26th April – 13th June 2025
Gallery handouts: Artist Bios and List of Works
A group show curated by Samuel Bassett exploring our deep connection to the land, how we arrive from it, live within it, and ultimately return to it.
Featuring artists: Ali Bassett, Andy Harper, Arthur Lanyon, Ben Sanderson, Carlos Zapata, Chantel Powell, Charlie Duck, Daisy Rickman, Holly Bunce, Jamie Mills, Joe Packer, Katrina Naomi, Kyra Norma, Libita Sibungu, Nina Royal, Orla Kane, Ro Robertson, Rosanna Martin, Samuel Bassett, SHARP, Simon Bayliss, Siobhan McLaughlin, Tegen Mor Tossell.
There will be an opening event on Friday 25th April, 5-7pm at Tremenheere Gallery. This falls just before the opening of the exhibition, ‘Christopher P Green & Charlie Duck’ at Hweg in Penzance (6-8pm), so why not make an exhibition opening crawl out of it!
About the exhibition:
‘We arrive as small happenings, brief bursts of life, emerging from and returning to the land beneath us. These works trace that cycle: life and death, presence and absence, the rhythms of seasons, stars, and stone.
Rooted in Cornwall, each artist brings their own place, a fragment of celestial knowledge, geography, spirit, and soil. Through clay, mineral, myth and memory, they explore what it means to belong to a landscape. The land is worked with, spoken to, and remembered. These are marks of the body and the soul.
Themes of rebirth, death, and time ripple across the show. Patterns emerge, tensions and balances that echo the landscape itself. Footprints and fingerprints press into soft earth; berries bruise clay; valleys are followed like old stories. There is a sense of deep listening, of attunement.
We glimpse new spaces imagined from the familiar, how many ways there are to see the same place. Ideas grow differently, like people nurtured by the same soil but turning their faces to different suns.
We are connected, like the mycelium beneath our feet, alone yet not alone. A web of roots, gestures, and echoes. The land moves through us as we move through it, pulsing with life. Something old gives way to something new. A seed after a blossom. A breath shared between beings.
This is not a straight line, but a living rhythm. An organism of many parts.
We, the resilient, make sense of this place, its beauty, its weight, its change, and find ourselves within it, again and again.’
Tremenheere Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 4pm. Many of the works are for sale.