Newlyn Art Gallery takeover event

In January 2020, Newlyn Art Gallery offered Shallal the chance to take over the gallery for three days in a gap between shows

The long weekend was the culmination of three Shallal projects: It was the final Embodied Space improvised dance performance of Shallal Dance Theatre’s Here and Now project, the final art exhibition of our Shallal Studios Expanding Limits project and the final exhibition for our Shallal Back Lane West Studio Foundations residency. Shallal Studios filled the gallery with paintings, prints, drawings, photography and poetry.

For Shallal Dance Theatre's final Embodied Space dance performance the company was joined by light artist Peter Freeman who flooded the performance space with his changing coloured lights. The dance was a response to Peter's lights, and live soundscapes by George Bradley Peer.

film by Barbara Santi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqDqf2s7kk8&t=1s

A person is holding a large light cube and another person is standing next to them watching them. A third person is sitting on the right of the image

Type of event

Exhibition

Location

Newlyn

Arts Council England

Cornwall Community Foundation

Artwork

long pastel drawing of a mystical crowded street party scene. Some of the characters are dressed in animal masks. In the background there are old looking buildings with archways, which are torched lit.

Abstract painting with green, pink and black thick paint marks in the centre and a red border of paint marks. Also pastel marks in red and blue move across the paper from one side to the other.

Abstract painting with thick black paint marks in the middle moving outwards to thick grey paint marks making a border around them and washier grey-green, overlaid with green pastel drawing marks.

a pink screen print of curvy shapes over a black and white ink drawing of abstract marks

Photos

3 people dressed in white performing. They have their hands on each others backs and are standing in a line

a person dancing in a blue lit space. They are bent forward with their fists clenched

2 people dancing together in an orange lit space. They are both wearing white. One person has their hands out and open and is looking to the right. The other person is sitting behind them and is looking to the left

a person standing with their arms out in a circle of people. They are wearing a black top and the circle of people around them is blurred out.

a person dancing in a blue lit space. They are wearing white and they are moving their elbows outwards. They are casting a huge shadow of their silhouette on the wall behind them

3 people dancing in a red space. All of them are wearing white. 2 people are dancing close together with their arms around each other. The third is in the background.

A person sitting on the floor in a busy space playing percussion instruments.

2 people dancing in green light. They are both wearing white. One is holding the other from behind through their arms. There person being held has their arms open and is looking upwards.

3 people dancing. They are all wearing white. 2 people are spreading their hands out with their wrists together.

4 people dancing together. They are all wearing white in a white space. They are huddled close together and one person is leaning backwards with their arms crossed over their chest and being supported by the rest of the group.

a group of 10 people wearing white dancing in a white gallery space

4 people dancing in a white space. All of them are wearing all white.

A person carrying a child on their back in a blue room.

A person performing in a white space. They are wearing all white and sitting on the floor holding their arms out in front of them

A person dancing in a white lit space. They are wearing all white and lying on the floor with one arm raised to the ceiling

A person dancing in a pink room. The person is holding their hands above their head and is wearing all white