Transitory

Exhibition at PZ Gallery by Caroline Cleave, Maxwell Steele & Claire Taylor.

Artists Caroline Cleave, Maxwell Steele and Claire Taylor met whilst studying on Newlyn School of Art’s one-year Mentoring Course in 2020. Their joint exhibition, titled ‘Transitory’, refers to “the fleeting nature of shadows and the ever-changing nature of light, movement and time” and examines, through painting, sculpture and photography, each artist’s own interpretations of time present and time past.

All three artists share a love of Cornwall’s timeless, sacred landscape, which holds scars of an industrial past when copper and tin were mined and transported around the world. Caroline is a painter and printmaker, Maxwell Steele is a painter and sculptor, and Claire Taylor is a photographer and printmaker, but their very different approaches to working fit together in this show through exploration and appreciation of black as a singularly powerful colour.