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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
Very many thanks to David Thomas, of Kresen Kernow (Cornwall’s archives) in Redruth, for letting me know that an historic banner, belonging to Camborne Old Contemptibles, is hanging in Camborne Church. Camborne had an active branch of the Old Contemptibles, an organisation set up across the country in the years after World War One to […]
Read More
Our brilliant designer David Cross has re-sized our I PACKED THIS MYSELF cardboard cut-out cases to A4, so it should be possible to print one out double-sided on a home printer. If you have card, even better, but it will work on paper. Usually these cases are printed at A3 – but we thought we’d […]
Read More
It was a fresh and lovely drawing of a mango that started Shilpa Bilimoria’s journey towards setting up her own fashion label. Shilpa entered a competition that we ran for a British Sari design in 2007. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the contest – the British Sari Story – marked the 60th anniversary […]
Read More
We’re just starting on work with migrant workers and local communities in Cornwall
Read More