A SKIN MADE POROUS

Artist : Paul Benney (b. 1959)
Title : Horror Vacui
Medium : digitally animated original painting on media player and monitor


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Paul Benney was born in London and currently lives and works in Suffolk. He rose to international prominence as a member of the Soho and East Village Neo-Expressionist group, whilst living and working in New York City in the 1980s where he worked and exhibited alongside peers Marylyn Minter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Wojnarovicz among the many other others who made up the exploding NY art scene. Despite living and working in this extraordinary creative environment Benney’s painting maintained a uniquely English sensibility. 

Collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The National Gallery of Australia and The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Royal Collection and The Eli Broad Foundation own works. He has exhibited in eight BP Portrait Award Exhibitions and twice won the BP Visitors’ Choice Award. Benney’s portrait subjects have included HM Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Mick Jagger, John Paul Getty III, 7th Marquess of Bath, The State Portrait for Israel, Lord Rothschild, as well as Ben Barnes for the portrait in the feature film ‘A Portrait of Dorian Grey’. Benney was invited to be resident artist at Somerset House in 2010. During his five year residency he held the exhibition ‘Night Paintings’ in 2012 and drew over 15,000 visitors. In 2017 his epic painting and holosonic sound installation ‘Speaking in Tongues’ was a prominent feature of the Venice Biennale. 

Artist : Phoebe Cummings (b. 1981)
Title : Paleozoic Bouquet
Medium : unfired clay, glass, wood, wire, 

Dimensions: 60 x 25 x 25 cm


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Phoebe Cummings works predominantly using unfired clay to make poetic and performative sculptures and installations that emphasise materiality, fragility, time, creation, loss and decay. Her impressive interventions are often constructed directly on site, allowing an instinctive development of tensions between object and location. Cummings questions what we will carry forward into the future by producing intricate, hand made and exquisitely delicate sculptures based on ancient plants and primitive ritual, imbued with a sense of magic and mysticism. Drawing together elements of English Paganism as well as the aesthetic excess of Baroque and Rococo design, the resultant objects could be considered as dystopian ornaments of a future anthropology or fragile relics of an almost forgotten past.

Cummings is a British artist born in Walsall, England and currently resides in Stafford. Cummings studied ceramics at Brighton University in 2002 before completing an MA in ceramics and glass at the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has undertaken a number of international artist residencies including a six month residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2010. In 2017 she won first place at the inaugural Woman’s Hour Craft Prize with work exhibited at the V&A Museum, before touring to venues around the UK. Cummings was selected as the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2011 and awarded a ceramics fellowship at London’s Camden Arts Centre (2012–13). ‘Supernatural’ was her first solo exhibition at Anima-Mundi. In addition, Cummings’ work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including ‘60|40 Starting Point Series’ at Siobhan Davies Studios, London, ‘Formed Thoughts’ at Jerwood Space, London; and ‘Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design’ at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In 2013, she had a solo show at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery in Honolulu and The Newlyn Art Gallery.

Artist : David Kim Whittaker (b. 1964)
Title : New Sunflowers
Medium : oil and acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 180 x 140 cm


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Most of David Kim Whittaker’s paintings are based upon a metaphysical interpretation of the human head. These portrait portals, are often ambiguous, with the aim of representing the totality of the human condition - both the universal and the empathetic alongside personal experience. The works often juggle dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict, offering a glimpse of simultaneous strength and fragility, conscious and subconscious, masculine and feminine. The paintings express Whittaker’s constant focus on an attempt to express something far greater than oneself. Recent works depict the artists deep sensitivity and increasing unease when confronted with the compounding global tensions of this particlar moment. A dual reflection of hope and warning stares back at us from the frame. 

Whittaker is a British artist born in Cornwall where they  still reside. Exhibitions have been held internationally, notably including a major solo exhibition at the prestigious Fondazione Mudima in Milan in 2017. Works are in numerous museum collections, art foundations and international private collections. Whittaker was further acknowledged in 2011 as the recipient of the Towry Award (First Prize) at the National Open Art Competition.

