Porthmeor & Trewarveneth Invites

December, 2025

In the twenty years since Melanie Stidolph and Mandy Lee Jandrell first met, the two artists have built an ongoing dialogue through their practices, returning periodically to exhibit together and exchange ideas. For this sharing at Porthmeor Studios, Stidolph invited Jandrell to spend time working side by side in the studio, using the space as a catalyst to explore new territories within their respective practices.

The display presented new works from both artists at a pivotal moment in their development, offering an insight into a shared creative conversation that has evolved over two decades. Their works create a dialogue that is both reflective and quietly subversive, inviting viewers to look again—and differently—at the familiar.

For this event Jandrell created Still Life, a photographic series that gathers dreamlike, atmospheric images that hover between the recognisable and the abstract, occupying an uncanny space where forms slip in and out of clarity. Together, these fragmentary moments create a quiet, non‑linear visual experience that invites viewers to linger in states of heightened attention and perceptual ambiguity.

Stidolph presented new works printed onto fabric, part of the developing body of work Turning to Stone which is forming through writing, 16mm filming and collaborative portrait making. The three prints were hung from the ceiling and connected to each other with red thread and silver magnets. The threads and sculptural pulls on the fabric gave form to the ‘tender tension’ in Stidolph’s practice.