The exhibition presents the work of the nine artists who have collaborated with other artists across creative disciplines, as well as with non-artists and organisations.
Challenging the presumption of the sole artist working alone, the collaborators include kick boxers, musicians, surfers, anthropologists and Penzance Library.
The results of the partnerships take each artist into new territories. The work will include sculpture, video, sound, drawing, with an extensive programme of associated performances, talks and seminars.
The Engine Room will present contextual exhibition material from each of the projects and resource information on the artists and their collaborators.
Alessandra Ausenda and musician/composer Ruth Wall explore the politics of 'work' and will construct a huge dress with an army of sewing machines and their real life attendants being led by a musical score from December 18 to January 9.
Bernard Irwin's and artist Howard Silverman's work is strongly influenced by the environments in which they live and work.
Using cardboard, with primary blocks and lines of colour, they will make real kingdoms, tumbling down staircases, an undulating topography of rippling sand dunes, deeply pocketed mountain ranges and city canyons.
Using video, printmaking and sculpture, Bren Unwin and anthropologist Dr Helen Cornish explore the role of arts practice within an academic framework and whether it can stand such high level scrutiny.
Jesse Leroy Smith and artist/writer Paul Becker investigate and wonder at the identity of the outsider artist, Palmer White, with whom over the years they have established an extraordinary relationship (but whom neither have met) via found objects and artworks in the landscape.
Jessica Cooper and fellow surfer Richard Hawkins's collaboration will take the shape of a book looking at the times when their lives overlap through their shared interest and involvement in the surfing world.
John Keys and composer Graham Fitkin have created Tidal, a piece of work based in a specific coastal location. As the work plays between the seen and the heard, the visitor will be able to traverse a series of drawings on the glass columns of the gallery window amidst the broadcast of specially composed music.
Kate Walters and artist Karen Lorenz have developed their project from a series of conversations about human mortality and daughter as carer and how to describe such experiences to an audience through visual means.
Ken Turner and Kick Boxing World Champion Julie Kitchen create a thrilling week long programme of events in the gallery that let the audience experience live kick boxing, music, Thai food and very active life drawing sessions exhibiting on site from October 17 to 24.
Gareth Edwards moves mountains with the Penzance Library by placing a large section of the art books from the library's shelves into the gallery, making a direct link between what is on the shelves and what artists produce through research. From October 31 to December 24.
For more information see www.newlynartgallery.co.uk or www.nsanewlyn.com
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