Artist : Luke Frost (b. 1976)
Title : Neutral Grey & Blue Volts
Medium : acrylic on cavnvas

Dimensions: 102 x 102 cm


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Luke Frost is a British abstract painter living and working in West Cornwall. Despite his notable heritage, as Son of the English painter Anthony Frost and the Grandson of the celebrated Modernist painter Sir Terry Frost, his paintings could be seen to instead echo a formality found in 1960s American hard-edge, post-painterly, abstraction. However Frost has developed his own means of exploring complex colour relationships, be they harmonious or provocative, and their impact on their surroundings alongside an internal and more contemplative space.

Frost began exhibiting in 2003 following studies at Falmouth and Bath Schools of Art. His work was featured in ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at Tate St Ives in 2007 and in 2008 he was awarded a Tate St Ives artist in residency during which time he worked at Porthmeor Studio No. 5, formerly occupied by Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron. His solo exhibition ‘Paintings in Five Dimensions’ was shown at Tate St Ives in 2009. He has since exhibited in Cornwall, London and USA, with essays written on his work by Matthew Collings, Tony Godfrey and Michael Klein.

Artist : Luke Frost (b. 1976)
Title : Pale Brilliant Blue Volts
Medium : acrylic on cavnvas

Dimensions: 102 x 102 cm


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Luke Frost is a British abstract painter living and working in West Cornwall. Despite his notable heritage, as Son of the English painter Anthony Frost and the Grandson of the celebrated Modernist painter Sir Terry Frost, his paintings could be seen to instead echo a formality found in 1960s American hard-edge, post-painterly, abstraction. However Frost has developed his own means of exploring complex colour relationships, be they harmonious or provocative, and their impact on their surroundings alongside an internal and more contemplative space.

Frost began exhibiting in 2003 following studies at Falmouth and Bath Schools of Art. His work was featured in ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at Tate St Ives in 2007 and in 2008 he was awarded a Tate St Ives artist in residency during which time he worked at Porthmeor Studio No. 5, formerly occupied by Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron. His solo exhibition ‘Paintings in Five Dimensions’ was shown at Tate St Ives in 2009. He has since exhibited in Cornwall, London and USA, with essays written on his work by Matthew Collings, Tony Godfrey and Michael Klein.

Artist : Youki Hirakawa (b. 1983)
Title : Untitled (Tear)
Medium : single channel video

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‘Untitled (Tear)’ is a video by Youki Hirakawa documenting a fallen tear drop. As time passes it shows the different phases of the shape of the tear as it dries. Through his still and installation-based video artwork, Hirakawa explores a mysterious and immeasurable sense of time, loss and longing. His imagery is imbued with a melancholic quality, reconnecting a fragile past with a vivid present casting questions over the future. He creates a form of video-poetry which summons the voice of the lost. Hirakawa constructs his artworks as if to reveal hidden memories or narratives contained within the subject, resuscitating sensibilities that may have since been obscured, primarily through progressive human activity.

Hirakawa is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Nagoya, Japan in 1983. He currently lives and works in Toyota, Japan, following a long residency in Berlin, Germany. He was invited to show at the ‘48th International Film Festival Rotterdam’ and ‘65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’ in 2019 and has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Minokamo City Museum, Japan. Hirakawa has also been invited to exhibit in international art festivals including Digital Art Festival Taipei 2017, International Contemporary Art Festival Kaunas in 2016, Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 and Aichi Triennale 2013. His inaugural solo exhibition ‘Secret Fire’ at Anima Mundi was held in 2016 and his follow up ‘A River Under Water’ in 2018. In 2017 he was finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Works are held in numerous public and private collections

Artist : Agnes Treherne (b. 1987)
Title : Bucks Stream
Medium : oil on birch panel
Dimensions : 53 x 61 cm


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Agnes Treherne lives and works in Sussex. Her work is concerned with how our thoughts and articulations are informed by the environments in which we live. She works from the premise that the act of drawing, and the attention it gives to what is being drawn, is fruitful both to the artist and the subject, so that the existence of both is enriched by the other. When there is a figurative element in her paintings and drawings, it is often to convey both connection and dislocation. Her paintings are based on observations of daily life and the landscape which surrounds her, like stills from a film, where time has stopped and imprinted the situation in a refined and eternal light. The characters, when they appear, often seem simultaneously overwhelmed yet integrated offering a profound sense of awe, humility, yet also hope and reassurance within the prosaic yet sublime settings.

