Galleries - September 2024

Press Release Naomi Frears Night After Night 7 September – 2 November 2024 Kestle Barton Manaccan Helston Cornwall TR12 6HU 01326 231 811 info@kestlebarton.co.uk www.kestlebarton.co.uk About the artist Naomi Frears is based in the Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Cornwall. Her practice includes work with film and video, as well as printmaking, painting, and collaborative curatorial projects. Recent solo shows and film commissions include The Days of the Future Stand Before Us , Harbour House Gallery, Devon, The Lands of the Free , a flagpole and notice board somewhere in Lincolnshire, Men Falling (Artist Moving Image Commission, Exeter Phoenix) and In Other Words , a film commission for RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter), Looking for Ray , Kestle Barton, and Somebody Loves Us All , a film commission and collaboration with poet Ella Frears, Bold Tendencies, Peckham. Recent group shows include Sound Solid Liquid Light , Two Queens, Leicester, CLUSTER, a collaborative work with SJ Blackmore and Alice Mahoney for Flamm, Bridge the Tamar , Mirror Gallery, Plymouth, and Pebble/Shoe at Kingsgate Project Space, London. Frears co-curated Thanks For The Apples at Falmouth Art Gallery with Ben Sanderson and showed the work of Dean Knight in Shame, that in an exhibition in her studio. She undertook a large painting commission for Hospital Rooms at Bethlem Royal Hospital, London and her work appears regularly on the cover of the London Review of Books . Frears’ work is held in public and private collections including The Government Art Collection and in 2023 she was nominated for the Film London Jarman Award . Frears teaches art students at Falmouth University and among other projects, she is currently making new work as a guest of Britten Pears Arts in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Top image: Naomi Frears, Hello Stranger) , 61 x 61 cm, Oil on canvas. Bottom image: Naomi Frears, Song of the Night , 46 x 46 cm, Oil on canvas. About the venue Kestle Barton is an ancient Cornish farmstead situated above the Helford River. Following an award- winning conservation and conversion project the beautiful old farm buildings have new uses, one of the barns becoming an elegant gallery that opened in 2010. From early April to late October each year, the gallery, garden and wildflower meadow beyond, hosts a programme of three free exhibitions and a number of other events. Surrounding barns and the old farmhouse have been converted into stylish and comfortable holiday accommodation, all profits from which go towards funding the exhibition and event programme. Open 23 March – 2 November 2024: Tuesday – Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, 10:30am – 5pm.