Website: sovayberriman.co.uk
Insta: @sovayberriman @mesklabrewyondrudh

Sovay works in participatory and collaborative ways to approach important social themes. Her projects ask questions, seek alternative viewpoints, and forge new connections, resulting in work that is multi-layered and multi-faceted, yet accessible and relatable. Since 2022 she has been working on MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh, an Arts Council England-funded project exploring contemporary Cornish identity and culture, with an initial focused engagement with communities of Redruth.

Throughout the summer and early autumn 2023, Sovay will host workshops to make sculptures painted in colours that connect to participants’ identities, and to find the suitable Kernewek/Cornish language words for those colours. All of this will contribute to Sovay’s final exhibition at Flamm – featuring items made within the workshops, words of colours in Kernewek/Cornish language, and her first publicly exhibited film.

Insta: @patrick.lowry269

Patrick Lowry’s work is predominantly installation-based, often site-specific responding to the particular context. Much of the work relates to our relationship with the built environment, public and domestic places and spaces. and how these environments both reflect and affect the way we conduct our lives. Using processes of replication and displacement he explores how, by moving aspects of an environment to a new context, this may allow a renewed assessment of the subject and its relevance, both culturally and in its physicality.

For Flamm, Lowry is imagining how the future of Redruth might look if it appropriated Rapid Transport systems that exist and are being developed in cities and large urban conurbations around the country. He is exploring utilizing some of the existing, old mining network to create connectivity between Redruth and Camborne, and referencing the route of the electric tramway that existed between 1902 and 1934.

Website: abigailreynolds.com
Insta: @abigailreynoldsartist

Abigail uses montage techniques of layering and folding to destabilise singular ideas of cultural and political ecologies. She often works in dialogue with disciplines and places outside the art world; a silver band, geologists, libraries. In 2021, Abigail was commissioned to make public artwork ‘Tre’ for Kresen Kernow in Redruth.

For Flamm, Abigail proposes a project that links Cornish granite, Carn Marth quarry, sound and music production. Electronic musicians, sound engineers and sound artists will be invited to be part of the process, working within specific references and context, making work that will influence the outcome and the final event.

Website: thentrythis.org
Insta: @then_try_this

Then Try This likes making complex stuff easier to access or understand – whether that’s by designing a new piece of open-source research equipment, making a game to understand a complex scientific concept, or running workshops to help people work better together across boundaries. All their work is open source, and much of it is rooted in rural issues.

For Flamm, Then Try This extends an invitation to experiment with the minerals of Cornwall and asks the question: Can we create noisy electronic instruments with semiconducting crystals in discarded mine waste? Together with participants, they will dismantle the myths of cyberspace and the metaverse, and show how the digital world is fully grounded in materials such as galena, quartz, pyrite, chalcopyrite, cassiterite and gold.