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Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange 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.

LOST WAX JEWELLERY WORKSHOP WITH RARE BEARLooking for a thoughtful, handmade gift this Christmas? ✨Join Elle from 𝐑 𝐚 𝐫 ...
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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LOST WAX JEWELLERY WORKSHOP WITH RARE BEARLooking for a thoughtful, handmade gift this Christmas? ✨Join Elle from Rare B...
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

COMING SOON 🖼️📣 ‘OPEN’: Celebrating the work of d/Deaf and disabled artists from across the rural South West📆 21 NOV — 0...
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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📸 INTRODUCING TEÄN ROBERTS’ ‘HOLDFAST’📍 The Studio, Newlyn Art Gallery📅 12 Sep – 31 OctTeän Roberts presents ‘Holdfast’,...
19/10/2026

📸 INTRODUCING TEÄN ROBERTS’ ‘HOLDFAST’
📍 The Studio, Newlyn Art Gallery
📅 12 Sep – 31 Oct

Teän Roberts presents ‘Holdfast’, a photographic investigation into the folk-history of kelping in the Isles of Scilly. 🌊

All that is left of this 150-year-long subsistence practice – of collecting, drying and burning seaweed for glass making – are the stone-lined pits where the kelp was burned.

🌿 Roberts’ work begins with a place – like these half-collapsed kelp pits on the islands’ coasts – where the veil to the imaginary feels thin and they can play with the images that leak through. By sinking their body into the landscape, submerging into the earth and into history, they catch hold of the glimmering memories latent in the land and its vanished heritage.

Their photographs, captured in the transformative light at the edge of the day, reveal the lasting traces of this vanished heritage on the place and its people.

✨ Don’t miss the opportunity to see ‘Holdfast’ at Newlyn Art Gallery, amongst the panoramic views of the sea from the studio.

Teän Roberts

📅 The exhibition is on until SAT 31 OCT.

🎄✨ LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE A LITTLE DIFFERENT FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS PARTY?From festive gatherings with friends and family to ...
17/10/2026

🎄✨ LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE A LITTLE DIFFERENT FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS PARTY?

From festive gatherings with friends and family to office celebrations, our two contemporary art spaces offer something a little different this Christmas! 🥂

🧖‍♀️ Enjoy a sauna, hot/cold plung and sea views at Newlyn Art Gallery, or take on an escape room challenge at The Exchange, Penzance. Both packages include a festive buffet, prosecco and access to our current exhibitions. 🎨

📩 Get in touch to find out more and book your festive celebration!

🔗 Find out more via the link in the comments below 👇

🎨 SECONDARY SCHOOL ART TEACHERS’ CPD DAY📅 MON 9 NOV🕤09:30–15:30📍The Exchange Join our annual cpd gathering for secondary...
14/10/2026

🎨 SECONDARY SCHOOL ART TEACHERS’ CPD DAY

📅 MON 9 NOV
🕤09:30–15:30
📍The Exchange

Join our annual cpd gathering for secondary school art teachers: a day to recharge your creativity, bolster your resilience and connect with your peers. 💭

This year we will explore:
📊 grading standards and curriculum development
🎨 safeguarding the future of the arts in schools
🌱 improving student pathways

A snap shot of the day:

▪️Levelling session focusing on grading standards, assessment objectives, and student progression.

▪️What does the art & design gcse and a level landscape in cornwall look like today? how can truro college’s art, design & photography department support schools? action research with sue loydell, lecturer in art & design at truro college

▪️Drawing, movement & line. a practical workshop delivered by artist and choreographer kyra norman

▪️Curriculum in the arts – what are we striving for? whether you are delivering a connected curriculum across a mat, a shared curriculum across your school or are the only art teacher at your organisation, what are your priorities for a curriculum that is inspiring and adaptable and serves your students? peer-led by amy green, art lead at st ives school and art curriculum lead for tpat.


Refreshments and lunch is included.

£85 ticket, booking essential. link in comments 👇🏽

Your October events 👋Arts and culture seekers - scroll across to see what events are happening this month across both ga...
07/10/2026

Your October events 👋
Arts and culture seekers - scroll across to see what events are happening this month across both galleries. We hope you’ll join us!💫 Tap the link in the comments for bookable events.

VOICE, RHYTHM & BELONGING: AN EMBODIED AFRO-DIASPORIC JOURNEY
10 Oct | 14:00 - 15:30
◻️A workshop specifically intended for people of colour aged 18 and over, creating a dedicated space to explore the Afro-diasporic journey through voice, rhythm, movement and collective creativity. This event is part of ZED LOVE by
FREE | Booking essential - link in bio.

