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Wheal Martyn’s new outdoor exhibition features historic photographs from Wheal Martyn’s archive, combined with poetry written by our Trainee Curator, Alexander Thomas, to help evoke a sense of understanding of the Cornish china clay industry – how it was, how it operated, and what has become of it in the centuries since its founding.
Each image has been carefully selected and placed to give a sense of Wheal Martyn’s past and present. Together with Alexander’s poetry, we want to encourage visitors to write and send in their own poetry around Clay Country.
Alexander explained: “I wrote the poetry off and on over the summer and it will be displayed on individual exhibition boards alongside each different image or set of images. Each piece was inspired by spending time out and about on site, at times simply sitting by each different landmark, such as the water wheels and pit view, and just immersing myself in the sight of them, their motion and the atmosphere around them.”
If you feel inspired to write some poetry yourself then please email us at [email protected] or tag us on social media @whealmartyn.
Thu 28th Mar, 2024
Lynher Dairies, Truro
Thu 21st Mar, 2024 — Thu 28th Mar, 2024
Calstock Arts, Calstock
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Thu 28th Mar, 2024
£15 — £15
Thu 21st Mar, 2024 — Thu 28th Mar, 2024
Calstock Arts, Calstock
£0 — £0
Fri 29th Mar, 2024 — Fri 12th Apr, 2024
Wheal Martyn, St Austell
Fri 2nd Feb, 2024 — Fri 19th Apr, 2024
Wheal Martyn, St Austell
£0 — £0
Fri 5th Jan, 2024 — Sun 21st Apr, 2024
Wheal Martyn, St Austell
Mon 26th Feb, 2024 — Mon 22nd Apr, 2024
Wheal Martyn, St Austell