The Old Press Studio's, Gallery, Classroom

10/08/2023

Bisque firing work yesterday ready for glazing today. I’m looking forward to seeing the fishies plate fired.

30/08/2022

Let's be friends 🦋🤍
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24/08/2022

Please note. The Old Press Gallery is unfortunately permanently closed owing to illness. Please follow Red Red the artist, to see the further adventures of our founder, Charlie "Red" Pollard.

20/11/2016

PLEASE CLICK LINK FOR DETAILS and to click the GO button :-)

https://www.facebook.com/events/360528170967873/

Calling all Artists and People that live in Falmouth/St Austell Penryn Areas, Lizard Lounge Gallery is a new Gallery and Creative Space that can be rented £40.00 a session. . The opening night is Fri 25 th Nov exhibiting some of the Old Press If you have missed us please come down , the list of Artists are on the advert that will be exhibiting new work and the address is 46 Killigrew Street Falmouth ....... Hope to see you there

03/07/2016

So finally after 2 months of stress and illness we are all moved in and the container unit is empty. Hurrah.

Lots of tidying up to do but so exciting.

Massive thanks to my lovely Garry for kiln moving and box carrying. He is an angel.

04/06/2016

Hey, we have got 6 of these. We are now in Millbrook...anyone interested call Charlie on 07554313797. I would like £10 for each set.

01/06/2016

Better late then never here are the images from the 1st Carers Course and Exhibition Please feel free to Tag Your Images Photo Images taken by Lilisant Roche Photography

01/06/2016

Better late then never here are the images from the 1st Carers Course and Exhibition Please feel free to Tag Your Images Photo Images taken by Lilisant Roche Photography

31/03/2016

The Old Press CIC has received funding to provide a free 6 week art course for carers in Cornwall. Participants will learn how to paint a narrative self-portrait reflecting their lives and personalities, in a fun, relaxed, and supportive environment. Materials and refreshments provided, all ability levels welcome.

The course runs from Tuesday 12th April to Tuesday 17th May, from either 10-12AM to 1-3PM, at St Austell Quaker Meeting House (High Cross Street, St Austell, Cornwall, England, PL25 4AN).

Places limited. For more information, contact [email protected] or 07554 313797.

30/03/2016

As you will know, the Old Press is relocating from St Austell to the Plymouth region as of 1st April. I (project manager Steph) will be staying in St Austell but as a goodbye present, I wanted to do one last annual report for the Old Press, where I have been privileged to work since early 2013.

Because Charlie and I have been so busy closing down our St Austell building, and because I no longer technically work here, I have had to put this report together on the fly. Writing the annual report usually takes several weeks and involves the management team sitting down together and trying to remember what we actually did over the year, who was involved, who funded us, etc (which is why it usually takes us about six months to put it out). I am doing this at home with nowt but Microsoft Paint and a Facebook timeline to guide me. Treat this as a piece of Old Press fanfiction, if you like.

As such, any errors, omissions, accidental fibs, etc are all my own and I apologise in advance. I am not great at remembering things and engagement numbers are a full-on guesstimate in many places. Let me know if I've missed you off/got dates wrong/whatever and I'll make any adjustments, safe in the knowledge that Charlie literally cannot fire me. I have been intentionally vague as to when Old Press artists left and joined as I don't have your contracts on me and anything past last week is a bit of a blur. Please note that we have filed accounts from the last financial year but I don't have a copy of them for the report!
Thank you to all of you for your support - we will miss you very much.

P.S. I feel terrible because we have another resident artist, Ed, who I have only met once and who is such a man of mystery that I didn't know what to put in the annual report - Ed, if you send me a photo and a little blurb about you, I will put you in!

24/03/2016

A little late but better than never. These were taken throughout the day, from 9AM when we were setting up to 9PM, the close of the exhibition. Apologies for any duplicates, couldn't remember what I'd snapped before and wanted to make sure I took plenty. Also apologies for any pictures with my reflection in them!

Our talented artists, please feel free to comment and say which work is yours!

19/03/2016

“Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” —Edgar Degas

08/03/2016

Tonight's Carefree exhibition, a celebration of the hard work and talent of our fantastic carers, was an absolute joy. We are sublimely proud of you all, and you have been an absolute privilege to work with. Thank you to all of you, and to your friends and family who came to celebrate with us.

