We recognise a way of working that deeply embeds the gallery in the life of our communities offers a means of developing important, hyper-local impacts made possible through national and international partnerships. Our programme of partnering young people from the LBTQIA+ community, WILD young parents, the Social Prescribing network, schools, Black Voices Cornwall and others with national collections created work that has local connection and resonance. We will be exploring the relationships our communities have with others outside our own locale, and how we are shaped by those from other places.
We are showing Hew Locke’s Armada in the Summer of 2025, and exploring the entangled histories of international trade and the movement of goods, as well as the movement of people, with a supporting programme that looks at contemporary patterns of migration and fishing from Newlyn Harbour.
Libita Sibungu will be immersed in the lived experience of women and families of colour within the Black British rural experience, considering displacement and the relationship of ancient African and Celtic mythologies and rituals connected to sacred stones.