Artist : Agnes Treherne (b. 1987)
Title : Cinderhill (1)
Medium : oil on birch panel
Dimensions : 53 x 61 cm


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Agnes Treherne lives and works in Sussex. Her work is concerned with how our thoughts and articulations are informed by the environments in which we live. She works from the premise that the act of drawing, and the attention it gives to what is being drawn, is fruitful both to the artist and the subject, so that the existence of both is enriched by the other. When there is a figurative element in her paintings and drawings, it is often to convey both connection and dislocation. Her paintings are based on observations of daily life and the landscape which surrounds her, like stills from a film, where time has stopped and imprinted the situation in a refined and eternal light. The characters, when they appear, often seem simultaneously overwhelmed yet integrated offering a profound sense of awe, humility, yet also hope and reassurance within the prosaic yet sublime settings.

Artist : Agnes Treherne (b. 1987)
Title : Cinderhill (2)
Medium : oil on birch panel
Dimensions : 53 x 61 cm


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Agnes Treherne lives and works in Sussex. Her work is concerned with how our thoughts and articulations are informed by the environments in which we live. She works from the premise that the act of drawing, and the attention it gives to what is being drawn, is fruitful both to the artist and the subject, so that the existence of both is enriched by the other. When there is a figurative element in her paintings and drawings, it is often to convey both connection and dislocation. Her paintings are based on observations of daily life and the landscape which surrounds her, like stills from a film, where time has stopped and imprinted the situation in a refined and eternal light. The characters, when they appear, often seem simultaneously overwhelmed yet integrated offering a profound sense of awe, humility, yet also hope and reassurance within the prosaic yet sublime settings.

Artist : Joy Wolfenden Brown (b. 1961)
Title : Her Inward Glance
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 52 x 37 cm


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Joy Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar, possessing a raw emotional, honesty. She captures fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality. 

Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She currently lives in Bude, North Cornwall. She graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Evolver prize at The RWA in 2019 and the Judges Choice at the Chaiya Art Award 2023. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide.

Artist : Joy Wolfenden Brown (b. 1961)
Title : If I Rise On The Wings Of The Dawn (Psalm 139 vs 9)
Medium : oil on paper
Dimensions : 33 x 21 cm


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Joy Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar, possessing a raw emotional, honesty. She captures fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality. 

Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She currently lives in Bude, North Cornwall. She graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Evolver prize at The RWA in 2019 and the Judges Choice at the Chaiya Art Award 2023. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide. Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as an for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Evolver Prize at The RWA in 2019 and the Judges Choice at the Chaiya Art Award 2023. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide.

Artist : Joy Wolfenden Brown (b. 1961)
Title : Oceans
Medium : oil on paper
Dimensions : 31 x 21 cm


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Joy Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar, possessing a raw emotional, honesty. She captures fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality. 

Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She currently lives in Bude, North Cornwall. She graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Evolver prize at The RWA in 2019 and the Judges Choice at the Chaiya Art Award 2023. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide.t Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as an for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Evolver Prize at The RWA in 2019 and the Judges Choice at the Chaiya Art Award 2023. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide.

Artist : Joy Wolfenden Brown (b. 1961)
Title : Secret Heart
Medium : oil on board
Dimensions : 42 x 30 cm


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Joy Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar possessing a raw, emotional, honesty. She captures fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality. 

Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She currently lives in Bude, North Cornwall. She graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as an for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Evolver Prize at The RWA in 2019 and the Judges Choice at the Chaiya Art Award 2023. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide.

Artist : Carlos Zapata (b. 1963)
Title : Faith
Medium : polychromed wood
Dimensions : 42 x 30 x 13 cm


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Carlos Zapata predominately makes idiosyncratic carved and painted wooden sculpture alongside mixed media installation. His work deals with many challenging and potent humanist themes including poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet perhaps paradoxically, the overriding characteristics of the work are of emotive empathy and compassion. Zapata’s work belongs to and takes inspiration from folk and tribal artforms from all over the world but specifically from South America, from its indigenous populace and the trade routes and traditions that have fed it over the centuries. Many of his sculptures have evolved from personal experience of living in a foreign land and from his home country where civil issues continue to trouble its people. 

Carlos Zapata is a Colombian artist who currently lives and works near Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. He has exhibited extensively internationally with works held in numerous private and museum collections around the world.

