Galleries - April 2025

Press Release Georgia Gendall Heat Between 12 April – 15 June 2025 Kestle Barton Manaccan Helston Cornwall TR12 6HU 01326 231 811 info@kestlebarton.co.uk www.kestlebarton.co.uk About the artist Georgia Gendall’s (b.1991) practice is rooted in the rural landscape of Cornwall – where she grew up and now lives and works – Georgia uses event structures, sculptures, performance, video and social practice to bring people together through multi-sensory encounters that explore how the art intervention can draw attention to, subvert, celebrate or disrupt the familiar. Recent solo/group exhibitions/events/ commissions, residences include: Tender Acts , Penryn Campus with Field Notes, 2024 - 2025, Wysing Arts Centre 2024 - 2025 Artist in Residence, Stokkøyart, Norway (2024), Camden Worm Charming , Camden Art Centre, London, (2023), Falmouth Worm Charming Championships , (2021 - 2024); Allotment Club , Penryn (2023); Exeter Open Contemporary, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter (2022); Stokkøyart, Norway (2022), Bothy Project, Scotland (2022), Thanks for the Apple s, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth (2021); When was the last time you lay down to look at the sky? Whitegold, St Austell (2020); In Other Words, Darling , Kestle Barton, Lizard, Cornwall & Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall (2019); also, also, also , Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable (2018). Georgia runs Allotment Club ; an artists led project space situated within an allotment in Penryn, Cornwall. She is the founder of Falmouth Worm Charming Championships ; an annual community worm charming event in Falmouth Cornwall and she runs Forced Collaboration : an online cross disciplinary instructions based collaborative platform, aiming to forge relationships between artists from different locations. www.georgiagendall.co.uk 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 12 April – 1 November 2025: Tuesday – Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, 10:30am – 5pm. Image Top: Georgia Gendall, Heat between , Milk Photographs 2, 2025 Image Bottom: Georgia Gendall, Salt lick , Falmouth Art Gallery, Photo by Steve Tanner 2021