Exhibitions

Current

Hugh West
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Sep 2021 This year marks potter Hugh West’s 50th year in ceramics, and Whitewater Contemporary are proud to host his anniversary exhibition, Ethereal, throughout September. Hugh studied at Hereford School of Art & Design aged seventeen, later studying ceramics at Redruth School of Art, where Mary Rich and Roger Veal were his... Read more

Forthcoming

Virgina Ray
Featured Artist 1 - 30 Oct 2021 Throughout October, Whitewater Contemporary presents a new collection of paintings by Featured Artist Virginia Ray. Please EMAIL to receive a digital show preview catalogue 24 hours before the show opening. Virginia’s mixed media landscape works are inspired by the dramatic weather and rich industrial heritage of West Cornwall, and include... Read more

Suki Wapshott
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Nov 2021 Details to be announced shortly. Please EMAIL to receive a digital show preview catalogue 24 hours before the show opening. Read more

Past

Caroline Cleave
Featured Artist 1 - 30 Aug 2021 Throughout August, Whitewater Contemporary presents a summer collection by Featured Artist Caroline Cleave. Caroline has lived and worked in Cornwall for over thirty years and is part of a family with a 400-year history in the fishing village of Port Isaac. She is well known for her contemporary paintings and... Read more

Hannah Billingham
Featured Artist 1 - 30 Jul 2021 Throughout July, Whitewater Contemporary presents new work by award winning ceramicist Hannah Billingham, as part of the gallery ’s 2021 Featured Artist series. Hannah was awarded the Gibney Prize for Outstanding Achievement at Lincoln College of Art & Design in 2016, and was nominated for the Emerging Artist Award in... Read more

Suki Wapshott
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Jun 2021 Throughout June our Featured Artist series continues with an exhibition of twenty new paintings by Suki Wapshott. Suki graduated from Oxford University with a BA in English and used the inspiration gained from her studies of Anglo Saxon and Medieval Poetry to become a painter of poetic landscapes, seascapes and... Read more

Simeon Stafford
Featured Artist 1 - 30 May 2021 Whitewater Gallery Polzeath continues its 2021 Featured Artist series with new work by much loved and highly collected painter Simeon Stafford, in a must-see exhibition for everyone who looks forward to the return of togetherness, leisure time, and existing shoulder to shoulder with our fellow human beings. This new collection... Read more

Luke Knight
Featured Artist 1 - 29 Apr 2021 Whitewater Gallery began its 2021 Featured Artist series with an exhibition of new work by landscape painter Luke Knight. Luke studied Fine Art at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, and at the L'Ecole De Beaux-Art in Nantes, France. European painting, in particular the work of Pierre Bonnard, and... Read more

Online

Stewart Edmondson
Virtual Showcase 24 Aug - 23 Sep 2021 For our latest virtual showcase, we welcome talented mixed-media artist Stewart Edmondson to Whitewater Contemporary. Stewart lives and works on Dartmoor, but for this collection, available now at the gallery, he has created exclusive new work inspired by Polzeath and the beauty of the surrounding coast. Working ‘en plein air’... Read more

Peter Turnbull
Virtual Showcase 2 - 31 Aug 2021 Read more

Ian Hargreaves
Virtual Showcase 2 - 9 May 2021 In the second of our series of online Virtual Showcases at Whitewater Contemporary, we present new work by landscape painter Ian Hargreaves. Ian began his painting career as a young man, travelling across Europe and recording his travels in watercolour. In particular, he developed a strong association with Mediterranean subjects,... Read more

Sally Spens
Virtual Showcase 9 - 25 Apr 2021 Read more

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