Artist : Carlos Zapata (b. 1963)
Title : Vessel
Medium : polychromed wood
Dimensions : 18 x 27 x 20 cm



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Carlos Zapata predominately makes idiosyncratic carved and painted wooden sculpture alongside mixed media installation. His work deals with many challenging and potent humanist themes including poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet perhaps paradoxically, the overriding characteristics of the work are of emotive empathy and compassion. Zapata’s work belongs to and takes inspiration from folk and tribal artforms from all over the world but specifically from South America, from its indigenous populace and the trade routes and traditions that have fed it over the centuries. Many of his sculptures have evolved from personal experience of living in a foreign land and from his home country where civil issues continue to trouble its people. 

Carlos Zapata is a Colombian artist who currently lives and works near Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. He has exhibited extensively internationally with works held in numerous private and museum collections around the world.

Artist : Sam Lock (b. 1973)
Title : Shadow Is Yours I
Medium : mixed media on canvas
Dimensions : 240 x 120 cm



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Sam Lock’s considered and expressive, often large scale, abstract paintings embrace the principle that change is a process not an event. A meditation on the continual flow and movement both around us and within us inspires each gesture. They are not made with a system or fixed process but through an energy that embraces both change and chance, in a manner that is both organic and unscripted, following its own path until there is a balance between presence and absence. There are silences and hiding places that are both poetic and activating, and a physicality and immediacy, where his aim to ‘submit’ himself to the canvas, eliminates extraneous thought in order to guarantee a purity of response. A response arising through concentration and intuition where thought and action, go hand-in-hand. This is what Lock refers to as the ‘poetry of moments’, of the spiritual nature of now becoming then, and how what started as waves of actions, becomes a forest of memory. Lock is interested in marks, resulting in paintings, that communicate both instantly and slowly - to slow down perception, and to create forms that don’t reveal themselves fully, all at once, through a filling up and emptying of space and surface; traces and echoes exist in a palimpsest, a build-up of painted marks, layers and statements that conceal and reveal, where time becomes held in a concrete way and the painting achieves a physical weight and substance. These layers allow you to swim in and out of the painting, they lead back in time, retaining a mystery and dynamism of the moment rather than a recollection of a misty lost past.

Sam Lock was born in London and now lives and works near Brighton with his studio in a converted industrial unit further up the coast.  Lock studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1997 with MA’s in both Fine Art and Art History. During his training, he won a scholarship to travel to Rome, and explore the relationship between history, archaeology and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.  

Artist : Sam Lock (b. 1973)
Title : Shadow Is Yours II
Medium : mixed media on canvas
Dimensions : 240 x 120 cm



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Sam Lock’s considered and expressive, often large scale, abstract paintings embrace the principle that change is a process not an event. A meditation on the continual flow and movement both around us and within us inspires each gesture. They are not made with a system or fixed process but through an energy that embraces both change and chance, in a manner that is both organic and unscripted, following its own path until there is a balance between presence and absence. There are silences and hiding places that are both poetic and activating, and a physicality and immediacy, where his aim to ‘submit’ himself to the canvas, eliminates extraneous thought in order to guarantee a purity of response. A response arising through concentration and intuition where thought and action, go hand-in-hand. This is what Lock refers to as the ‘poetry of moments’, of the spiritual nature of now becoming then, and how what started as waves of actions, becomes a forest of memory. Lock is interested in marks, resulting in paintings, that communicate both instantly and slowly - to slow down perception, and to create forms that don’t reveal themselves fully, all at once, through a filling up and emptying of space and surface; traces and echoes exist in a palimpsest, a build-up of painted marks, layers and statements that conceal and reveal, where time becomes held in a concrete way and the painting achieves a physical weight and substance. These layers allow you to swim in and out of the painting, they lead back in time, retaining a mystery and dynamism of the moment rather than a recollection of a misty lost past.

Sam Lock was born in London and now lives and works near Brighton with his studio in a converted industrial unit further up the coast.  Lock studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1997 with MA’s in both Fine Art and Art History. During his training, he won a scholarship to travel to Rome, and explore the relationship between history, archaeology and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.  

Artist : Gabriel Tendai Choto (b. 1995)
Title : Stranding
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 61 x 122 cm



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Gabriel Tendai Choto’s artwork combines the twin disciplines of printmaking and painting. Through his singular technique Choto seeks new pathways into the painted image by taking cues from the surface quality produced by the printmaking process. His evolving, experimental practice involves layering painted areas of naturalism over the delicate compositional architecture of etching, resulting in paintings where physical presence and absence imply a metaphoric liminal state. Sensitive and intimate, these images include close family members, depicting quiet moments of contemplation or affectionate domestic scenes taken from old photographs, increasingly progressing in to self portraits where through constructed situations the artist examines his own identity. Choto’s intimate paintings draw on themes of home, pride, identity diaspora, change and personal as well as cultural fragility.

