FLAMM: between the other things, and the sorrys – Liam Jolly

Here he reflects on his complex relationship to two very different Redruths, the place he grew up, and the place he now lives and works. Buoyed by the ghosts that occupy this forever-changing space, this is an ode to the town he calls home. An ode to the ever-evolving high street, to closure, to change, and to hope. To the end of one thing, but the start of something else.

By accumulating and layering source material from personal memories, recycled work, and fragments from the everyday, this work reflects on identity, subjectivity, legacy, and desire.

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About the Artist

Liam Jolly is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Redruth, Cornwall. He graduated from University College Falmouth with a MA in Fine Art Contemporary Practice in 2012 and has since exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2012 he co-founded artist run project space CMR, and in 2018 launched Auction House, an exhibition and project space, both in Redruth.

Auction House hosts a regular programme of public exhibitions and events, recently including Mark Leckey’s Music & Video Lab, a project that offered people aged 18-24 the opportunity to learn video editing and music production which Jolly co-led with the Turner Prize Winning Artist, in association with CAST in Helston.

His recent exhibitions, awards and residencies include : The Redruth Albany Club, Kingsgate Project Space London. 2023; Gatherings, SET, London. 2023; Four Four, Grays Wharf, Penryn. 2022; Pa-ra-did-dle (with Krystle Patel), TURF Projects, Croydon; Antibodies, Make Tank, Exeter; Your Foot in my Face and other Tectonic Strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London. 2021; Where is the Way to Arcadia? in So the Red Rose, Tyman & Webster, Arkadien festival, Ebersberg Kunstverein, Germany. 2021; Synethesia, Online Project 2020, Amen Brother, Exeter Phoenix Artists Moving Image Commission 2018; Structures, Newlyn Art Gallery.

He is also a co-director of Back Lane West in Redruth alongside artist Patrick Lowry, as well as music promoter and musician, currently playing drums in the band Disco Rococo.

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