Liam Jolly is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Redruth, Cornwall. He graduated from University College Falmouth with a MA in Fine Art Contemporary Practice in 2012 and has since exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2012 he co-founded artist run project space CMR, and in 2018 launched Auction House, an exhibition and project space, both in Redruth.
Auction House hosts a regular programme of public exhibitions and events, recently including Mark Leckey’s Music & Video Lab, a project that offered people aged 18-24 the opportunity to learn video editing and music production which Jolly co-led with the Turner Prize Winning Artist, in association with CAST in Helston.
His recent exhibitions, awards and residencies include : The Redruth Albany Club, Kingsgate Project Space London. 2023; Gatherings, SET, London. 2023; Four Four, Grays Wharf, Penryn. 2022; Pa-ra-did-dle (with Krystle Patel), TURF Projects, Croydon; Antibodies, Make Tank, Exeter; Your Foot in my Face and other Tectonic Strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London. 2021; Where is the Way to Arcadia? in So the Red Rose, Tyman & Webster, Arkadien festival, Ebersberg Kunstverein, Germany. 2021; Synethesia, Online Project 2020, Amen Brother, Exeter Phoenix Artists Moving Image Commission 2018; Structures, Newlyn Art Gallery.
He is also a co-director of Back Lane West in Redruth alongside artist Patrick Lowry, as well as music promoter and musician, currently playing drums in the band Disco Rococo.
Latest Past Events
between the other things, and the sorrys – Liam Jolly
89 89 Fore Street, RedruthNew and recent works by Redruth born artist Liam Jolly. With a practice that has included working with buskers, footballers and second-hand car dealers, his work is varied - making paintings, film, sound, poetry, performance, and public interventions — exploring archetypes, seriality, and personal biography.
between the other things, and the sorrys – Liam Jolly
89 89 Fore Street, RedruthNew and recent works by Redruth born artist Liam Jolly. With a practice that has included working with buskers, footballers and second-hand car dealers, his work is varied — making paintings, film, sound, poetry, performance, and public interventions - exploring archetypes, seriality, and personal biography.
