Join Cambridge-based architect Rolfe Kentish for this online talk which explores the restoration of the historic North-lit Anchor Studio in Newlyn, Cornwall.
This talk will illustrate the historic cultural significance of the building and the architect’s award-winning conservation, repair and renovation project, working with the late M J Long. There will also be the opportunity to hear contemporary artists’ reactions to working and living in the space since the building reopened. These will include ceramicist Julia Ellen Lancaster, visual artist Emma Smith, and painter Renée Spierdijk.
£10 Friends (£12 non-Friends, £5 students), booking required
About North-lit Anchor Studio
North-lit Anchor Studio was purpose-built for Stanhope Forbes RA (1857-1947) and Elizabeth Forbes (1859–1912) in 1888. The ‘stage set’ studio, situated in an en plein air meadow, has panoramic views over Newlyn Harbour, Penzance and Mount’s Bay. In 1899 the Forbes founded the Newlyn School of Painting. Over the following 40 years successive art students attended classes there, including Jim Ede, creator of Kettle’s Yard, in 1912–1914, Dod Procter RA, Arthur Todd RA, Frank Dobson, Frances Hodgkins, John Wells and Adrian Heath.
