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Melanie Stidolph

Artist Squares: Dark Shining Wolf

2026

Trenoweth (65 x 65cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Image caption: Trenoweth (65 x 65cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Trenoweth (65 x 65cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Image caption: Trenoweth (65 x 65cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Square photographic image with black border. Still from a 16mm film - orange light leeks visible on the bottom half of the image. Image is of a piece of stone with a carved hole on the left hand side.
Trenoweth, Dark Shining Wolf

Image caption: Trenoweth, Dark Shining Wolf

Kennack Sands (65 x 65cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Image caption: Kennack Sands (65 x 65cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Kennack Sands (50 x 50cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf X THE WAD, 2026

Image caption: Kennack Sands (50 x 50cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf X THE WAD, 2026

Photograph of a rock with a black border. Dark image with high contrast.
Dark Shining Wolf, Kennack Sands

Image caption: Dark Shining Wolf, Kennack Sands

Treyarnon (65 x 65 cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Image caption: Treyarnon (65 x 65 cm), Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Treyarnon, Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Image caption: Treyarnon, Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf, 2026

Square photographic image with black border. Two arms of a white woman floating in a shallow pool with weed.
Dark Shining Wolf, Treyarnon

Image caption: Dark Shining Wolf, Treyarnon

Kennack Sands., Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf. Model: Weasel.

Image caption: Kennack Sands., Artist Squares, Dark Shining Wolf. Model: Weasel.

Trenoweth, model: Weasel

Image caption: Trenoweth, model: Weasel

Treyarnon, model: Weasel

Image caption: Treyarnon, model: Weasel

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Dark Shining Wolf is a new venture, an alter ego that comes from the meanings of my three given names.

Working from Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, the influence of Hepworth and other modernist artists is felt strongly in the town. The Dark Shining Wolf collection is inspired by scarves from the textile company Ascher (London) Ltd. In 1946 the company commissioned leading British and European artists, including Barbara Hepworth (a great headscarf wearer herself) and Henry Moore, to make scarf designs, or ‘artist squares’. This new collection engages directly with this legacy.

This first collection of 3 scarves – Treyarnon, Kennack Sands and Trenoweth, feature stills from 16mm films of rock, pools and quarries in Cornwall. These sites have special meaning for me – for making work and for losing myself in the elemental. Analogue film has a unique place in the history of St Ives – the Barnes Museum of Cinematography was Britain’s first film museum, established and run by John and Carmen Barnes from 1963 to 1986. The collection of pre-cinema and early film equipment, including magic lanterns and projectors was housed in a building on Fore St that was once a cinema itself.

Scarves are for dressing up, for taming your hair in the wind, for matching with your whippet (my dog Lincoln would have loved this) and showing solidarity by wearing shared symbols. Kennack Sands is modelled here by Weasel, owned by Izzy and mascot to the podcast Down to a Fine Art.

Designed in Cornwall and printed in London on silky lightweight fabric made from recycled plastic bottles. Dark Shining Wolf artist squares are printed and sewn in small batches and sent to you with delight.

Please visit my online SHOP to buy direct from my studio in St Ives.

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