Exhibitions

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Welcome: David Abbott
Gallery Feature The inputs may be mundane or transcendent, but the created moment is a quiet, focused expansion of reality out of which all the work gets made. David is interested in folk song and lore, how it locates and defines people inside a landscape, and centres them – through the evocations... Read more

In Spring
Group Show CIRCLE’S distinct style is shaped by a tribe of artists and artisans who live and work in country and coastal places - in short, nature. We are showing a selection of works by artists who live surrounded by an expanse of land and sea. As you will see, so many... Read more

Past

WE ARE GOING TOWARDS THE SEA
Floor 2 + Online 16 Apr - 14 May 2022 Last summer, painter Zoe Benbow and conceptual artist Sally Hampson joined John O Carroll for a week in North Cornwall. This exhibition is a paean to the Cornish coastline and the sea.

Like so many people for so many reasons, both Sally, John and Zoe are bewitched by the sea. The sea is both mother and mirror, the inbreathe and expiration, the leaving and returning - artists and poets have always felt the sea is a conduit for the imagination, its euphonious sound seeping deep into their psyche. Read more

In Winter
Group Show 21 Dec 2021 - 19 Mar 2022 Circle In Winter is a selection of works inspired by the natural landscape from our core and guest artists and makers. This rotating group show will take place in the gallery and online. Read more

It's a small world
Annual Winter Selection | Floor 2 10 - 31 Dec 2021 CIRCLE is pleased to present 'It's a Small World' exhibition, which will take place in the gallery and online.

'It's a Small World ' invites our core contemporary artists working in any media to present works on a small scale. Artworks will range from painting, photography, ceramics, works on paper and original prints.

Exhibiting for the first time with CIRCLE are five newly represented artists, including Robyn Litchfield, David Abbott, Maria Flloyd, Robert Baggerly and Kerim Demirkan. Read more

NATURECULTURES
Thomas Duggan 22 Nov - 31 Dec 2021 Thomas’ body of work ‘Naturecultures’ is informed by a theoretical study and hybridity between the human-hand and the self-assembling abilities of more-than-human worlds.
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Welcome: Robyn Litchfield
Floor 1 + Online 5 Nov - 31 Dec 2021 CIRCLE are delighted to welcome Robyn Litchfield to the gallery. Robyn’s paintings are representations of sublime encounters with places; pristine and untouched. Drawing from archival material and personal documents relating to the early exploration and colonisation of New Zealand Litchfield aims to reimagine and examine the experience of forays into a hitherto unknown space. Read more

Ben Cook: Neoprene Landscapes
Floor 1 + Online 1 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Ben’s neoprene landscapes, created especially for CIRCLE, recycle old neoprene wetsuits that would be headed to landfill, into ‘found landscapes’. The works reference the tradition of landscape art in the south west, whilst providing a fresh perspective inspired by surf culture and concerns for the environment. He works across many... Read more

In Autumn
Group Show 30 Sep - 20 Nov 2021 Circle In Autumn - a new show of rotating artworks inspired by the natural landscape from our core group, guest artists and makers. Read more

Jillian Edelstein: WATER RATS
Floor 1 and Online 16 - 30 Sep 2021 During the Coronavirus lockdown, ten strangers of wildly different ages, backgrounds, ethnicities draw closer as they become a motley crew of outlaws swimming sometimes illegally in London’s wild cold waters. They escape each day as conspirators in the untamed parts of an urban jungle. Read more

Tony Wilson: Turn Turn Turn
Floor 2 16 - 30 Sep 2021 CIRCLE are very pleased to have the opportunity of showing examples of Tony Wilsons beautiful visual diaries, watercolour sketches and paintings which chronicle his daily life. Tony is a revelatory visual diarist in the mould of artists like William Blake, Frida Kahlo, Charlotte Solomon and singer songwriter Joni Mitchell to name but a few. As well as conventional landscape paintings and roundels depicting pastoral village life. Wilson, in Hockney vein, paints 360 degree panoramas - huge spherical acrylic bands like lampshades hang lopsidedly from the ceiling: this eccentric format illustrates scenes of tony’s home and garden. Read more

