The Cornwall College Summer Show provides students of the BA(Hons) Art & Design Practice programme with the opportunity to celebrate and showcase their artwork here at the museum.

Various pieces of art displayed in the exhibition have been made in response to the museum’s collections. The artists have used this space to explore themes like home, place, and personal expression.

On display will be work produced in various mediums, from ceramics, painting, digital art, textiles to photography.

The students took as their starting point this thought by the artist Grayson Perry:

“It has become common practice in recent years for contemporary artists to make an ‘intervention’ into a historic museum. When an artist is invited to ‘respond’ to the collection it is an artificially induced version of the process that has empowered world culture forever: Makers of artefacts have been ‘responding’ to objects made by earlier generations since the beginning of craft. I think of the history of culture as an infinitely complex game of ‘Chinese whispers’, where images and ideas are changed by passing through the hands of various craftsmen. Filtering them through a series of personal experiences, each idea becomes something new, not necessarily because of some revolutionary inspiration but because creativity is often a series of innocent mistakes.” Grayson Perry – The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman.