou curators of the current exhibition Decalcomania who will give us a guided tour of the show

Meet with Andrew Whall, Activator, Cornwall Autonomous Zone. Catalysed in part by those involved in the 'Manifesta' dialogues CAZ focuses around supporting continuing professional development, international dialogue and the growth of regional, national and international artist’s networks and new audiences

12.15 Drive to Newlyn Art Centre

12.25 Meet Blair Todd, Exhibition Curator / Deputy Director, Newlyn Art Centre for a behind the scenes tour of the forthcoming exhibition by John Armleder

13.00 Drive to St Just (approximately 20 minutes)

13.15 Visit Assembly

Initiated by artists Abigail Reynolds and Andy Harper in 2006, Assembly is an artist run residency space in St.Just, just 18 miles from St Ives. Assembly hosts talks and discussions involving artists and curators from the local area and across the UK. Tea and coffee provided

13.30 Lunch at Assembly

14.30 Drive to Ged Quinn’s studio (approximately 20 minutes)

14.50 Studio visit with Ged Quinn

Ged Quinn makes paintings that revisit the tradition of European painting. His seductive canvases, which seem so recognisable, slowly reveal an extravagant mix of European art history and contemporary imagery. By superimposing contemporary references onto grand backdrops of European painting Quinn develops his own environments and mythologies

16.00 Drive to St.Ives (approximately 20 minutes)

16.45. Tour of Porthmeor Studios with Miguel Amado

17.00 Introduction to Tate St Ives by Martin Clark, Artistic Director. Martin Clarke will then give us a preview of the opening exhibition and discuss the Tate St Ives Artist Residency programme, which he initiated in April 2003 and provides artists with a studio, residency fee, materials costs and curatorial support to assist the development of their professional practice.

18.00 Attend the private view opening at Tate St Ives

Event ends

Suggested Hotels:

The Falmouth Townhouse

3 Grove Place

Falmouth

Cornwall

TR11 4AL

01326 312 009

http://www.falmouthtownhouse.co.uk/

The Greenbank

Harbourside

Falmouth

Cornwall

TR11 2SR

01326 312440

http://www.greenbank-hotel.co.uk/

The Beach House

1 Boscawen Road

Falmouth

Cornwall

TR11 4EL

01326 210407

http://www.beachhousefalmouth.co.uk/

Information on Visits:

Assembly,

http://www.abigailreynolds.com/assembly/assembindex.html

West Place, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7JB

Abigail Reynolds and Andy Harper, Co-directors

Assembly is a residency programme that was founded in the Summer of 2006 by Abigail Reynolds and Andy Harper. Based in an old Wesleyan chapel in St. Just, Cornwall the space will provide studio space and accommodation for 5/6 artists. The residencies and events will be trans-disciplinary and draw knowledge from the arts and sciences.

CAZ (Cornwall Autonomous Zone)

http://www.caz.artdeptdesign.com/

Princes Street, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2NL

Catalysed in part by those involved in the 'Manifesta' dialogues CAZ focuses around supporting continuing professional development, international dialogue and the growth of regional, national and international artist’s networks and new audiences. The manifesta dialogues highlighted the need for much closer working relationships between the artist led initiatives and the institutions or organisations within Cornwall in order to access the resources required to address the lack of the developed infrastructure required to support the envisioned expansion of the visual arts and their contribution to the economy and culture of Cornwall. CAZ has been conceived in response to these concerns and to the realisation that the activators within Cornwall are best placed to move quickly, to respond and to utilise the newly established channels of communication and the national and international focus on Cornwall.

Creative Services, Cornwall Council

www.cornwall.gov.uk

West Park, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3AJ

Julie Seyler, Culture Programme Manager

Creative Services was formed in late 2006 in response to the increasing recognition of Cornwall’s flourishing creative industries sector. It is an organisation which has combined the County Council’s former Arts Office and Creative Kernow, an independent creative industries development agency. The team is core-funded by Cornwall Council and the staff work within the Council’s staffing structure.

Creative Skills,

http://www.creativeskills.org.uk/

West Park, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3AJ

Jane Sutherland, Director

Creative Skills is the professional development organisation for all creative industries practitioners in Cornwall. It provides support, advice and offers a varied programme of courses for those in the creative industries.