Choto was born in 1995 in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was raised in Bradford, Yorkshire and currently lives and works in London. After completing his Diploma in Art and Design at Leeds Arts University in 2012, Choto gained a BAFA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art (UAL), London, in 2014 and more recently has completed an MFA at Central St Martins, London. Selected group exhibitions include FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2018); Flock, GX Gallery, London, UK (2017); Blxckout Revolution: The Exhibition, 198 Gallery, London, UK (2017); BAME, Hotel Elephant Gallery, London, UK (2016); and Long Live the New Flesh, Tower Gallery, London, UK (2015). In 2018, Choto was selected for the Clyde & Co Art Award. Choto’s debut solo exhibition at Anima Mundi featured in 2021 and most recently he has been personally invited by Yinka Shonibare to submit for the 2021 RA Summer Exhibition.

Artist : Malcolm Pate (b. 1998)
Title : Flock (human silhouettes are flocked like a murmuration of starlings)
Medium : custom software video



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Malcolm Pate is a Canadian artist whose work explores the evocative nature of light. Pate uses naturally occurring and generated light to create ethereal echoes of reality. Employing cognitive neuroscientific theories of associative memory, visual object identification, and pattern recognition, he seeks to distil each subject to their core essence - a ghostly reflection of the world we perceive. His work explores where simplified patterns and systems bring personal memories into focus, evoking a unique response in the viewer, one that often defies description in words but instead conjures connection and feeling. As we face a future where nature as we know it may be little more than a memory, Pate endeavours to discover pathways to maintain our connection to the peace it provides.

A graduate of fine art at Chelsea College of Art, Pate’s work has been shown internationally at Aomori Museum of Art (Japan), Barbican Art Gallery (UK), Eltuek Arts Centre (Canada), Fosun Foundation (China), Louise Blouin Foundation Gallery (UK), McIntosh Gallery (Canada), New Museum (USA), and the Southbank Centre (UK), among others. 

Artist : Jamie Mills (b. 1983)
Title : Sentinal Absolve
Medium : rubber, cotton skrim, thread, beeswax
Dimensions : 21.5 x 13.5 x 4 cm

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Jamie Mills’ practice is underpinned by an investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments – referencing both internal and external landscapes. These concerns are reinforced by an interdisciplinary approach to working and are made manifest through the renderings of materials often sourced or retrieved via immersion into nature or borderlands The term ‘gestalt’ refers to a concept within psychotherapeutic fields, inferring that the nature of a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mills’ employment of the mediums of photography, sound and mark-making can be read in this sense whereby a reality is constructed not by the sole surface representation of any individual element alone, but instead there is a sense that the artists reality is presented through the relationships and the spaces between elements. In other terms, it is work that requires both on one hand a stepping away from, and on the other an immersion into, in order to extract an empathetic understanding of the essence of the work that presides from both a conscious and subconscious framework of mind. Universally inherent within his process of rendering, there is a conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or ‘essence’) and on the other, control (or the relinquishing of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies at times a liminal status. In this sense Mills’ “intuitively composed” sound works, and his images or assemblages become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.

Artist : Jamie Mills (b. 1983)
Title : Sentinel Refuge
Medium : rubber, cotton skrim, thread, beeswax
Dimensions :  32 × 21 × 6.5 cm

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Jamie Mills’ practice is underpinned by an investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments – referencing both internal and external landscapes. These concerns are reinforced by an interdisciplinary approach to working and are made manifest through the renderings of materials often sourced or retrieved via immersion into nature or borderlands The term ‘gestalt’ refers to a concept within psychotherapeutic fields, inferring that the nature of a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mills’ employment of the mediums of photography, sound and mark-making can be read in this sense whereby a reality is constructed not by the sole surface representation of any individual element alone, but instead there is a sense that the artists reality is presented through the relationships and the spaces between elements. In other terms, it is work that requires both on one hand a stepping away from, and on the other an immersion into, in order to extract an empathetic understanding of the essence of the work that presides from both a conscious and subconscious framework of mind. Universally inherent within his process of rendering, there is a conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or ‘essence’) and on the other, control (or the relinquishing of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies at times a liminal status. In this sense Mills’ “intuitively composed” sound works, and his images or assemblages become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.

