The Best Art Gallery in Cornwall

We are extremely thrilled and proud to announce that we, the Porthminster Gallery, have won 'Best Art Gallery' at the Cornwall Today Awards 2014.

Gallery Director Dee Bray receiving the 'Best Art Gallery' award

Our Managing Director Dee Bray attended the prestigious awards ceremony at the Headland Hotel, Newquay and accepted the award for the gallery.

Up against three other nominated galleries, we are stunned and delighted to have been announced as the winner. The nominees are set by a panel of judges who then give the final decision over to a public vote and we have been blown away in finding out recently that an impressive 60,000 votes were cast.

The award has definitely added an extra spark to us all at the gallery with this unexpected recognition of the team's much hard work. We are now busy trying to say a big thank you to every single person that has supported us and, in our planning for 2015, endeavoring to keep the gallery living up to this impressive title.

Award news: 'Best Art Gallery'

The gallery has been shortlisted for 'Best Art Gallery' in the Cornwall Today Awards 2014. 

We are thrilled to receive the news that we are within the four art galleries nominated for the 'Best Art Gallery' award. Voting is currently open and we are calling on all to take a few moments to vote for us using the awards website: http://www.cornwalltoday.co.uk/awards/.
Voting ends this week, Sunday 31st August.

There are countless thank yous to come for all of the support we have received as well as the announcement of the winner at the ceremony on Thursday 25th September 2014.

The awards celebrate 'the brightest best of the county' which comprises 16 categories, all containing outstanding businesses and products from Cornwall. We are also very pleased to see our fantastic neighbours Trevose Harbour Hotel up for 'Best Small Accomodation' and Fifteen, Watergate Bay - run by our chosen charity Cornwall Food Foundation - shortlisted for Best Fine Dining.

To find out more about the awards and cast your vote, visit the Cornwall Today website: http://www.cornwalltoday.co.uk/awards/

Horizons

Painting by Marianne Buckley, winner of the gallery's sponsored award from the Truro College 'Horizons' exhibition

On Tuesday 20th May, we were pleased to once again find ourselves in the large marquee on the Piazza at Lemon Quay, Truro viewing an exciting display of the latest artistic talents to emerge from Truro College as part of its student's Art & Design show. For the past three years we have enjoyed spending a day entranced by the creativity and individuality that each year has demonstrated and attempting to select just one artist from the impressive range of talent on show to receive our gallery prize.

The award that we donate each year for the show comprises of a part within an exhibition at the gallery. Past winners include Rebecca Harris whose bold, Hockney-inspired landscape paintings went in to private collections across the UK and Benjamin Ayling whose constructed rope collage is now on permenant display within the art collection of a Cornish-based business (see sixth image down: http://www.truro-penwith.ac.uk/news/amazing-student-art-at-white-out-exhibition/).

This year the winner of our sponsored award is Marianne Buckley whose work struck us from across the room with its jewel-like colour. Marianne has just finished a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at Truro College and will be going on to study BA(Hons) Degree Fine Art at Wimbledon University. As stated by the gallery director and curator David Durham, 'Marianne's layered, semi-abstract paintings caught our interest, and we are looking forward to seeing her work develop, and to working with Marianne in the coming months.'

We are now finalising plans to show Marianne's work within one of our upcoming exhibitions, details of which will be announced later in the year. Join our mailing list to be the first to be notified about our upcoming shows.