Newlyn Society ‘Memory’ Tremenheere Gallery near Penzance , April 9-1st May, (closed Mondays) 11-4 free admission.
I gather from reading a notice that the title is not meaning that all the artists selected tackle that subject head-on- they can send in any current work, but at first I was looking for connections with memory and I think the show could better be entitled less misleadingly ‘ current work by NSA artists.’
As I was enjoying looking around a member asked me if I was going to dismiss the entire show as she thought I did last time I wrote about NSA but if you reread my previous blog on ‘maryfletcher’s blog on art’ I did not do that. I think artists can stand a few less than ecstatic responses however. Recently someone crossed the street to thank me for a review that wasn’t entirely positive because they found it thought provoking.
Some of the artists have responded to the title for example Sue Bleakley made a brain-like sculpture,
Delpha Hudson looked back at different caring roles she had experience of,
Andrew Swan chronicled various remarks from Boris Johnson with implied disapproval.
There are a lot of pictures and some video and 3D work so it takes a while to digest the variety and pick anything out.
I liked Carlos Zapata’s ‘St Joseph and the golden Child’ which is painted wood.
Leone Whitton ‘Signals from Lyonesse’ is darkly mysterious.
Daniel Turner’s ‘Pikes’ is a fanciful attractive landscape.
Melissa Wraxall’s ‘Charybdis’ is a vibrant expressionist composition.
Charlotte Turner’s ‘Quiet Introspection’ is a very subtle circular abstraction.
So as usual a huge variety and catering to most tastes.
Sometimes a bit of information or explanation on a label might help the viewer who drops in but one can go to the NSA website for research or ask an invigilator.
