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Two Gallery Venues | Offering a wide and varied programme of contemporary art across two venues in West Cornwall.
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The Exchange - Princes Street, Penzance TR18 2NL
Newlyn Art Gallery - New Road, TR18 5PZ With two venues we are able to offer a wide and varied programme showcasing the very best of national and international contemporary art, as well as work by some of the best artists currently working in the region. See http://newlynartgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/ for details of current exhibitions. Well behaved dogs are welcome to both venues, but may not be allowed in the exhibition spaces during certain shows.

31/10/2026

🪨 STONE CLUB: AN EVENING OF TALKS AND FILMS

📅 FRI 13 NOV
17:00–20:00
📍 The Exchange

Join us for an evening of talks and film screenings with Stone Club, featuring Rupert White, Lally MacBeth, Matthew Shaw, Tëan Roberts and Layan Harman.

Founded by artists Lally MacBeth and Matthew Shaw, Stone Club brings stone enthusiasts together to explore ancient sites, share stories and discover new perspectives on prehistory through community and conversation.

🎟️ £11.55 incl. booking fee

Book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stone-club-tickets-1996790349688?aff=oddtdtcreator

28/10/2026

✍️ We’re thrilled to share details of our next creative writing workshop with Sara Bodinar at Newlyn Art Gallery!
📅 28 NOV – spaces are filling up!⏳

✨ What is the project about?
Sara Bodinar is embarking on ‘Golow Lulynn’, a year-long exploration of the Newlyn School and its continuing influence on the people and identity of Newlyn. The project brings together stories, research, creative writing and theatre, culminating in a new play and new research. 📚

As part of the project, Sara will lead six fun and informative creative writing workshops at Newlyn Art Gallery between October 2026 and July 2027. Each workshop explores a different aspect of creative writing, welcoming new, emerging and established writers alike. 📝

🖋️ The next workshop:
📅 28 NOV – Stories From The Harbour

How can you make a short story more powerful? 🌊 With limited space, every image, character, detail and twist needs to earn its place. Explore compression, implication, voice, point of view, beginnings and endings, and discover how to make a small story feel much bigger than the words on the page.

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The first workshop was a sell-out, so make sure you book your ticket soon! 💫

Image 3/ A gathering on Newlyn Beach after the first workshop 🌊
Image 4/ Newlyn Painters courtesy of the Newlyn Archive

28/10/2026

✍️ We’re thrilled to share details of our next creative writing workshop with Sara Bodinar at Newlyn Art Gallery! 🎨

📅 28 NOV – spaces are filling up!⏳

✨ What’s the project about?
Sara Bodinar is embarking on 'Golow Lulynn', a year-long exploration of the Newlyn School and its continuing influence on the people and identity of Newlyn. The project brings together stories, research, creative writing and theatre, culminating in a new play and new research. 📚🎭

As part of the project, Sara will lead six fun and informative creative writing workshops at Newlyn Art Gallery between October 2026 and July 2027. Each workshop explores a different aspect of creative writing, welcoming new, emerging and established writers alike. 📝

🖋️ The next workshop:
📅 28 NOV – Stories From The Harbour

How can you make a short story more powerful? 🌊 With limited space, every image, character, detail and twist needs to earn its place. Explore compression, implication, voice, point of view, beginnings and endings, and discover how to make a small story feel much bigger than the words on the page.

🎟️ Book your place here https: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-from-the-harbour-writing-workshop-tickets-1999786994734?)

Our first workshop was a sell-out, so make sure you book your ticket soon! 💫

Image 3/ We love these photos of everyone gathering on Newlyn Beach after the first workshop! 🌊✍️
Image 4/ Newlyn Painters courtesy of the Newlyn Archive

27/10/2026

We have had such a lovely time with the children from Stepping Stones nursery just up the road from us in Newlyn!

💛 Their three to four-year-olds have been visiting us over four weekly sessions this autumn.
Together with Annie Vigar from Little Artists at Newlyn Art Gallery and our Programme Producer Bettina Wenzel, the children explored Caroline Walker’s paintings of nursery-aged children and their carers through drawing, painting, collage and clay. 🖍️🎨🧩

🗣️ This pilot project ‘SMALL TALK’, is asking how visual arts can help support communication skills and language development in the early years. We hope to continue working with Stepping Stones on this in the future – so watch this space! ✨

🎟️ As a small thank you to all project participants and our partners, every child and staff member at Stepping Stones nursery and Newlyn School has received one of our family passes, valid for one year of free entry to both galleries. 💛 Don’t be a stranger – come and visit us! We look forward to seeing you.
Thank you also to Caroline Walker for providing the perfect exhibition for our pilot and for taking an interest in the project.

📣This is the final week of ‘Mothering’ so a great chance to bring your young ones into Newlyn Art Gallery and enjoy this fantastic exhibition.
Final day SAT 31, see you soon.

27/10/2026

🎨 We have had such a lovely time with the children from Stepping Stones nursery just up the road from us in Newlyn! 💛 Their three to four-year-olds have been visiting us over four weekly sessions this autumn.

Together with Annie Vigar from Little Artists at Newlyn Art Gallery and our Programme Producer Bettina Wenzel, the children explored Caroline Walker’s paintings of nursery-aged children and their carers through drawing, painting, collage and clay. 🖍️🎨🧩

🗣️ This pilot project 'SMALL TALK', is asking how visual arts can help support communication skills and language development in the early years. We hope to continue working with Stepping Stones on this in the future – so watch this space! ✨

🎟️ As a small thank you to all project participants and our partners, every child and staff member at Stepping Stones nursery and Newlyn School has received one of our family passes, valid for one year of free entry to both galleries. 💛 Don’t be a stranger – come and visit us! We look forward to seeing you.