Artist : Jamie Mills (b. 1983)
Title : Open Sentry 
Medium : rubber, cotton skrim, thread, beeswax
Dimensions : 58 × 16 × 11.5 cm



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Jamie Mills’ practice is underpinned by an investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments – referencing both internal and external landscapes. These concerns are reinforced by an interdisciplinary approach to working and are made manifest through the renderings of materials often sourced or retrieved via immersion into nature or borderlands The term ‘gestalt’ refers to a concept within psychotherapeutic fields, inferring that the nature of a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mills’ employment of the mediums of photography, sound and mark-making can be read in this sense whereby a reality is constructed not by the sole surface representation of any individual element alone, but instead there is a sense that the artists reality is presented through the relationships and the spaces between elements. In other terms, it is work that requires both on one hand a stepping away from, and on the other an immersion into, in order to extract an empathetic understanding of the essence of the work that presides from both a conscious and subconscious framework of mind. Universally inherent within his process of rendering, there is a conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or ‘essence’) and on the other, control (or the relinquishing of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies at times a liminal status. In this sense Mills’ “intuitively composed” sound works, and his images or assemblages become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.

Artist : Jamie Mills (b. 1983)
Title : Bandaged Object (A Device for Holding and Waiting)
Medium : distemper on canvas, mixed fabric, thread, wood, fastenings, stone
Dimensions : 71 x 12 x 11 cm



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Jamie Mills’ practice is underpinned by an investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments – referencing both internal and external landscapes. These concerns are reinforced by an interdisciplinary approach to working and are made manifest through the renderings of materials often sourced or retrieved via immersion into nature or borderlands The term ‘gestalt’ refers to a concept within psychotherapeutic fields, inferring that the nature of a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mills’ employment of the mediums of photography, sound and mark-making can be read in this sense whereby a reality is constructed not by the sole surface representation of any individual element alone, but instead there is a sense that the artists reality is presented through the relationships and the spaces between elements. In other terms, it is work that requires both on one hand a stepping away from, and on the other an immersion into, in order to extract an empathetic understanding of the essence of the work that presides from both a conscious and subconscious framework of mind. Universally inherent within his process of rendering, there is a conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or ‘essence’) and on the other, control (or the relinquishing of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies at times a liminal status. In this sense Mills’ “intuitively composed” sound works, and his images or assemblages become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.

Artist : Jonathan Michael Ray (b. 1984)
Title : The Widow’s Gift 
Medium : stained glass fragments and lead in LED backlit frame
Dimensions : 56.5 x 43.5 cm



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Jonathan Michael Ray’s ‘mono no aware’ artworks examine the multilayered histories, fictions and beliefs assigned to artefacts, materials and the places he encounters. A practice comprising of stained glass, photography, sculpture, print, drawing, video and installation, much of his work is deeply connected to his surroundings. He regularly uses found objects and images imbued with their own histories, as well as material direct from the landscape, appropriating their symbolism while creating a new context and meaning. By layering and combining material, he is interested in looking beyond the surface of a purely physical existence and breaking down the institutions by which we are taught to see and experience the world. His work alludes to the sublime power that inanimate material and objects can contain when we give them space, time and authority to do so. 

Jonathan Michael Ray was born in High Wycombe, UK and has been based in West Cornwall since 2018. He studied at Nottingham Trent in 2007 and at Slade School of Fine Art in 2016. In 2022 Ray’s work was the subject of a two person exhibition alongside Willeminha Barnes Graham at Tate St Ives. In 2023, following his solo exhibition “Long Way Home” at Anima Mundi, Ray was commissioned to produce a new sculpture for Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, which the garden has since acquired. Ray’s sculpture ‘Dark Lith’ is on a long term display at The New Art Centre, Roche Court. In addition he co-curated “Ud Rocashaas”, a group exhibition at Hweg Gallery, Penzance.

Artist : Jonathan Michael Ray (b. 1984)
Title : The Astrologer’s Misfortune
Medium : stained glass fragments and lead in LED backlit frame
Dimensions : 56.5 x 43.5 cm



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Jonathan Michael Ray’s ‘mono no aware’ artworks examine the multilayered histories, fictions and beliefs assigned to artefacts, materials and the places he encounters. A practice comprising of stained glass, photography, sculpture, print, drawing, video and installation, much of his work is deeply connected to his surroundings. He regularly uses found objects and images imbued with their own histories, as well as material direct from the landscape, appropriating their symbolism while creating a new context and meaning. By layering and combining material, he is interested in looking beyond the surface of a purely physical existence and breaking down the institutions by which we are taught to see and experience the world. His work alludes to the sublime power that inanimate material and objects can contain when we give them space, time and authority to do so. 

Jonathan Michael Ray was born in High Wycombe, UK and has been based in West Cornwall since 2018. He studied at Nottingham Trent in 2007 and at Slade School of Fine Art in 2016. In 2022 Ray’s work was the subject of a two person exhibition alongside Willeminha Barnes Graham at Tate St Ives. In 2023, following his solo exhibition “Long Way Home” at Anima Mundi, Ray was commissioned to produce a new sculpture for Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, which the garden has since acquired. Ray’s sculpture ‘Dark Lith’ is on a long term display at The New Art Centre, Roche Court. In addition he co-curated “Ud Rocashaas”, a group exhibition at Hweg Gallery, Penzance.

Artist : Jonathan Michael Ray (b. 1984)
Title : Out of this World
Medium : stained glass fragments and lead in LED backlit frame
Dimensions : 57.5 x 43.5 cm



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Jonathan Michael Ray’s ‘mono no aware’ artworks examine the multilayered histories, fictions and beliefs assigned to artefacts, materials and the places he encounters. A practice comprising of stained glass, photography, sculpture, print, drawing, video and installation, much of his work is deeply connected to his surroundings. He regularly uses found objects and images imbued with their own histories, as well as material direct from the landscape, appropriating their symbolism while creating a new context and meaning. By layering and combining material, he is interested in looking beyond the surface of a purely physical existence and breaking down the institutions by which we are taught to see and experience the world. His work alludes to the sublime power that inanimate material and objects can contain when we give them space, time and authority to do so. 

Jonathan Michael Ray was born in High Wycombe, UK and has been based in West Cornwall since 2018. He studied at Nottingham Trent in 2007 and at Slade School of Fine Art in 2016. In 2022 Ray’s work was the subject of a two person exhibition alongside Willeminha Barnes Graham at Tate St Ives. In 2023, following his solo exhibition “Long Way Home” at Anima Mundi, Ray was commissioned to produce a new sculpture for Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, which the garden has since acquired. Ray’s sculpture ‘Dark Lith’ is on a long term display at The New Art Centre, Roche Court. In addition he co-curated “Ud Rocashaas”, a group exhibition at Hweg Gallery, Penzance.

Artist : Arthur Lanyon (b. 1985)
Title : Mouth of Conduit
Medium : oil, oil stick, charcoal, gesso, spray paint, collage on linen
Dimensions : 217 x 170 cm



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Arthur Lanyon paintings combine intuitive figurative motifs with an emotive, gestural, abstracted language. His energetic works are sited on a physical and metaphysical cross roads, like a belay between numerous visual and emotional pinnacles. They offer a progressive link between the outside world, the inner architecture of the brain, altered states of consciousness, memory and the unencumbered essence of child’s drawing. 

Arthur Lanyon is a British artist born in Leicester, England in 1985. He lives and works from a studio near Penzance, Cornwall. Born in to an artistic family, his father was the painter Matthew Lanyon and his grandfather the celebrated, influential and world renowned modernist painter Peter Lanyon. He won the Hans Brinker Painting Award in Amsterdam in 2007 and gained a first class degree in Fine Art from Cardiff University in 2008. Upon graduating he was featured in Saatchi’s ‘New Sensations’ exhibition. In 2014, his work was in the long-list for the Aesthetica Art Prize and was included in the award’s published anthology. His debut Anima Mundi solo exhibition ‘Return to Whale’ opened in 2016, which was followed by ‘White Chalk Lines in 2018, ‘Arcade Laundry’ in 2020 and ‘Coda for an Obol’ in 2022. Works have been exhibited extensively, notably including Untitled Art Fair in Miami; Zona Maco, Mexico City; the Saatchi Gallery London; The House of St Barnabas, London; CGK, Copenhagen; Tat Art, Barcelona and Herrick Gallery, Mayfair. Arthur Lanyon paintings are held in private collections worldwide. 

