Women of Cornwall

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Tickets

Free £0

Location

Kresen Kernow, Redruth

Dates

Thu 1st May, 2025 — Thu 3rd July, 2025
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9:30 am |
This pop-up exhibition is available to visit during our usual opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 9.30am-4pm.

About this event

Women of Cornwall pop-up exhibition from Penryn Arts Centre

Don’t miss the new ‘Women of Cornwall’ exhibition in collaboration with Art Centre Penryn, in our pop-up exhibition space!

You can see about half of the 234 women nominated through their Women of Cornwall project and a selection of the portraits that were made in community workshops.

Also on display are some items from the Kresen Kernow collections, featuring Anna Maria Fox, founder of Falmouth Royal Polytechnic Society (The Poly); Barbara Hosking, media advisor to two prime ministers; Tamsin Wilton, first professor of Human Sexual Health; Penelope Shuttle, feminist poet; Madame Hawke, Newquay knitwear entrepreneur; and Ithell Colquhoun, surrealist artist and occultist.

This pop-up exhibition is available to visit during our usual opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 9.30am-4pm.

Contact

01872 324 333 | https://kresenkernow.org/event/women-of-cornwall-pop-up-exhibition/

Accessibility

Details

Kresen Kernow is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible, with lifts to all levels and automatic main entrance doors. Accessible toilets are available on both floors, with a fully-equipped Changing Places toilet also available on the ground floor. Separate baby changing facilities are also available on the ground floor. If you are arriving by vehicle, there are six accessible parking spaces at the Tesco side of the building and a level entrance into the building. If you are arriving on foot or wheels, from Redruth town centre, the closest entrance is at the end of the public path which runs through the old brewery site, from Chapel Street to Kresen Kernow.

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