A good turn-out this Remembrance Day (11/11/21) at the Memorial Gardens at Penlee in Penzance. The ceremony was led by the British Legion and a bugler played the Last Post and Reveille. We laid a wreath in memory of the three Bird brothers in Penzance who tragically lost their lives in World War One. A […]
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We’re continuing our workshops on the workers from overseas who play a vital role in the Cornish economy. The aim is to highlight the role that they play and the issues they might face when making the huge life decision to leave home and create a life elsewhere. Most recently we Zoomed in to Mousehole […]
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Remembrance Sunday 2020 click here to watch: Laying a wreath on the grave of Dr William Blackwood in Camborne – a World War One hero by anyone’s standards. In 1914 Dr Blackwood led a group of local miners out to the Western Front. They served throughout the war in the 25th Field Ambulance (Royal Army […]
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Hard to believe that WHATEVER IT TAKES, our competition for a Cornish skateboard design, was launched eight years ago in 2012. The skateboards are still inspiring young artists – currently on display at Camborne Library, in Cornwall. For more about the project, click here. For a web gallery of some of the original boards, click […]
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It was great to see artist Pete Kirby last week (27 September 2020) for the first time for some years. Pete – now lecturing at Falmouth University – came to collect the wonderful deck he created for our skateboard design competition in 2012. For more details of Pete’s board, click here. For images from the […]
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Our exhibition and a series of events entitled Srebrenica Now was held in July 2005 to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide in the town during the war in Bosnia. This took place at the (now closed) Salon des Arts, Queensgate, London. We staged Srebrenica Now in partnership with the photographer and researcher Philippa […]
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