AUGUST Online: Mimi Robson
Smple studies made with humble tools 12 - 31 Aug 2021 Born in Somerset in 1991, Mimi graduated from Falmouth University in 2013 with a BA Cons in Fine Art. Since then she has worked along renewed Printmaker John Howard. Specialising in both etching and mono printing, Mimi creates collections of work that are a balance discipline and spontaneity. Her work,... Read more

Joni Sternbach
A Selection of New Limited Edition Prints Now Showing On Floor 1 10 Aug - 21 Sep 2021 Posing on rocky outcrops, in front of uprooted trees, or on thick mats of woody flotsam, Sternbach’s surfers inhabit strange landscapes. The best of Sternbach’s photographs convey insistent longing. They are about relationships – the relationship between surfer and board, between human and landscape, between photographer and subject, and between the surfers themselves…she has discovered a new sort of home – a place without walls, defined only by belonging and the physicality of existence. Read more

A PLACE OF PASSAGE
NICHOLAS ARROYAVE-PORTELA, HELEN BOOTH , EMILY CROOKSHANK 7 - 31 Aug 2021 The gallery is delighted to announce that we will for the first time be showing work from celebrated British abstract artist Helen Booth, whose latest oil paintings are the result of a recent residency in Iceland and depart from the mark mapping typical in her practice. The pre-Columbian pottery style of British-born artist Nicholas Arroyave-Portela derives from his Latin American roots; using materials from the earth, the artist has produced an incredible body of work over the past two decades informed by his experience of migration. Printmaker Emily Crookshank, who explores line and form with a tonally minimal palette and who, since relocating to Scotland has mastered the craft of etching, and in the process discovered the limitless nature of printmaking.

Unifying all of the artists’ works is the influence of nature, and the use of natural materials to create original art forms that allude to heritage, the passing of time, place, and connection through being. Read more

Welcome: Ben Barrell
1 Aug - 21 Sep 2021 Ben takes the essence of a movement and creates a moment of stillness. So, it is fitting that he chooses to work with materials that exist both in liquid and solid form - concrete, resin and bronze. Ben makes the initial maquettes – the small models that will lead eventually... Read more

Pleasure-go-round
Simon Gaiger and Bernard Irwin | Floor 2 3 - 31 Jul 2021 Openly decorative and anxiety free: In these paintings and coloured sculptures we are reminded of the guiltless museum art of 60’s America and the post Matissean paintings of Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland whose shapes were a prop for colour. Nolan said in 1969 “I want to have colour be the origin of painting” - like Noland, Irwin and Gaigers works tease us with gorgeous colour - formal hedonism. Read more

IN SUMMER
Group Exhibition 21 Jun - 21 Sep 2021 CIRCLE’S distinct style is shaped by a tribe of artists and artisans who live and work in country and coastal places - in short, nature. We are showing a selection of works by artists who live surrounded by an expanse of land and sea. As you will see, so many... Read more

LIGHT OVER LAND
Sarah Woods | Floor 1 5 - 30 Jun 2021 Throughout June Circle are showing a selection of paintings and etching prints by Sarah Woods which are inspired by dusk and dawn along the coast. Read more

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT
Group Exhibition | Floor 2 5 - 30 Jun 2021 How better to celebrate the end of lockdown than by paying a lighthearted homage to our canine companions. Artists throughout history, have always painted and portrayed dogs and at Circle we have asked our core artisans, sculptors, painters and photographers to contribute to the hang in the upstairs gallery. Read more

REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Adam Bridgland | Floor 1 5 - 30 Jun 2021 RCA graduate and member of the fabulous Jealous print space, Adam Bridgland’s work radiates positivity. Always fresh, always witty - to own a Bridgland print is to own a snippet of common truth. Read more

