'The Dark Rooms', a two-day contemporary art project in the Passmore Edwards building, Helston, curated by Jesse Leroy Smith Saturday 2nd February 1pm to 10pm Sunday 3rd February 12pm to 6 pm Passmore Edwards building, 3 Penrose Road, Helston, Cornwall TR138PB Admission to ‘The Dark Rooms’ is free and...
The Dark Rooms Passmore Edwards Building, Helston, Cornwall 1st/2nd Feb 2013Eliot Allison ‘The Dark Rooms’ could not be a more evocative title, summoning images of dank and repressive spaces, and certainly not places that one would consider at the epicenter of a professional exhibition of Cornish...
Sophia Kazan for Aesthetica Magazine The Dark Rooms is an exciting project by Newlyn-based curator and artist Jesse Leroy Smith that took place in the near derelict Passmore Edwards School of Science and Art building in Helston, South West Cornwall on 2-3 February 2013. Viewing contemporary installation...
‘Suspended Sentences’ Review by Jenny Brownrigg - Curator of Glasgow School of Art Gallery. Of all the public places, dear To make a scene, I’ve chosen here The first line of this excerpt from Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Give’, is written on a shutter with a peephole, looking...
ART CAN CREATE MORE SPACE THAN CURRENTLY EXISTS. THE OFTEN PHYSICALLY ROBUST AND COSTLY MATERIAL OF MONUMENTS DEFENDS THEM AGAINST TIME AND DESTRUCTION, BUT THE INTENTION OF ETERNITY MASKS INSECURITY. A MONUMENT CAN BE SEEN AS AN INFLEXIBLE STATE OF MIND.FROM THIS WE CAN SEE HOW MUCH...
'Revolver curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Volker Stox in 2007, with hardback publication in 2008 (published by Falmouth University, including texts by the Tate, Newlyn Art gallery, artists, and this from Rupert White at Art cornwall.org - A remarkable archive and supporter of Art practice’ There...