Taking the Art Now Cornwall show as a precedent for the contemporary art scene in the region may present a pretty skewed view, as it was after all, a single curators selection. So the lame foal of Cornish art limps into the postmodern era "tentatively and reluctantly"... I don't contest the efforts to pursue a less metrocrentric or less region-centred practice, but surely the project "background" has been broader and better informed than this? What of:Transitions,PALP, SALT gallery, Invigorate, MORE projects, Wheal Art Weekend, eek, Waiting projects, Cut, Stack, Burn, Embark Ferry Art, Provisional Newlyn, Second Nature, POST mag, artcornwall.org, Live Art Falmouth, numerous residencies, including BUILD etc etc

MEGAN

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We need a critic who is willing to speak out about the kind of work shown in Cornwall at the present time.The canon will not rise or develop until we are making work true to ourselves and of our time. The ‘sentimentality’ of Cornish work has to be banished if we are to ever be taken seriously not just as local but global entities.