Newlyn Art Gallery — Attraction in Penzance

We had a wonderful coffee and cakes in the cafe area before visiting the exhibit itself. I can't say that I was taken back with the exhibit itself, but it is classed as a contemporary gallery. Personally, it felt like the main hall could have been used to display more than one artist to try and appeal to more than the die-hard art lover. I can't say I would visit the exhibit again, but I would happily spend a few hours there with a coffee and cake (well priced and lovely too). The play area was well supplied and the shop section gave a good range of purchases, so we ended up coming away with some unusual presents for...

Sadly we missed the Grayson Perry tapestries. We saw posters advertising the exhibit at Newlyn art gallery and decided to visit Penzance for tea and cakes before very excitedly making our way to Newlyn only to discover that the tapestries were at the Exchange which is in Penzance. Although the sites are only a short distance apart we hadn't got enough time to return to Penzance and as the gallery isn't open every day we had no opportunity to see the tapestries. I realise that we should have read the small print on the poster but felt disappointed that it...

This gallery was absolutely awful, I do not recommend going. Their exhibitions are very, very limited as they only seemed to have one artist on display and the artist that was there had art that was...of a certain taste so say the least. When we asked for a refund they completely refused and they looked at us like we were complete idiots. If they had kindly returned our money we might have had a completely different experience. Sadly, we resorted to walking out and writing an awful review on a gallery that does not respect their...