Welcome: Rod Nelson
Floor 1 12 - 31 May 2021 The woodblock artist Rod Nelson is fascinated by the movement of water, it’s constant undulation, the moment that water breaks to spray and the play of light on its surface. He works to capture its many moods in these innovative and dynamic prints.
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MIND THE GAP
Elin Hughes and Spencer Shakespeare | Floor 2 3 - 31 May 2021 Both these artists have presented new works which remind us that the illusion of lightness in painting or patterning is achieved by careful consideration of negative space. Read more

The Tree Circle | Online
a celebration of spring and the life cycle of trees 12 - 30 Apr 2021 During this long isolated winter, our artists who live in the West country and Wales have turned away from the coastal gales and found their muse in the kindly company of birdsong and trees. The tree is our mirror, the most potent and universally loved symbol of life, death and... Read more

Art Focus: Maxim Hastings
12 - 26 Apr 2021 Maxim sources windblown and discarded cuts of fallen trees, branches and crusty hollows of bark from his locality. Each vessel is hand worked and unique. His bowls are by definition utilitarian - made for containing. Maxim owns the practicality of a craftsman - the artist’s sculptural purity of form needs... Read more

Amy Wright
New paintings now showing on floor 1 | Spring 2021 12 Apr - 18 Jun 2021 In the paintings of Australian artist Amy Wright the viewers eye is constantly moving about the picture plain – moving from one succulent patch of foliage to another, hovering, unable to find a resting place – we are left in suspension. Her colour palette is predominately warm, bringing to mind the flushed putty colours of the Bloomsbury Group painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Read more

Moving Through Landscape
5 Apr - 3 May 2021 Cornwall-based artist Tony Plant is renowned for creating vast works on beaches, inevitably they are washed away by the tide. In the studio he paints, sketches and creates quirky assemblages constructed of lines and pattern, layers of paint, assembled canvas and reclaimed wood. His work is a wonderful celebration of the ever-changing coastal environment and a reminder that impermanence can be treasured. Read more

In Spring
Group Exhibition 20 Mar - 18 Jun 2021 Circle In Spring - a bright new show of work inspired by the natural landscape from our core and guest artists and makers. Read more

Bob Aldous
New paintings on silk and canvas 4 - 31 Mar 2021 There are many artists from the canon of art history that Bob Aldous eloquently cites in relation to his work. Some are influences, other artists mirror his own psyche and preoccupations. Tiepolo and Turner, Tapies and Tillyer all hold sway but lets look at the intrinsic nature of the paintings, performance and poetry of the man himself.

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CIRCLE Winter
Group Exhibition 20 Dec 2020 - 20 Mar 2021 Circle winter mix highlights the latest works by our core group and guest artists, featuring abstract and natural landscapes, balanced with sculpture, ceramic and photography. Read more

Amy Wright
Art Focus | Floor 2 8 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 In the paintings of Australian artist Amy Wright the viewers eye is constantly moving about the picture plain – moving from one succulent patch of foliage to another, hovering, unable to find a resting place – we are left in suspension. Her colour palette is predominately warm, bringing to mind... Read more

Clouds & Reflections
Jelena Sredanović | Online 1 - 31 Jul 2020 Jelena Sredanović is an artist born in Novi Sad, Serbia and was the winner of the Great Seal Award 2010, the prize which was established in 1963 and represents one of the oldest and most prestigious awards for graphic art in Serbia today. She won second prize at the Walter... Read more

CIRCLE Autumn
Group Exhibition 21 Jun - 19 Dec 2020 A curated group exhibition featuring a variety of latest works by our core group and guest artists, featuring abstract and natural landscapes, balanced with sculpture, ceramic and photography. CIRCLE’S distinct style is shaped by a tribe of artists and artisans who live and work in country and coastal places - in short, nature. Read more

CIRCLE Summer
Group Exhibition 20 Jun - 22 Sep 2020 CIRCLE’S distinct style is shaped by a tribe of artists and artisans who live and work in country and coastal places - in short, nature. We are showing a selection of works by artists who live surrounded by an expanse of land and sea. As you will see, so many... Read more

CIRCLE Spring
Group Exhibition 20 Mar - 19 Jun 2020 A curated group exhibition featuring a variety of latest artworks by our core group and guest artists, featuring abstract and natural landscapes, balanced with sculpture, ceramic and photography. Read more