Artist : Simon Hitchens (b. 1967)
Title : More Than Human 1
Medium : rock, wax, resin
Dimensions : 28 x 50 x 36 cm



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Simon Hitchens’ work explores the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human, as a means to learning about Mankind’s relationship with impermanence. The material backbone of his work is rock in its raw and natural state. This is not carved and polished but plucked from the rock face or quarry floor. He remains acutely aware of the historical significance that stone has as the prime material to make sculpture, and as a sculptor is challenged to make art that contributes to this debate. As a climber he maintains an intimate relationship with rock, and is acutely aware that geologically it is the very material that supports us upon the planet. In the age of the Anthropogenic it seems pertinent to question how we comprehend the geological and human worlds as united, interconnected even. Hitchens believes there is increasingly a disconnect between these two worlds. which is harmful not only to the planet but also our psyche. Consequently, rock is the conceptual focus of his work and typically the material backbone within it. His work questions differences between animate and inanimate, more specifically rock and flesh, mountain and body; exploring themes of transience and transcendence. He makes post-human hybrid forms that negotiate a numinous space somewhere between rock and flesh: a line of inquiry into the nature of being.

Simon Hitchens graduated in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 1990 and his work has been exhibited around the world since then. He frequently exhibits in solo and group exhibitions, undertaking private commissions and numerous largescale public commissions. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1998, is an RWA Academician and is the fourth generation of artists in his family.
 

Artist : Simon Hitchens (b. 1967)
Title : A Certain Reciprocity 1
Medium : rock, wax, resin
Dimensions : 22 x 38 x 17 cm



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Simon Hitchens’ work explores the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human, as a means to learning about Mankind’s relationship with impermanence. The material backbone of his work is rock in its raw and natural state. This is not carved and polished but plucked from the rock face or quarry floor. He remains acutely aware of the historical significance that stone has as the prime material to make sculpture, and as a sculptor is challenged to make art that contributes to this debate. As a climber he maintains an intimate relationship with rock, and is acutely aware that geologically it is the very material that supports us upon the planet. In the age of the Anthropogenic it seems pertinent to question how we comprehend the geological and human worlds as united, interconnected even. Hitchens believes there is increasingly a disconnect between these two worlds. which is harmful not only to the planet but also our psyche. Consequently, rock is the conceptual focus of his work and typically the material backbone within it. His work questions differences between animate and inanimate, more specifically rock and flesh, mountain and body; exploring themes of transience and transcendence. He makes post-human hybrid forms that negotiate a numinous space somewhere between rock and flesh: a line of inquiry into the nature of being.

Simon Hitchens graduated in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 1990 and his work has been exhibited around the world since then. He frequently exhibits in solo and group exhibitions, undertaking private commissions and numerous largescale public commissions. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1998, is an RWA Academician and is the fourth generation of artists in his family.

Artist : Simon Hitchens (b. 1967)
Title : A Certain Reciprocity 2
Medium : rock, wax, resin
Dimensions : 17 x 45 x 34 cm

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Simon Hitchens’ work explores the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human, as a means to learning about Mankind’s relationship with impermanence. The material backbone of his work is rock in its raw and natural state. This is not carved and polished but plucked from the rock face or quarry floor. He remains acutely aware of the historical significance that stone has as the prime material to make sculpture, and as a sculptor is challenged to make art that contributes to this debate. As a climber he maintains an intimate relationship with rock, and is acutely aware that geologically it is the very material that supports us upon the planet. In the age of the Anthropogenic it seems pertinent to question how we comprehend the geological and human worlds as united, interconnected even. Hitchens believes there is increasingly a disconnect between these two worlds. which is harmful not only to the planet but also our psyche. Consequently, rock is the conceptual focus of his work and typically the material backbone within it. His work questions differences between animate and inanimate, more specifically rock and flesh, mountain and body; exploring themes of transience and transcendence. He makes post-human hybrid forms that negotiate a numinous space somewhere between rock and flesh: a line of inquiry into the nature of being.

Simon Hitchens graduated in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 1990 and his work has been exhibited around the world since then. He frequently exhibits in solo and group exhibitions, undertaking private commissions and numerous largescale public commissions. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1998, is an RWA Academician and is the fourth generation of artists in his family.