PERRANUTHNOE is a small village on the South Coast of Cornwall, just East of Marazion, there is a Car Park and sloping access to a safe sandy beach and the beachside Cabin Cafe. It has The Victoria Inn a superb multi award winning pub, which serves super food both lunchtimes & evenings, - a Church dating back as far as 1160. The Lynfield Centre which houses The Cowhouse Gallery, The Peppercorn Cafe and a hairdressers.

Sunday, 19 August 2012

A visit by Nowhere Island - But is it Art ?

Nowhereisland is a Situations project led by artist Alex Hartley, one of 12 Artist Taking the Lead projects for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad funded by a grant of £500,000 Arts Council England. It arrived in Mount's Bay today on it's tour around the country.
Nowhereisland began in 2004, when artist Alex Hartley visited the High Arctic with the climate change organisation Cape Farewell. Here he discovered a new island that revealed itself from the melting ice of a retreating glacier.
With the permission of the Governor of Svalbard, Hartley removed the top layers of sediment from the 42-metre island, sailed it into international waters where it was declared a new nation, then it was shipped back to the UK. The removed section of moraine was then installed on an enormous barge and formed into a sculpture, giving the impression of a floating island.
Posted by Perranlady at 22:01

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