Since April 2013 Roaming has operated independently under the direction of Roaming CIC. Roaming Penzance is now an art group with a very particular location and identity. We still meet at the Breadline Centre where we now operate in partnership with St.Petroc's Society.  We still talk and draw and paint and cook.  We sometimes venture beyond our base to visit exhibitions, to learn about the environment, to just enjoy being out together. 

Roaming Directors

Directors have legal and financial responsibility for the well-being of the organization.  They meet every few months to review what has been happening, and to think about what might happen next.  

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Roaming Associates

Roaming Associates are usually people who have come to Roaming as visiting artists, at our invitation, but they need not necessarily be. They are in any case people we have met in other contexts who share our core values, and who recognize the difficulty in maintaining such values in the face of pressure to become a more conventional “arts” organization. We recognize something of ourselves in one another.

We think of our associates essentially as research partners, people with whom we can exchange elements of experience and speculation, knowledge and methods in what is perhaps no more – or less – than an effort to locate ourselves with respect to contemporary art as a whole. Our associates are both like us and unlike us, broadly supportive and constructively critical. They embody models of practice that offer points of contact as well as contrast.  And so they are the ideal people to warn us of dangers, spark new insights, and shed light in directions we would otherwise not have turned.  

Accordingly, the hope is that we will keep one another in mind, be alert to possible conjunctions, opportunities on both sides…  We hope associates will check the “Research” area of the website from time to time – and that we will check theirs, and that we’ll detect resonances between them.