Events planned for closing day (Saturday 7th September): Second Nature artist, Sandy Layton will be running children’s clay workshop at Tremenheere, 11am-12.30pm. This is an outdoor event so weather permitted. Families welcome, cost £3. Then at 2pm – 4pm, join us in raising a glass to the artists at the finissage of the exhibition. All are welcome to attend.
An exhibition of mostly London-based sculptors creating work from a starting point of Tremenheere’s beautiful natural environment and using the phrase ‘Second Nature’ to ask questions about our relationship to the world.
Visitors come to Cornwall from all over the country and like the sculptors in this show many are urban dwellers. Artists’ work will explore the many ways we may think about the natural world today – what is artificial and what is organic, altered versions of nature that reflect our interaction with the planet, migration in ecology, the movement of a species to a different environment. The exhibition will also look at the theatricality of our interactions with nature, suggest replication, mutation and reinvention. The exhibition asks – Where does nature end and we begin, where does the world become not nature.
All the participating artists are sculptors working across a wide variety of materials and media from found objects to ceramics, steel and wood, hi-tech to traditional. Work will be shown both inside Tremenheere Gallery and outside.
The participating artists make up the group Changeable Beast: Aileen Kelly, Alex Hegazy, Andy Gomez, Belinda Worsley, Carolyn Whittaker, Chuting Lee, Clare Jarrett, Diana Wolzak, Eveleigh-Evans, Ellie Reid, Jennifer Moore, Karen Byrne, Katie Houston, Kay Senior, Matthew Foster, Ornella Novello, Rachael Causer, Sandy Layton, Seona Myerscough, Susan Young, Tania Salha, Tessa Garland, Tina Culverhouse, Tom Witherick, Vivien Delta. They are joined by guest artists Alice Wilson, Ian Dawson, Nicky Hirst and Marcus Harvey. Tessa Garland, one of the founding members of Changable Beast, is a former resident of Penzance and as part of work with Penwith Artist Led Projects (PALP) has previously curated ephermeral projects and exhibitions at Tremenheere.
Tremenheere Gallery’s opening hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 4pm (also open Bank Holiday Monday). There will be an opening event on Friday 9th August, 6 – 8pm, where you will be able to meet many of the exhibiting artists – all welcome to attend, no need to book. Entry to Tremenheere Gallery is FREE.
Follow Changeable Beast for show details and more about the group on Instagram @changeable_beast.
Read the interview: SECOND NATURE: Tessa Garland in Conversation with Rachel Hindley