LEARN FROM A BIRD
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER and FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY

09 - 27 JULY 2024
TUES – SAT / 10 - 4
grays wharf gallery
commerical road, penryn tr10 8ae

A unique series of exhibitions showcasing the power of cross-disciplinary creative collaborations between artists, researchers and students from the University of Exeter and Falmouth University at the Penryn campus. Curated by Arts and Culture in collaboration with the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), University of Exeter, Cornwall.

Find out more about the whole programme here.

SCHEDULE ACROSS THE MONTH :

09 - 27 JULY
TENDER ACTS
GEORGIA GLENDALL and CAT BAGG

Tender Acts is a project designed to invite curious acts and to connect people who study or work on Penryn Campus. The year-long project began in March 2024, with three simple interventions:

• ‘Instruct’ – an open invitation to submit a set of instructions for someone else to interpret and enact, and to take instructions in return with the commitment to follow through on the exchange, sharing the results.

• ‘Collective Actions’ – artist-led activities that offer opportunities to do something intriguing, in company and without the aim of producing a fixed outcome.

• ‘Tender Acts’ – a large edition of poster format artworks that offer short provocations such as ‘learn from a bird’, ‘prune’ or ‘walk on the grass’. These works have been installed across the campus, without explanation or interpretation.

9 - 13 JULY
MAPPING EMERGENCE
DR CATARINA FONTOURA and DR THOMAS O’SHEA-WHELLER

Mapping Emergence aims to explore creativity, collective intelligence, and self-organisation in insect societies. The project combines artistic and scientific approaches to create collaborative artworks with a diverse array of ant species across Cornwall.

ARTIST TALK
THU 11 JULY / 4 - 6 PM

All welcome

16 - 20 JULY
MOVEMENT IS NATURAL
IMAN DATOO

Iman Datoo's exhibition, Movement is Natural, explores the dynamics of soil movement and behaviour through a more-than-human lens. Incorporating video-work, sculpture, maps, and audio, audiences are invited to inhabit the perspectives of entities that both nourish and are nourished by soils.

ARTIST TALK
TUES 16 JULY / 4 - 7 PM

All welcome

23 - 27 JULY
creative together

JOERN AW, CATRIN DUNN, CHLOÉ EATHORNE, ISABELLA FIELD, ED HART, JOSEPH MATHERS, VEE MORETTI, BEN PISACANE, TOBY SADGROVE, SKY SHAH, NAO SZULC & GINA UMNEY

Arts and Culture have supported 6 creative collaborations between Exeter and Falmouth University students in the last two years on Penryn Campus in partnership with Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS Cornwall), The Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC) and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES) University of Exeter, Cornwall. This year the theme is Living Systems with collaborations between a Human Sciences student and a Drawing student, a Marine Biologist and a Journalism and Creative Writing student, a Zoologist is collaborating with a sound specialist from BA Film and a Business and Environment student is working with a Dancer and Choreographer.

OPENING EVENT
TUES 23 JULY / 4 - 8 PM

All welcome