Falmouth Art Gallery

http://www.falmouthartgallery.com/

Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2RT

Krowji

http://www.krowji.co.uk/

West Park, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3AJ

Krowji is Cornwall’s biggest creative sector cluster, providing studios, workspaces, offices, the Melting Pot Cafe, meeting rooms and other facilities for a wide range of creative businesses at the Old Grammar School buildings in Redruth.

Newlyn Art Gallery

http://www.newlynartgallery.co.uk

New Road, Newlyn, Cornwall, TR18 5PZ

Blair Todd, Exhibitions Curator/ Deputy Director

Newlyn Art Gallery is an organisation which is committed to developing regionally significant contemporary art projects, which over the past twenty years has produced nationally significant programmes of exhibitions and education projects. The gallery was expanded and reopened in 2007, with a new art space The Exchange, a major new contemporary art space which allows audiences to see works on a scale never before accessible in the region.

ProjectBase

http://www.projectbase.org.uk/

West Park, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3AJ

Sarah Black, Director

ProjectBase is a non-for-profit commissioning organisation based in Cornwall with a programme including the commissioning of innovative artists' projects, often outside conventional gallery or museum contexts, and public events, talks and seminars.

Tate St Ives

http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/

Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1TG

Martin Clark, Artistic Director

Tate St Ives presents twentieth-century art in the context of Cornwall. At the heart of the programme of displays is a body of work for which the town of St Ives is internationally known - the modernist art produced by artists associated with the town and its surrounding area from the 1920s onwards. The displays at Tate St Ives change regularly, allowing a different selection from Tate's extensive collection of St Ives art to be shown each year. In addition, temporary exhibitions focus on a particular artist or theme.

The Exchange

http://www.newlynartgallery.co.uk

Princes Street, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2NL

A major expansion of the Newlyn Art Gallery, The Exchange is a conversion of the old Telephone Exchange in the heart of Penzance. The ground floor is the largest single gallery space in the South West. Incorporating exhibition areas, work and interactive spaces it has a programme of national and international artists and is sister to Newlyn Art Gallery

Urbanomic

http://www.urbanomic.com/about.php

The Old Lemonade Factory, Windsor Quarry, Falmouth, TR11 3EX

Urbanomic is a publisher and arts organization based in the UK. Our aims are:

- to promote research activities that address crucial issues in contemporary philosophy and science and their relation to contemporary art practice.

- to present to the public the results of that research, and an insight into the research process itself.

- to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production.

University College Falmouth

http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/

Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4RH

Dr Virginia Button, Head of the Department of Art,

University College Falmouth is a specialist arts college based in Falmouth, Cornwall and is a key player in the national and international scene. The College specializes in award winning Art, Design, Media, Performance and Writing courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level. `

Ged Quinn

Matravern Farm, Great Bussullow

Travel:

Trains to Redruth

Bath to Redruth

London to Redruth

Plymouth to Redruth

Swindon to Redruth

Walsall to Redruth

Trains from St Ives

St Ives to Bath

St Ives to London

St Ives to Plymouth

St Ives to Swindon

St Ives to Walsall

Newquay airport

UK destinations to:

Aberdeen

Dusseldorf

East Midlands

Bristol

Cork

Dublin

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Guernsey

Jersey

Isles of Scilly

Leeds/Bradford

London Gatwick

Manchester

Newcastle

Cardiff

http://www.newquaycornwallairport.com/

Contact:

Robert Dingle

020 7831 3220

07976 977110

Staying for the Weekend:

Friday

Wills Lane Gallery (St Ives)

Private View:

18.00 – 20.00

CRAFT CODE - 011 – New Ways of Making

Gary Allson, Ismini Samanidou, Katie Bunnell, Tavs Jorgensen, Drummond Masterton

http://www.willslanegallery.co.uk/

Saturday

Newlyn Art Gallery (Newlyn)

Curator’s Talk

12.30–14.00

Exhibition curator and artist Daniel Sturgis will introduce this collaborative exhibition project with Tate St Ives and lead a walk and talk around the Newlyn installation by artist John M. Armleder.

http://www.newlynartgallery.co.uk/