Associates of the gallery are invited to enter a few times a year to exhibit in the gallery via a selection process for each individual show. The current exhibition is open to the public from August 7th – September 4th 2021. This current show is exhibiting a variety of sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, photographs and prints from our Associate Members of the Penwith Society of Arts.
The Gallery, formerly an old pilchard packing factory, has a remarkable complex of buildings, including three public galleries, artists’ studios, a print workshop, a sculpture courtyard, shop and archive.
The Society was founded in 1949 by Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Bernard Leach, Sven Berlin and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, amongst others.
The Society moved to its present location in 1961 and the site was extended in the early 1970s to include a former underground car park and adjacent buildings.
A charitable company – Penwith Galleries Ltd – was created to arrange the programme of exhibitions, execute all gallery business and manage the entire complex.
Today the Penwith offers a year-round programme of exhibitions by Society Members and Associates, as well as those by other artists from Cornwall and further afield.
The Penwith continues to be at the forefront of presenting contemporary work of quality.
