biography  

exhibitions

'Delicate Situations', online exhibition

'Art Now Cornwall?' Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance

'Unquiet Earth', NSA, St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives

'Tales of the Unexpected', part of 'MORE Cornwall', various locations curator www.talesoftheunexpected.blogspot.com

'Live Art Falmouth', Alexandra Terrace, University College Falmouth

'On Artistic Lines', curated by Sam Gathercole, featured artist, AXIS

'One in a Million Changes', part of 'MORE Cornwall' Vogue Beloth Chapel, Illogan

'Lineage', NSA, Newlyn Art Gallery

Second Nature pt 1' Truro Cathedral, Truro (curator)

Second Nature pt 2' Vitreous Contemporary Art, Truro (curator)

artcornwall.org webprojects (curator)

'MOVE', Vyner Street, London

Second chamber show, Revolver, Penzance

Video night, Revolver, Penzance

Mix-it up', Salt Gallery, Hayle

Keepin' it rural!' Quay Gallery, Wadebridge

Christmas Show, Salt Gallery, Hayle

'Touch paper' Revolver, Penzance

Goldfish Winter Show, Penzance

'4', Millennium, St Ives

artcornwall.org webprojects

'The Cornish Perspective', RWA, Bristol

'Apocalypse Now', Red Wire, Liverpool

'Supernature', View Gallery, Bristol

rhizome.org online projects

Supermassive Black Hole #3 (publication)

Winter Show, Millennium, St Ives

'A Giant Leap', Camborne

'House of Fairy Tales', Millennium, St Ives

'NEXUS', Pheonix Gallery, Exeter

'New Living Art' Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin

'Exquisite Trove', House of Fairy Tales, Newlyn Art Gallery

Winter Show, Millennium, St Ives

Queen Convention 2011, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (presentation/talk)

'Frenchman's Creek', Rural Centre for Contemporary Art, Kestle Barton

'Print!' The Exchange, Penzance

Cornish Queen Party, The Driftwood Spars, St Agnes (exhibition/event organiser)

'The Dark Rooms', CAST, Helston

'Inland Art Festival', Redruth

'A Cornish Review' (talk as workshop for 'Groundwork' with Lucy Stein and Ilker Cinarel)

'The Owl Man' (short talk for Lally Macbeth's 'Folk Archive' podcast)

'Weird Film Night' Gwythi An Pystri, Falmouth (short talk and film showing)

BP EXPO catalogue, London, 1992

BP EXPO feature, Time Out, London, February 4^th, 1992

The Packet, March 4th, 1993 ‘City doctor stages solo art show’

West Briton, 18^th Feb 1993

Western Morning News, February 19^th 1993 ‘Doctor’s solo art show’

The Packet, July 28^th 1994 ‘Arts teacher dreams up living spiral of progress’

West Briton, August 18^th 1994 ‘School Life through artists’ eyes’

Radio Cornwall, August 16^th interview with Rupert White and Phil Mawdsley

Art monthly, August 1994 ‘The Learning of Trees’

The Independent, August 31^st, 1994 ‘A Game of Two Halves’

Dazed and Confused, August, 1994 ‘Lick me, touch me, bite me, take me’

The Face, August 1994 ‘Public Images: Outpost’ on Venice Biennale Project

Artist's Newsletter, March, 1995,  'Multiple Choice', Sotiris Kyriacou

Art Monthly, February, 1995,  'Multiplication', Erika Lederman on Words and Pictures

Quality of Light catalogue, 1997, Questioning Office of Art

The Cornishman, January 5^th 2006 ‘Artists explore the experience of Cornwall’

Cornwall Today, June 2006 ‘Painting the landscape’

Cornwall Today, November 2006 p.84 ‘Fabulous new website’

West Briton, May 11^th 2006

West Briton, May 18^th 2006 ‘The minimal paintings of Rupert White’

'Waiting' catalogue, 2006

Cornwall Today, February 2007 ‘Artist and editor of artcornwall discusses his slant on landscape painting for the 21^st Century’

www.24hourmuseum.org.uk, January 2007 ‘Tate St Ives Art Now Cornwall exhibition sparks heated local debate’

The Independent, 28^th February, 2007 ‘Brian Sewell and the art of insulting your hosts’ includes discussion of 'Art Now Cornwall?'

Western Morning News, 27th February, 2007 'Critic Sewell sniffs at Tate St Ives' includes description of 'Art Now Cornwall?'

