Penny MacBeth and Jude Munden
Affiliation: Freelance Artists
Penny MacBeth and Jude Munden are both freelance artists living and working in Cornwall. Both have an interest in collaborative projects and in local involvement, often working with parts of the community who have been overlooked both as participants, subjects and as an audience. Wherever possible, and alongside traditional art venues, they aim to show work in a broad range of other contexts to reach out to all parts of the community. This has included high street shop windows, music venues, healthcare settings, schools and universities.
Multi Sory is a travelling installation of illuminated box portraits dioramas which pairs twelve Cornish artists with twelve local people who were born outside the UK but who now make their home in Cornwall. Through a shared process, forging new relationships between artists and collaborators, each box has been devised to present that person’s unique identity, collectively illustrating the diversity which enriches our community and demands to be more widely celebrated in a world where people are not always respected, listened to or understood. Through both the artists and collaborators the installation finds its roots in 17 different countries.