Following its winter closure, Tremenheere Gallery unveils its spring/summer 2026 programme ahead of reopening on 27 March.
The season begins with Eye of the Lens (27 March – 19 April), this year’s spring exhibition by the Newlyn Society of Artists. Guest curated by film critic Mark Kermode, the show brings together a diverse range of practices and perspectives that reflect the breadth of contemporary artistic practice in the region. This is followed by Tir ha Trig (25 April – 6 June), showcasing 25 years of landscape-focused work by Judy Buxton and Virginia Bounds, balancing figuration and abstraction through shared Australian and Cornish influences.
From 12 June to 25 July, Holy Animals Sacred Plants: Responses to Other Lives explores connections with the natural and unseen worlds through work by ten artists led by Kate Walters. The summer concludes with The Mechanised Image: Forty Years of Paupers Press (1 August – 5 September), highlighting the enduring relevance of printmaking, with works produced by Paupers Press in collaboration with leading artists including Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry, Paula Rego and James Turrell.
Entry to Tremenheere Gallery is free, with many works available to purchase— please check individual exhibition listings for opening times. The Gallery reopening follows the Sculpture Gardens, which opened in Feb and is now open daily until early November.
27 March – 19 April | Newlyn Society of Artists: Eye of the Lens
For its 2026 spring show, Newlyn Society of Artists welcomes Mark Kermode as guest curator. Rather than asking members to make work in response to a theme, Kermode invited artists to submit work that best represents their current practice – a guest curator brings a fresh perspective to the selection of members’ work, generating new dialogues among a diverse group of artists.
Mark Kermode is a film critic and musician, a presenter on radio and television, and the author of several books on film and music. He co-hosts the weekly film podcast Kermode and Mayo’s Take with Simon Mayo, and presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Screenshot with Ellen E. Jones. His television work includes the Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema.
25 April – 6 June | Judy Buxton & Virginia Bounds: Tir ha Trig
Tir ha Trig (Land and Ebb) brings together paintings spanning the past 25 years.
Speaking about the exhibition Judy Buxton and Virginia Bounds say: ‘As two painters, we share Australian heritage, living and painting in Cornwall as well as the complexities of straddling these two territories – both physically and in the psyche. We painted ‘plein-air’ together in the late 90s, sharing the love of landscape and the visceral qualities of paint. The play and tension between figuration and abstraction are seen in different ways in our works.’
12 June – 25 July | Holy Animals Sacred Plants: Responses to Other Lives
Holy Animals Sacred Plants: Responses to Other Livesexplores ways of being with non-human animals, plants, and subtle areas of our lives such as dreams and experiences of non-ordinary reality.
This exhibition comprises the work of ten artists and presents paintings, drawings, textiles, mixed-media works and passages of text and film. One of the artists, Kate Walters, has been working with and mentoring the other nine for periods of between 15 and 5 months (and some for many years). The artists exhibiting alongside Kate are: Sally Tripptree, Mydd Pharo, Christine Linfield, Mandy Lancaster, Terese Hynds, Jacky Fox, Lucy Cooper, Danielle Beall-Kemp, Rachael Bice.
1 August – 5 September | The Mechanised Image: Forty Years of Paupers Press
Although not a comprehensive survey, this exhibition shows how printmaking continues to work centrally to many artists’ practices and how print languages, some of which may be centuries old, still inform contemporary cultural practice.
Paupers Press is a fine art print and publishing studio that has worked with some of the UK’s most important and influential artists. This exhibition will include work by: Sarah Ball, Samuel Bassett, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Damien Hirst, Christopher Le Brun, Andrew Litten, Grayson Perry, Hughie O’Donoghue, Paula Rego, Bob & Roberta Smith, James Turrell, Caroline Walker.
