Andy Holden’s work takes a multitude of forms – large installations or sculptures, long-form videos, animation and music – that often oscillate between personal narratives and historical research. He often appears in his work, as an animated version of himself, as a teenage actor, or in the role of narrator.

Mira Calix is an award-winning artist and composer based in the United Kingdom. Music and sound, which she considers a sculptural material, are at the centre of her practice. Her work explores the manipulation of the material into visible, physical forms through multi-disciplinary installations, sculpture, video and performance works. Calix’s practice is deliberately disjunctive, allowing research, site and subject to influence a fluid choice of materials and mediums.

Teresa Gleadowe is a curator, writer and editor with extensive experience in the contemporary visual arts in the UK and internationally. She initiated The Falmouth Convention held at University College Falmouth in 2010 and The Penzance Convention held at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange in 2012 and has developed the ongoing series of Cornwall Workshops held at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula. In 2012, she founded CAST (the Cornubian Arts & Science Trust), based in Helston. She is the Director of Groundwork, a three year project developed in partnership with Tate St Ives, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and Kestle Barton.

Alice Mahoney is an artist and musician based in Redruth, Cornwall. Working predominantly in installation her work incorporates film, sound, sculpture, painting and print. Her practice takes references from decorative and architectural forms, science fiction and domestic interiors to create staged environments and narratives, exploring our social and political engagement with our surroundings and objects.

Andy Harper grew up in Torquay and went to a Polytechinic in Brighton followed by a couple of MAs in London. He currently lives in St just, has a studio in St Ives and teaches part time on a broad-based fine art course.

Emily Hawes is a visual artist, based in Bournemouth, working across sculpture, video & participatory practice. With poetic tendencies & a non-linear approach, she proposes new relations to the body & the landscape, which are are informed by Posthuman Feminist thinking & ethics of care.

Finlay Abbott Ellwood was born in Penwith and then studied in London at the Slade, specialising in painting. In 2018 he walked along the cost past between these two places, connecting them physically, but also psychologically getting a better understanding of the space in between. These two areas are harbours where at various times he has docked. Cross county durational walking allows one to view the landscape as a portal, a telescope, an indexed conglomeration of experience which can then manifest itself onto a singular surface like a painting. He likes to think of time and experience as a bowl, and the act of painting as trying to replicate the memories and images that fill it.

Flo Brooks is an artist based between Brighton and the South-West. Predominantly a painter working in acrylic on wood, Brooks also draws upon a broader practice informed by the application and production of drawing, collage, publication and social practice, to interrogate relationships between gender, community, architecture and labour. 

Georgia Gendall is an artist and gardener living and working in Falmouth, Cornwall. Her multidisciplinary practice is often satirical, sometimes immersive and frequently inconclusive. Using sculpture, performance, sound and video Gendall examines the interconnected relationships between our sense of self and our experienced environment within the prevailing social, political and economic landscape. Her practice often creates problems of its own in order to create poetic and futile solutions to those problems.

Jane Darke is a documentary director, painter and writer. She made a film about Atlantic debris with playwright Nick Darke about their collection of found objects and connections made through them with the eastern seaboard of the Americas, as well as Cornish fishermen and wreckers, The Wrecking Season, 2005. It was the first film to be broadcast to mention plastic pollution of the seas. The Art of Catching Lobsters, about grief, was made after Nick died in 2009. Her most recent film was about the Poet Charles Causley (2017). All were broadcast on BBC FOUR. Her book Held by the Sea was published by Souvenir Press in 2010, about the healing power of landscape. Jane has also made several radio programmes for BBC Radio 4. 

Leila Galloway is an artist and educator based in Penryn. She describes herself as a maker of things, using sculpture within the bounds of installation. Her practice is concerned with different states of flux: translations of various physical states and the way things appear to flow in an unending series of fleeting moments of suspension.

Lizzie Ridout trained in visual communication at Falmouth College of Art & The Royal College of Art. She focuses on research as an artistic practice, with provenance – of material, language, process – underpinning her outcomes. She often works with paper and archives.

Within Mollie Goldstrom’s recent art practice, seaweed functions as a site of convergence between interlocking narratives and histories, encompassing many centuries and coastal environments. Working in multiple modes, she explores seaweed as a vehicle for curiosity, optimism, and transcendence as well as a reflection of human and environmental exploitation and devastation. Amidst anxieties of forces outside individual control or comprehension; a rising climate of societal and ecological collapse, narrative drawing, writing, and cookery are her means of creating order, wonder, and understanding.

Olivia Brelsford-Massey is an artist and life-form based in Cornwall, UK.

She explores intersections between art / making and science, technology, research, magic, humour, activism. She’s particularly interested in how we can re-contextualise these and other themes in order to understand them differently; through small subversions, collaging, re-jiggling.

Rachael Jones is a filmmaker and postgraduate researcher based in Cornwall. Her work employs experimental and arts-based techniques to disrupt traditional methods of documenting and recording. She combines a range of archival sources, blending old photographs with newly created visuals and incorporating both analogue and digital formats to create a playful tension in her films.

Simon Bayliss is an artist, music producer and active member of Extinction Rebellion, based in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. He works mainly in slipware ceramics, video, poetry, watercolour painting and performance. Bayliss also makes and performs dance music in collaboration with Susie Green, as Splash Addict. Born in Wolverhampton, he was raised in Andros, Bahamas, then Devon, UK.