Circle Winter
Group Exhibition 21 Dec 2019 - 19 Mar 2020 CIRCLE’S distinct style is shaped by a tribe of artists and artisans who live and work in country and coastal places - in short, nature. We are showing a selection of works by artists who live surrounded by an expanse of land and sea. As you will see, so many... Read more

Travelling Light
A Summer Travel Show | Floor 1 24 Aug - 24 Sep 2019 IRCLE’s summer travel show promises to be a visual delight. No cliche’d mediterranean watercolours painted from villa gardens – instead a contemporary exhibition of new works by our core group, plus some fine pieces from guest artists. In keeping with our location the main body of the show has a... Read more

Nature’s Alchemy
John O’Carroll | Floor 1 20 Jul - 20 Aug 2019 Alchemy is the art of transformation. Medieval alchemists sought to purify themselves by the process of transmutation - destroying their base or mundane selves to attain the ‘gold’ of enlightenment. To the medieval mind Alchemy was a mysterious and therefore divine process used by astrologers, occultists and artists. The Alchemist... Read more

Susan Bleakley
Art Focus | Floor 2 20 Jul - 20 Aug 2019 Later, Susan’s immersion in Shamanism and native respect for ‘mother earth’ became inseparable from her art - her large colourfield paintings exude quietude; she says they are about stripping back veils to reveal the internal voice. Shamanic healing optimises the flow of energy fields around the body and Susan’s perfectly... Read more

Swimming Without Air
Morgan Doyle | Floor 1 15 Jun - 16 Jul 2019 Enough context, Doyle’s voice is hoarse, he has an early summer cold. Morgan says ‘summer’ quite a few times as he looks out into his garden. “I have to look out of the window to know what I am doing” – needing reassurance from the beautiful living. And beauty, not... Read more

Emily Crookshank
Art Focus: Floor 2 1 - 29 Jun 2019 Engaging with her new ‘live work’ community in Thames mead, an urban place with ancient woodland and an established travelling populace, Emily has found a space to set up her own, long waited for, print studio where she will run collaborative workshops focusing on art, environment and community. Emily is... Read more

SORDIDUM SOMNIUM
Augustine + Bridgland | Floor 1 18 May - 13 Jun 2019 If in need of an antidote to the purveyors of gloom, then look no further. Augustine + Bridgland – these two men who paint as one, create abstract designs of inflated florescence. Think sunny gardens ripe with floribunda, think Monet and mothers curtains, think the emotionally charged blooms of Emil... Read more

Painter + Poet
Bob Aldous + Myra Schneider | Floor 2 13 Apr - 12 May 2019 Circle are showing two particular paintings with their accompanying poems: BLACK WAVE and STREAM as part of a combined arts initiative. Collaborations between poets and painters are not new. In fact there is a fashionable movement of responding to painting through poetry. The late art writer John Berger, in his... Read more

Blue Blue Ocean
Shelley Anderson | Floor 2 21 Mar - 21 Apr 2019 From the deep turquoise seas of the pacific ocean to the highest turquoise domes on the mosques of Iran, from the turquoise mines of California, famous for Navaho Indian Jewellery, to our own turquoise coves in Cornwall – Turquoise blue is the colour of life and the afterlife, a colour... Read more

Danielle Creenaune
Art Focus | Floor 2 1 - 31 Mar 2019 Read more

Clay
Group Exhibition | Floor 2 30 Nov - 31 Dec 2018 Nicholas Arroyave-Portela, Paul Jackson, Nicholas Lees, Deborah Mitchell, Peter Hayes, Jenny Beavan, Regina Heinz and Chris Prindl are exhibiting their works in CLAY this autumn. The show, curated by John O’Carroll and Lucy Thorman will allow viewers to explore the ceramicists very different styles and techniques. The relationship between the... Read more