Cornwall Today, July 2007 Features on 'More', 'Tales of the Unexpected' and www.artcornwall.org

Tales Of The Unexpected Book publication

Artists Newsletter, August  2007, Feature on 'More'

Artists Newsletter, September  2007, Feature and front page on 'More'

Cornwall Today, September 2007, Double page feature on 'Second Nature'

The Times, September 8th 2007, 'New face of Cornish art'

West Briton, September 20th 2007, 'Truro partnership comes as Second Nature'

PROOF magazine, Autumn/Winter 2007: Second Nature and artcornwall.org: 'Vibrant new directions'

Catalogue for 'Move', Goldfish at Vyner Street, London

POST Spring 2008, Article on LAF 2007

BBC Spotlight Southwest, 21st May, 2008 'Streetlife streetart' TV feature

Cornwall Today, June 2008, Editorial on artcornwall.org

The Irish Times, July 8th, 2008 'A Blank Canvas for a new North' on Catalyst Arts Garden Show

Revolver Art Cornwall, Book publication

Inside Cornwall, January 2009, 'Original Visions' feature on The New Landscape

West Briton, February 3rd 2009, 'Royal Cornwall Museum takes on New Landscape'

West Briton, May, 2009, 'Fabulous Four' on '4' at Millennium

Catalogue for '4', Millennium Gallery, St Ives

Catalogue for SuperNature, View Gallery, Bristol

West Briton, June 3rd, 2010 Do you remember legend's concerts? Queen in Kernow

Time Out, July 5th 2010  'The House of Fairy Tales'

Cornwall Today, August, 2010 'Queen in Cornwall'

West Briton, March 10, 2010 'I didn't want to be a dentist I wanted to be in a world conquering band'

West Briton, March 10, 2011 'Smile you're on the Truro City Hall Stage'

Western Morning News, April 9th 2011, 'Kestle Barton: The barn doors open for another exciting season'

Western Morning News, February 10th 2012 'Is this the real life or is this just fantasy' (review of Queen in Cornwall)

St Ives Times and Echo, August 16th 2013 'Merry nights of great music and song and camaraderie' (review of Folk in Cornwall)

Western Morning News, September 17, 2013 'Heyday of the Cornish Music Scene' (review of Folk in Cornwall)

fRoots, December 2014,  'Folkniks Go West' (review of Folk in Cornwall)

The Wire, January 2015, 'Tribute to Clive Palmer'

Falmouth Packet, April 8th 2015 'Was Cornish Sea Monster sighting gigantic hoax'? Mike Truscott on Monstermind

West Briton, May 27th 2015 'Read about the Magic and Theatre of Doc Shiels' by Lee Trewhela on Monstermind

Folklore Frontiers #78, Feb 2017, 'Wizard Wheezes' by Paul Screeton on Monstermind

Folklore Podcast on 'The Re-enchanted Landscape'

Meyn Mamvro Vol1 #95, Winter 2018 by Cheryl Straffon on The Re-enchanted Landscape

Folklore Frontiers #80, Feb 2018, 'Cornish Cornucopia'  by Paul Screeton on The Re-enchanted Landscape

Wyrd Britain, May 8th 2020, Mark Pilkington on Tony 'Doc' Shiels and Monstermind

Meyn Mamvro Vol2 #1, Spring 2020 'Review of Physick and Folk Medicine by Cheryl Straffon

artcornwall.org summer 2022 Review of 'Fern Seed & Fairy Rings' by Alan Kent

Meyn Mamvro Vol2 #6 Autumn 2022 Review of 'Fern Seed & Fairy Rings' by Cheryl Straffon

International Times May 2023 'Do you believe in Magic' by Rupert Loydell on Magic and Modernism

Caught by the River June 2023 'Magic and Modernism' by Richard Shillitoe

Fortean Times #439 Christmas 2023 'The Magic of the Duchy' Marcus Williamson on Magic and Modernism and Ill-wished

The Enquiring Eye #10 Autumn 2023 'Ill-wished: Magic and Witchcraft in 19th century Cornwall' by Alex Langstone

Meyn Mamvro  'Ill-wished' by Cheryl Straffon

Meyn Mamvro Vol2 no10 Autumn 2024 'Holy Wells of Cornwall: revisited' by Cheryl Straffon

Northern Earth 'Holy Wells of Cornwall: revisited' by Matthew Shaw

Fortean Times 'Holy Wells of Cornwall: revisited' by Jeremy Harte

Tales of the Unexpected (book), Queen in Cornwall (book), Folk in Cornwall (book), Monstermind (book), The Giraffe that Swims (book), The Re-enchanted Landscape (book), Monica Sjoo: Life and Letters (book), Physick and Folk Medicine (book), Fern Seed & Fairy Rings (book), Magic and Modernism (book), Ill-wished (book), 'The Holy Wells of Cornwall: revisited' (book) catalogues and medical journals.

