This is Conrwall
AddThis Social Bookmark Button
A challenge is being mounted against the management of the Newlyn and Exchange art galleries.The annual meeting of the Newlyn Art Galleries takes place next Wednesday (November 6) at 6.30pm at the Exchange Gallery in Princes Street, Penzance.


There, gallery members Simon Turney, Suze White and Francis Howie are standing for election to the committee in a bid to oust chairman Charles Hancock.

And there will also be a vote of no confidence in ProjectBase Cornwall Ltd, the company that manages exhibitions at the two galleries.

Mr Turney, an emergency planner, says he has become "increasingly disenchanted" with the management of the galleries during his three years as a member of Newlyn Art Galleries and hopes his election will help to bring about the changes he believes are necessary.

Mr Turney is being backed by Bernard Evans, a former chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

He claims that management blunders at the galleries have vitally affected the interests of the Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA) and calls for the NSA to be allowed a third of the programming at both Newlyn and the Exchange.

He also questions the finances of ProjectBase Ltd, saying that "bureaucracy in the arts is burgeoning at the expense of practising artists".

article copyright THE CORNISHMAN