ALMA Winter Arts Weekend: Art Installation by Leila Galloway

Hebaska is the Cornish word for calm and new work that will transform the Fly Loft, a cavernous space previously used for storing pilchards, above Newquay Harbour.

The installation is a re-working of the organza originally exhibited in a collaborative installation Sound Solid Liquid Light, shown at Two Queens, Leicester, earlier this year, with SJ Blackmore, Naomi Frears and Alice Mahoney.

The mass of material will act both as a porous veil to the sea and an enclosure within the space, creating an enveloping and immersive experience.

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

She studied sculpture at both Manchester Metropolitan University and the Slade School of Art. Later continuing on to study Aesthetics and Art Theory at The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. She has taught at various Higher Education institutions in the UK, exhibiting at numerous independent spaces and museums both nationally and internationally.

ALMA’s Winter Arts Festival will feature on the closing weekend of Be Newquay Festival – a new season of events, activities and workshops that celebrate Newquay’s culture and creative spirit. Throughout each weekend in November, the festival will be taking place at various venues across the town. Find out what else is on the programme here. Join us and be creatively curious.

The Be Newquay Festival has been curated by Cornwall Council project ‘Experience Newquay’ in collaboration with local project partners Love Newquay and Visit Newquay. It is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.