ZED LOVE CLOSING PERFORMANCE & IN CONVERSATION
23 Oct | 18.30 - 20.30
◻️A closing performance by exhibiting artist Libita Sibungu, followed by an in conversation with sound artist, Neil Rose. Neil Rose
FREE | Booking essential - link in bio.

FAMILY WORKSHOP : SCRAP WEAVING
28 Oct | 14:00 – 15:45
◻️Children will learn to make a simple weaving frame from found materials and create their own creative woven fabric using scrap materials. Ages 5-12
£11.55 | Link in bio to book

Tags:Geddon PZ Primary Times Cornwall Love Penzance Blackbird Pie Magazine YARN

HALLOWEEN LIFE DRAWING
29 Oct | 18.00 -21.00
◻️Join us for a Halloween-themed evening of life drawing at The Exchange, with our live model dressed in costume for the occasion.
£16.96 | Link in bio to book

👣 Little Artists Term Time Workshops for Mini Artists (6 – 18 months) and Little Artists (18 months – 4 years)
9 Sep – 14 Oct (6 weeks)

◻️Annies famous fun and colourful art sessions for your little one, with weekly classes that help to nurture and develop their creativity — email [email protected] to grab your place.
join /pay as you go or sign up to blocks. Little Artists at Newlyn Art Gallery

Coming up next month we have some excellent creative events to get involved with from our event hosts
🖼️Alice Kilpatrick, 📝Sara Bodinar, 🪨Stone Club and 💍𝐑 𝐚 𝐫 𝐞 𝐁 𝐞 𝐚 𝐫

You can browse WHATS ON on our website to learn more.

📣Also, don’t forget to head over to FIG @ The Exchange who have some very exciting events coming up including a , music gig and much more!

Today marked the last in-person session at The Bread Line in Penzance for our community-curated project with St Petrocs ...
06/10/2026

Today marked the last in-person session at The Bread Line in Penzance for our community-curated project with St Petrocs | Cornish Homelessness Charity
 
During the ten sessions our Programme Curator & Learning Lead Rebecca English and art fascilitator Theo Carter Webber have worked with St Petroc clients. Each week has begun in the same way: gathering around a table to share food, conversation and time together before exploring a selection of portraits from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection.
 
After finalising the works from National Portrait Gallery, which will be on display at The Exchange next year, we enjoyed a visit back to The Exchange to look and engage with ZED LOVE by .

Huge thanks goes out to for facilitating in such thought provoking and engaging ways, to our funders of this project The Headley Trust and Penzance Council and our partner The National Portrait Gallery.

We can’t wait to share this exhibition with you in the Summer next year.

YOUR FESTIVE HIRE IN OUR GALLERY SPACES!We are excited to offer two unique festive hire packages at both gallery venues:...
04/10/2026

YOUR FESTIVE HIRE IN OUR GALLERY SPACES!

We are excited to offer two unique festive hire packages at both gallery venues: Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange in collaboration with Rising Embers Sauna 🧖🏼 and Escape Rooms Cornwall 🔐

Nov + Dec dates available.

📍NEWLYN ART GALLERY 🌊
SAUNA. HOT / COLD PLUNGE. SEA VIEWS.
This is a great option for groups of friends, larger family gatherings, work colleagues or teams looking to do something a little different together over the festive season.
Enjoy a 45-minute sauna, hot tub or cold plunge experience, followed by a finger buffet, prosecco and access to our current exhibitions.
From £40pp
Groups of 8–25

📍THE EXCHANGE, PENZANCE 🔐
ESCAPE ROOM. BUFFET. PROSECCO.
Get competitive with an escape room challenge for your group, then celebrate in The Engine Room with food, drinks and contemporary art exhibitions.
From £60pp with Escape Room (£40pp without)
Groups of 8–40

TWO VENUES. TWO VERY DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS PARTY EXPERIENCES.

✨ Prefer to do your own thing?
You can also hire The Studio at Newlyn Art Gallery or The Engine Room at The Exchange and make the space your own. Bring your own activities, refreshments and festive plans.

get in touch to check availability and discuss your plans. You can find more information via the link in the comments below bio or simply email
📩 [email protected] and we can take it from there!

We hope we can help you make your Christmas party something a little different this year! 🎄

Address

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

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