Coastlines
Joni Sternbach and Caroline Marrack | Floor 1 22 Sep - 31 Oct 2018 New York based photographer Joni Sternbach takes black and white portraits of surfers around the globe. She creates large-format Tintype photographs which document surfing culture in a way reminiscent of the ‘wild west’ pioneers of early photography. Joni was runner up at the 2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at... Read more

CIRCLE Autumn
Group Exhibition 22 Sep - 20 Dec 2018 Read more

The House Of Artists
Group Exhibition | Floor 2 4 - 25 Aug 2018 Taking pop art to a new level, Ben Allen’s brainchild is rooted in American pop art and culture: the 70’s silkscreens printed at Andy Warhol’s ‘factory’ in New York and the huge bill board posters seen while driving along route 66 in California. HOA is a ‘now brand’, comprising of... Read more

CIRCLE Summer
Group Exhibition 21 Jun - 21 Sep 2018 Read more

Nets And Other Entanglements
Chris Seaber | Floor 2 26 May - 23 Jun 2018 The works hanging on the gallery wall might be labelled assemblages, a form of sculpture comprised of objects so put together that they make a cohesive visual whole; they could equally be drawings or, for those that include paint, paintings. Conceivably they project out just enough into the real world... Read more

CIRCLE Spring
Group Exhibition 2 May - 20 Jun 2018 Read more

CIRCLE Winter
Group Exhibition 21 Dec 2017 - 19 Mar 2018 Read more

Solid Modern
Simon Gaiger and Genevieve Claisse | Floor 2 12 Oct - 25 Nov 2017 Pure Abstraction, as seen here in the prints of Genevieve Claisse, is the use of solid colour without tone, shape meeting shape, never overlapping. Orbs cusp angles to create the clean-cut designs which instantly rouse the senses, causing a dopamine high – pure joy. The early abstracts of the late... Read more

Sax Impey
Art Focus | Floor 1 1 Oct - 1 Nov 2017 Born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1969, Impey now lives and works in St. Ives. After graduating from art college, Impey moved to East Africa to participate in film, performance, and theatre projects before moving back to Cornwall. Impey has enjoyed solo and group exhibitions throughout the United Kingdom and has... Read more

CIRCLE Autumn
Group Exhibition 23 Sep - 19 Dec 2017 Read more

In The Spirit of Place
Adam Halls | Floor 2 17 Sep - 7 Oct 2017 Adam Halls is a textile artist who works from his studio on Bodmin Moor. He is inspired by the intricate details of algae, Lichens, rust and weathered surfaces. His pieces are incredibly complex, working on layers of fabric, paint and tread by hand and on the sewing machine, brought together... Read more

Hanging In The Balance
Henry Beasley | Floor 2 24 Aug - 14 Sep 2017 Process Art is a movement which emphasises the act of artistic creation, the journey, rather than the finished product, the destination. Imaginative use of iron for making art without a plan suits Henry Beazley’s identity – an intelligent person who often feels overwhelmed in the world, Henry immerses himself in... Read more

CIRCLE Summer
Group Exhibition 21 Jun - 20 Sep 2017 Read more

Meditations
Ben Allen | Floor 2 15 Jun - 29 Jul 2017 Read more

CIRCLE Spring
Group Exhibition 2 May - 28 Jun 2017 This spring exhibition showcases abstract and natural landscapes, balanced with sculpture, ceramic, photography. CIRCLE are committed to showing beautiful art that stems from living in harmony with nature and by artists whos daily lives are inseparable from, and necessary to, their artistic expression. Read more

Pine Feroda
Art Focus | Floor 2 26 Mar - 28 Apr 2017 The group can often be seen on their local beaches and headlands, collectively drawing on a cliff or in the ocean itself, capturing the light and movement of the swell. Pine Feroda’s work is intensive and skilful. The entire woodcutting, inking and printing process is carried out by hand with... Read more

CIRCLE Winter
Group Exhibition 21 Dec - 19 Mar 2015 Read more

CIRCLE Spring
Group Exhibition 22 Mar - 28 Jun 2015 Read more

CIRCLE Autumn
Group Exhibition 23 Sep - 19 Dec 2014 Read more

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