Back Lane West

Knitted Together was a participatory project for Shallal artists and artists in our community to get together and explore exciting new materials and ways of working, focusing on what we can reuse and what we can make from natural and sustainable materials.

Artists included: Sam While, Sammy Avery, Mads De Lord, Karen Mitchel, Jodi O'Brien, Charlie Lyne, Janet Holland, Angie Tonkin, Pam Wilson, Zoe Wilton, Eden Harrison, Julie Jones, Kyle Coleman, Erin Gatrell Armstrong, Yvonne Hingston, Julia Wonnacott, Jane Parfitt, Rita Baker, Noel Hargreaves, 9 young people.

Underworld is a project by Shallal Studios artists exploring bats and seaweed. Over eight months 74 artists and 85 school children researched and developed work through a series of workshops that explored Cornwall’s natural world - low beneath the surface of the sea and high into the night sky. The multi-sensory project was led by the artists’ research, coming together through two exhibitions at Kresen Kernow & Falmouth Art Gallery, an e-book and a printed zine. 

Shallal Sketchbooks is an ongoing community art project involving hundreds of people in the UK and overseas over the past five years. Participants are sent a sketchbook in the post and after three months they return the full sketchbook to Shallal to be included in a growing travelling library.

We are grateful to our social prescribing partners Imagine If CIC for helping Sketchbooks to carry on through the current pandemic.

Our 2019 Back Lane West cross-art residency ended with a sharing event on 31st October

The walls were filled with art made during the month-long residency including collaborative sculpture, drawings, painting, photography, films, electronic music and poetry. The exhibition included shadow puppets made by children at Red River School in Redruth as part of the project. This was our first Back Lane West residency to include artists from our new Shallal Studio at Krowji creative hub in Redruth. 

As part of our Studio Foundations Back Lane West residency in October 2019, Shallal Dance Theatre was fortunate enough to work with light artist Peter Freeman, researching movement in response to Peter's immersive coloured light.