Prime Women Artists
  • 11th March 2025 to 15th March 2025
  • 24 Church Street, Falmouth TR11 3EG

Still Life

Our first exhibition of 2025 will be held at Poly Falmouth from 11-15 March. The show will feature around 20 of our membership, with varied interpretations of the theme of Still Life and works in all mediums.

Exploring stillness. In this exhibition, we explore and expand the Still Life genre by inviting artists to think about stillness, be it physical, emotional or conceptual. From the quiet beauty of everyday objects simply gathered, arranged and captured to glimpsed moments of stillness in the natural world to abstract representations of emotional stillness, we ask what it means to be still in a time of constant motion and flux.

We would love to see you at the exhibition and if you are around on Tuesday 11th we are having a PV from 5-7, with free drinks and nibbles. All welcome.

  • 23rd November 2024 to 29th November 2024

Winter Exhibition

Our Winter group exhibition was held in the historic Crypt Gallery in St Ives from 23rd to 29th of November 2024. This was our final, and biggest, show of the year.

Over 40 of our group exhibited...this was truly a gathering of all the talents, with work in a variety of styles, media and sizes.


Summer Exhibition

Our Summer group exhibition was held at Falmouth Poly in the Spring Gallery from 9th to 13th July 2024.

The exhibition, entitled Colours of Summer, featured the work of a number of our group members, with works in a variety of media.

There is also an online version of the exhibition HERE on our website.

Artist Residency

As part of our ongoing collaboration with Truro High School for Girls, artists Sharon Bruster, Natalie Day, Sue Spence, Sarah Ransley and Roberta Hopkins had a two week residency in the school in June 2024.

Each artist used the time to pursue individual projects as well as working alongside each other and facilitating student art sessions.  The Residency was another opportunity to inspire and support the development of young female artists in our County, and a wonderful outreach opportunity for us.

There was a crazy Still Life setup for girls and the artists to make drawings about, two...

Concertina Collaboration

Our first creative project was a concertina collaboration.

Pairs of artists made concertina books together.

These books were developed over time – often being posted back and forth between collaborators over several months, with each artist responding to their partner’s work at each stage, to build up layers and layers of marks which ultimately create a rich and exciting collaborative work of art – which bears no resemblance to the first tentative marks on blank paper!

This process is hugely creative and exploratory. It involves trust between creative partners and the ability to let...

Spring Exhibition

Our Spring Exhibition, Driven to Abstraction: Exploring Internal and External Landscapes was curated by artists Sharon Bruster and Fran Marks, and showed works by 17 members of the group.

Sharon said: “A range of thought-provoking abstract works in different mediums, including paintings, mixed media, photography, printmaking, textiles and collage, were selected for this exhibition.

“With myriad interpretations of the theme, we were excited to hold our second show at the beautiful Art Gallery in the Truro High School for Girls grounds.

 “The show was part of our ongoing collaboration...

Prime Women Artists' Textiles Group

In September 2023, textile artist Sue Spence invited group members who used textiles in their work to join her to share their work and practice. Six artists gathered in the first meeting and the Textile Artists subgroup, now numbering fourteen, have since met twice more.

The artists currently in the group work with yarn and textiles in diverse ways including hand or machine embroidery, fabric or mixed media collage, wet felting, needle felting, patchwork, crochet and weaving. Some are primarily painters, whose work includes stitched elements, or artists still experimenting or considering...