The Last Weekend Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds

Gwenno is a Welsh-Cornish musician. She has released three critically acclaimed albums as a solo artist: Welsh Music Prize winner Y Dydd Olaf (2014); Le Kov (2018), her first album in Cornish; and Tresor (2022), which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.

Lally MacBeth is an artist, writer and curator based in Cornwall. Her work takes in history, folklore, performance, ritual and artifice – and the links between high and low culture. She is the founder of The Folk Archive and co-founder of Stone Club. She has written for Caught by the River, House and Garden, and Hellebore, appeared on BBC Radio 3, and programmed events for the Tate, the British Museum, and the ICA amongst others. The Lost Folk, her first book, is published by Faber in June 2025.

Penny MacBeth is an artist who has lived and made art in Cornwall since 1997. She often works collaboratively, incorporating costume, ritual, painting, written word and soundscape. Penny has a longstanding interest in the work of Ithell Colquhoun and was part of The Ancient Scent project, an immersive experiment in The Lamorna Valley and subsequently in Southern Ireland between 2016 -2018, inspired by the writings of Ithell Colquhoun. The Antre Project in 2018 and Sacred Wanderings in 2023 have continued to explore automatism and immersive working. Penny has designed and made a set of Colquhoun inspired costumes, incorporating stillomantic designs and hermetic emblems, for The WAD who will perform at Tate St Ives on Sunday 4 May.

The Photocopy club is a traveling zine making and exhibition project founded by Matt Martin. A curator, book and zine maker, Matt has been producing workshops for over 15 years. His new project TONER has just opened in Penzance and is a photography gallery, workshop and bookshop supporting photographers in Cornwall and across the UK.

The WAD are a Falmouth-based Morris dancing side named after Joan the WAD, Queen of the Cornish Piskies. Cornish folklore suggests that Joan the WAD would light people to safety, or sometimes peril, across the Cornish moors. Taking inspiration from Cornish folklore and Joan's feisty and fiery nature, this all-female Morris side brings Joan the WAD energy and a modern, progressive take to a mixture of traditional border and cotswold dances.

Daisy Rickman is a self-taught multidisciplinary Artist and Musician from Mousehole, Cornwall. Over the past 12 years her path has led her to exhibiting and working as a freelancer internationally in the Painting, Music, Photography, Film and Visual Art circles. Performing both solo and with her band, following the success of her self released records Donsya a’n Loryow and Howl her live shows have expanded into a celestial space of acoustic psychedelic folklore.

The Hypatia Trust brings people together to change who and what makes history. By engaging creatively with archival materials, we question ideas of gender and representation, making space for new thinking to flourish and more voices to be heard. We offer residencies, workshops and events at our venue in Penzance, which hosts our collections, bookshop, and publishing imprint.

Alice Mount is a writer and researcher. Her background is in contemporary feminist writing practices and hidden social histories. Alice develops and maintains The Hypatia Trust’s collaborative partnerships and is managing editor of Women in Cornwall, an online archive of women’s lives and histories in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Jen McDerra (PhD, FRSA) is a writer and literary life historian who uses archives and oral histories to reunite people whose voices and stories have been denied a place in history with their considerable achievements. In her role as Director of The Hypatia Trust, Jen is establishing an international residency programme in Penzance for writers, artists, and thinkers interested in visiting Cornwall to collaborate. Jen is a Trustee of Cornwall Pride and a Fellow of the Clore Leadership programme.

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