Thank you also to Caroline Walker for providing the perfect exhibition for our pilot and for taking an interest in the project.

This is the final week of 'Mothering' so a great chance to bring your young ones into Newlyn Art Gallery and enjoy this fantastic exhibition. Final day SAT 31.

26/10/2026

📣 FINAL WEEK TO SEE OUR SUMMER EXHIBITIONS

There’s still time to visit 'ZED LOVE' by and 'Mothering' by , both closing this week. 🎨 With half term getting underway, it’s a great opportunity to bring the family and spend some time exploring the exhibitions. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦✨

🖼️ It’s also your last chance to see the current group show in The Picture Room and The Studio at Newlyn Art Gallery, featuring work by , and .

💛 Thank you to everyone who has visited, taken part and supported our programme this summer. We’ve loved hearing your responses and sharing these exhibitions with you.

📌 **PLEASE NOTE: UPCOMING CLOSURES**

📍 Newlyn Art Gallery
Closed 1–9 NOV for rehang. The gallery shop and FIKAreopen on TUE 10 NOV.

📍 The Exchange
Exhibition spaces closed 1–20 NOV for rehang. The gallery shop and Fig Cafe remain open as usual, TUE–SAT, 10:00–17:00. ☕️

COMING UP: OUR WINTER PROGRAMME

We’re getting ready to open two new exhibitions:
✨ 'OPEN' — celebrating the work of d/Deaf and disabled artists from across the rural South West.

🎨 'Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet' — a major exhibition by Harold Offeh.

📅 **SAVE THE DATE: FRI 20 NOV** for our Winter Programme opening night!

Keep an eye on our socials and newsletter for more details. 👀

24/10/2026

LOST WAX JEWELLERY WORKSHOP WITH RARE BEAR

Looking for a thoughtful, handmade gift this Christmas? ✨

Join Elle from 𝐑 𝐚 𝐫 𝐞 𝐁 𝐞 𝐚 𝐫 for a hands-on Lost Wax Jewellery Workshop and create a unique ring, pendant or small sculpture, professionally cast in brass or bronze. 💍

📅 Friday 20 November | 10:00–13:00
📍 The Exchange
🎟️ Booking essential (link in bio)

No experience needed – just bring your imagination!

Your finished piece will be sent to you a couple of weeks later, ready to gift or keep for yourself.

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24/10/2026

LOST WAX JEWELLERY WORKSHOP WITH RARE BEAR

Looking for a thoughtful, handmade gift this Christmas? ✨

Join Elle from Rare Bear at The Exchange for a hands-on Lost Wax Jewellery Workshop and create a unique ring, pendant or small sculpture, professionally cast in brass or bronze. 💍

📅 Friday 20 November | 10:00–13:00
📍 The Exchange
🎟️ Booking essential

No experience needed – just bring your imagination! Your finished piece will be sent to you a couple of weeks later, ready to gift or keep for yourself.

🔗 Book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-wax-jewellery-workshop-with-rare-bear-tickets-2000159455775

23/10/2026

COMING SOON 🖼️📣 ‘OPEN’: Celebrating the work of d/Deaf and disabled artists from across the rural South West

📆 21 NOV — 01 MAY 2027
📍 Newlyn Art Gallery

We’re thrilled to share a few images from Director James Green’s recent studio visit with Ben Davies, one of the artists exhibiting in our upcoming exhibition, OPEN. 🎨✨

‘OPEN’ emerged from an open call designed to provide a platform for artists in the region, with submissions considered through an open selection process involving representatives from Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, John Hansard Gallery , and DASH.

The ‘OPEN’ artists work from across a wide range of disciplines, including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, stained glass and moving image.

We thank Ben for inviting us to his Krowji studio and talking through his vast collection of conceptual works- fascinating stuff!

Our ‘OPEN’ artists include:

✨Benedict Davies, ✨Carrie Mason, ✨Dolly Kershaw, ✨Edie Evans, ✨Jane Knight, ✨Lily Bertrand-Webb, ✨Nick Ivins, ✨Patricia Dixon and ✨Siân Cann

We are very excited to bring this show together for our visitors this winter.

🔔SAVE THE DATE: FRI 20 NOV Exhibition opening night - keep an eye on our socials and newsletter for details. Newsletter sign up link in bio.

22/10/2026

COMING SOON 🖼️📣 HAROLD OFFEH: MMM, GOTTA TRY A LITTLE HARDER IT COULD BE SWEET

📆 21 NOV — 01 MAY 2027
📍 The Exchange, Penzance

We are thrilled to share a taster from an interview film by introducing our upcoming exhibiting artist Harold Offeh

Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet, is a major exhibition that brings together performance, video and participatory works developed over the past two decades in the UK and internationally.

Originally conceived for Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, this collection of works highlights the breadth of Offeh’s practice and his distinctive use of humour, performance and collaboration to explore contemporary social and political questions.

And it's on it's way to Penzance!

🔔SAVE THE DATE: FRI 20 NOV Exhibition opening night - keep an eye on our socials and newsletter for details. Newsletter sign up link in bio

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Harold Offeh: 'Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet' is organised by Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge.

Film created by , courtesy of

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New Road, Newlyn & Princes Street
Penzance
TR185PZ

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

01736 363715

Website

http://www.newlynartgallery.co.uk/

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