ALMA Arts: Anchorhold Exhibition

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ALMA Artspace: Anchorhold Exhibition

16 May – 16 June 2026

Join us on Saturday 16 May, 6pm - 8pm for the opening of our next exhibition: Anchorhold.
Anchorhold brings together existing works and new pieces by Cornwall based artists Rachael Coward and Melanie Stidolph.

Saturday 6 June, 11am - 1pm
A Stone Printmaking Walk with Artist Rachael Coward

Join artist Rachael Coward for a Stone-themed walk around Newquay, using block printing and guided drawing excersises along the way! Age 8+
 
Tuesday 16 June, 6pm - 8pm
’How to Enter the Art World After…’ with Hettie Judah
Following the recent publication of her book ‘How to Enter The Artworld After … a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence or leaving it in disgust’, we are delighted to welcome Hettie Judah to Newquay.
 

More information: Opening event 16 May, 6.00 - 8.00pm 

Anchorhold brings together existing works and new pieces by Cornwall based artists Rachael Coward and Melanie

Stidolph at ALMA Artspace, Newquay’s community arts organisation.

Inspired by the idea of the Anchorhold - a small, enclosed cell or dwelling, usually attached to a church, used by medieval Christian anchorites, or recluses, to live in isolation - together, they create an installation for ALMA that embodies the sanctity of the studio, aligning it with the religious space of the Anchorhold.  These spaces of voluntary enclosure sat adjunct to places of worship, inhabited by an Anchorite or Anchoress with limited sightlines to the outside world.

Coward’s fragile works reference the practical hardware of the shoreline, shifting between utilitarian and symbolic offerings. These delicate ceramic pieces sit alongside the slippery draping of Stidolph’s printed fabrics, depicting characters in communion with the rocky edges of Cornwall’s coast.

The exhibition is accompanied by a Stone Walk printmaking workshop with Rachael Coward (Saturday 6 June, 11am -

1pm, £15) and an artist talk and Q&A led by curator and author Hettie Judah (Tuesday 16 June, 6pm - 8pm, £5).

More information & booking details: www.alma-artspace.com/events