Trevellas Porth

Pete Smithson

Ken artspace is currently showing a new window commission, Trevellas Porth by the artist Pete Smithson. The artist explores ideas around exploration of place and orientation, including maps, measurements and observations from walks, archaeological sites and landscape. Most of his recent work consists of two or more elements which link wall to floor: a clay slip painted ‘map’ combined with a measuring device. He is also making paper maps, both large and small, that combine maps of walks and trips with visual references to the landscape.

Trevellas Porth takes a drawing of a rock island (one of several encountered when walking on the Cornish coast) and repurposes it in a large clay slip work for the window at ken artspace.

Trevdellas Porth. Clayslip and pen on glass. Exterior view Ken artsapce

2026

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Pete Smithson graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art in 1978. He has continued to exhibit nationally and internationally. His work has been included in shows in: Natural History Museum, London, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, Centre de Recherche pour le Development Culturel, Nantes, France, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (solo show), ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany, Domitzer Bruke, Domitzer, Germany, Standpoint Gallery, London, Nanairo+ with Aichi University, Setouchi Triennale, Megijima, Japan.

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Run by artists and founders Rob Kesseler and Agalis Manessi is

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