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Phyllis Galembo

Phyllis Galembo

https://www.galembo.com/projects Its quite tricky finding a compendium of masquerading traditions around the world but I learnt a new phrase this morning, 'second face' thanks to the online museum of cultural masks. We have plenty of examples of these traditions in...

How big can we go

How big can we go

In a recent project at St Ives Library we were exploring our passion for the sea and I set myself the challenge of going large.

Artist Lucy Wright

fusion morris dancing, direct connections to the past https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyWHCHkIt3A/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

‘Pimp my Cornish Clobber’  

starts january- Through Artslab we have funding for our first project with Wheal Martyn Museum of the Clay country ‘Category is Cornish work wear’   Young people will explore and select costumes from photographs and garments provided by our museums and...

Hidden Faces

Hidden Faces

The photography of Edward S Curtis, exploring the aboriginal cultures in the USA, feels like people want more of this today

Acting like animals

Acting like animals

Giving young people the opportunity to wear a mask has developed their confidence with seeing themselves and each other behind and in front of the lens. Originally I was exploring how we might blank out a models features and or break down emotions as in ancient...

The Wide Awakes

The Wide Awakes

A network of artists helping to create political and social change https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/style/wide-awakes-civil-war-activists.html

Toning cyanotypes

Toning cyanotypes

more test prints toned with tea, bleached with soda crystals, enquiring how we can reinvent wet processes to make them sustainable and inclusive