24/02/2016

An event on 8th march 19.00 21.00 to support Carers in the Community Please click the lin below and come along to see the work of carers that have been on our morning class and the carers of the afternoon class .. 2 hours in one week you will be amazed in what they have achieved. Or if you are a carer and want more info please come along. Its FREE ENTRY wine and nibbles Look forward tto seeing you . Please share our event in support for carers in cornwall

23/02/2016

Artists' Livelihoods 2016 (a-n).

22/02/2016

This ...this...I am so excited...is utter fantabulous.

17/02/2016

As one exhibition closes... I was going to wait and surprise our carers with this flyer when class begins again next week but the promo train stops for no man (and we already have another little surprise for them).

I hope you will all join us for Carefree, an exhibition on Tuesday 8th March to celebrate the hard work and ingenuity of the artists on our carers course, generously sponsored by the Cornwall Rural Community Charity. We're so happy to see people go from 'I can't do this, I don't even know which end of the brush is the painty one' to 'Let me show you what I made at home this week'. The Old Press is very proud of our fine, funny, fabulous students.

14/02/2016

Happy Valentines Day everybody!
Pop by the gallery to see the LOVE CRAFTS exhibition today and you can have a go on our fantastic drawing machine to create your own postcard... for a love note perhaps....

13/02/2016

10/02/2016

09/02/2016

Carers Day Today, its going to be messy thought we would post this song as we are becoming to know each other and finding solace with each other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpYgpF1bqQ&ab_channel=PierreRichard

Four sisters: Kim Sledge (born 21 August 1957), Debbie Sledge (born 9 July 1954), Joni Sledge (born 13 September 1956), and Kathy Sledge (born 6 January 1959...

08/02/2016

We would like to welcome some new Likes to our page from last week .....We have a exhibition called Love Crafts this Friday coming 12-15 Feb.. If you can pop along and introduce yourselves and find out more of what we do here at the Old Press you will be amazed

05/02/2016

Our carers project ended up oversubscribed so with a few little juggles in the budget and a great spirit of sharing, we got everyone in and it's a roaring success.

Unbelievably we are halfway through and so another bid is in to continue. Look at what our talented carers have been achieving. Some if them have not really drawn before. It's been amazing. With great big thanks to CRCC and Feast Cornwall ###

Keep your eye out for their upcoming exhibition, to be advertised soon.

04/02/2016

The Old Press CIC would like to extend the warmest thanks to Royal Cornwall Museum - Truro for being such kind and welcoming hosts.

Old Press artists visited the museum today with clients from the Mevagissey branch of Scope, as part of our current partner project, graciously funded by the Arts Council and Feast Cornwall. A very kind lady named Audrey gave our clients a guided tour of the artwork on display, and museum staff could not have been more accommodating.

We had a wonderful day and are profoundly grateful to everyone who is making this project happen - we can't wait to start sharing photos of the work our talented clients will be making!

02/02/2016

is in the running to win Cities and Architecture Photo Contest photo contest at ViewBug. Rock the vote, and give this image a leg up!

02/02/2016

The line of pure white busts sitting amongst the dust in Li Hongbo's Beijing studio could be found in any art classroom around the world. That is until the 3...

01/02/2016

Its been a busy day at The Old Press.

Zenna Tagney Artwork our resident artist has won a prestigious placement in the Isle of Skye http://goldentree.org.uk/tosta/

Charlotte Pollard Artist our director has just entered the BP Portrait awards with her painting "and who will die".

Sarah Jane our non executive director is qualified to resuscitate people in the back of a pick-up at 4000 feet.

Big congratulations all round.

14/01/2016

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/cSDKB6D7vxlNsrH2cCsW4b/could-you-be-our-next-everyday-artist

This is not just for drawing or painting , its for all types of crafts worth looking at

Millions of people take part in creative activities and we want to hear about them.

13/01/2016

A piece of art we were proud to hang in the gallery last August during our show with Guerilla Galleries.

Get the whole picture - and other photos from GUERILLA GALLERIES

07/01/2016

The Old Press carers course is fully booked. If you would still like a place contact us as more funding is available and we could set up a second course.

Meanwhile we would like to say thank you so so much for all the help given to us by The Works in St Austell. The ladies there were epic helping me get everything together. They also gave us 10% off ### hurrah