(also articles in artcornwall.org Artists Newsletter, AXIS, POST, Stride Magazine, PROOF, Art of England, Revolver Art Cornwall, Tales of the Unexpected, The West Briton, Cornwall Live, Cornwall Today, The Enquiring Eye, Pagan Dawn, Meyn Mamvro, Folklore Frontiers, cornishnationalmusicarchive.co.uk)

Essays & articles include:

Revolver Art Cornwall, 2008, 'Putting Revolver in its place'

Cornwall Today, August, 2010 'Queen in Cornwall'

The Edge of It Book publication, 2014, Propaganda, Warsaw

Pagan Dawn Samhain 2017 'The Re-enchanted Landscape'

Enquiring Eye #1 Autumn 2017 'This Charming Man FT Nettleinghame and his Piskey Empire'

Enquiring Eye #2 Autumn 2018 'Peller and related terms: 200 years of newspaper articles'

Meyn Mamvro Vol1 #97 Winter 2018-2019  Revisiting the Land of the Goddess

Pagan Dawn Beltane 2019 'Remembering Monica Sjoo''

Cornish National Music Archive August 2020 The Sixties Folk Revival in Cornwall

Cornish National Music Archive August 2020 Roger Taylor Legendary Drummer of Cornwall

Meyn Mamvro Vol2 #1, Spring 2020 'Wells' Properties'

Enquiring Eye #3 Spring 2020 'Anger's Letter'

Enquiring Eye #3 Spring 2020 Interview with Jo Carson (on Ferafaria and the film 'Dance with a Goddess').

Meyn Mamvro Vol 2 #3, Spring 2021 Review of Amy Hale's 'Genius of the Fern Loved Gully'

Enquiring Eye #4 Autumn 2020 'A Little Frog: Transference of Disease in the Wicker Man'

Enquiring Eye #4 Autumn 2020 Interview with Prof Ronald Hutton

Lien Gwerin: Journal of Cornish Folklore #5 2021 'Miraculous Healing'

Enquiring Eye #5 Spring 2021 'Action Stations: the film career of Cecil Williamson'

Enquiring Eye #5 Spring 2021 Interview with Philip Heselton

Enquiring Eye #6 Autumn 2021 'Cornish Charms: Origins and Originality'

The Folk Archive Podcast October 2021 A Haunt of Owls contributor

Enquiring Eye #6 Autumn 2021 Interview with Gemma Gary

Lien Gwerin: Journal of Cornish Folklore #6 2022 'T.F.G. Dexter: Cornish Pagan'

Tre: A Window For Cornwall Abigail Reynolds 2022 Contributor

Enquiring Eye #7 Spring 2022 'How Cornish was the witchcraft of the Cornish Witchfinder, William Paynter?'

Enquiring Eye #7 Spring 2022 Interview with Steve Patterson

'Monica Sjoo: artist, activist, writer, mother, warrior' Legion Projects 2022 'Radical Monica'

Enquiring Eye #8 Autumn 2022 'The Britton Herb Collection'

Enquiring Eye #8 Autumn 2022 Interview with Prof Owen Davies

Lien Gwerin: Journal of Cornish Folklore #7 'Appletree lore of Cornwall'

The Bible of  British Taste #1 Autumn 2022: 'A Witch's Garden'

Lien Gwerin: Journal of Cornish Folklore #8 'Legends of the Scilly Isles'

The Folk Review #1 2023 'Sweeping the Crossroads: Nigel Kneale's Murrain'

The Enquiring Eye #9 Spring 2023 'Cornwall's Midsummer Bonfires'

The Enquiring Eye #9 Interview with Ceri Houlbrook

Journal of the St Agnes Museum 2023: 'Legendary Drummer: Roger Taylor, Queen and St Agnes'

The Bible of  British Taste #2 Autumn 2023: 'The Old Stones of John Michell'

The Enquiring Eye #10 Autumn 2023 'A Poor Wisht Mortal'

The Enquiring Eye #10 Autumn 2023 'Give us Good Harvest: Ritual v the Wicker Man'

The Enquiring Eye #10 Autumn 2023 Interview with Daniel Harms

The Enquiring Eye #11 Spring 2024 'Superstitious Traffic: the Market in Child's Cauls'

The Enquiring Eye #11 Spring 2024 Interview with Andy Norfolk

Fortean Times #449 October 2024 'Necrolog: Tony 'Doc' Shiels'

Journal of the St Agnes Museum 2024 'Fever Trap: Water and Waste in 19^th Century St Agnes'

Kernow Goth 2024 'Water supplies in Cornwall'

The Bible of  British Taste #3 Autumn 2024: 'Clouties'