About this Event
The Poetry Club is a revival of a club which was set up by a group of artists in St Just Library in 2018. Each session is led by an artist, who brings a poem of their choosing to share with the group for discussion for the first 40 minutes. In the second half of the session, group participants are invited to share their own recent writing for informal feedback.
(It is not expected that everybody will have writing to share.)
There will be six sessions, running from 15 Jan until 30 Apr, taking place in The studio at Newlyn Art Gallery, which looks out to sea. You can come to as many of the sessions as you like, but each one will need to be booked.
THU 26 FEB: NINA ROYLE
Nina Royle is an artist based in West Cornwall. Her work is centred in painting but is also made as text, performance and utilitarian object. In these works mythologies, observations of the phenomenal within the everyday, and the alchemic possibilities of pigmented materials conflate, to be understood through one another. Her most recent work explores the hand mirror as a symbol that has a plurality of readings, connected to ideas of vanitas, divining, reflection, morality and the appearance of things.
Recent solo exhibitions include: And so, the Magpies Multiply, Kestle Barton, Cornwall (2024); Down Your Tresses, Arusha, Edinburgh 2022; Tongues and Mirrors in Mercury, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2021). Recent group exhibitions and projects include: The Land Will Call You home, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall (2025); ‘Acts of Gathering’ (with Lucy Stein), Eden Project, Cornwall (2023); ‘And One Day the Apple Fell, ‘The Black Box UCA, Farnham; (2023); Hospital Rooms commission (with Libita Sibungu), Springfield Hospital, London (2022); Bathing Nervous Limbs, Arusha, Edinburgh, 2021.
Free, all welcome, but booking essential as places are limited.
Hot drinks and biscuits provided! (Donation welcome)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Newlyn Art Gallery, New Road, Newlyn, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
