Exhibition Trail and Event at Pendennis

Over 970 people came to Pendennis on Heritage Open Day, Sunday 13th September 2009.
You can follow the exhibition trail here on the blog, and see around 60 new Creative portraits made by visitors in the Keep during the day.

The trail guide shows themed areas of portraits. [Click on the image to open it in a larger window.]

Each area has a separate 'post' below, with 'thumbnails' showing the portraits by theme.

Start at the Entrance with the 'Tour Guides' and then progress anti-clockwise from 'A Message In Time' around the castle site, ending up at the 1901 Barrack Block with 'Pendennis Perceptions'.

Then have a look at the new portraits made in the Keep, and take a photographic journey following the trail around the Pendennis Castle site.

'Tour Guides'

'A Message In Time'

Objects and Questions - making the Portraits

'Once Upon A Time'

'King of the Castle'

'Eating For Victory'

'Travelling The World'

'War and Peace'

'See The Sea'

'A Cup Of Tea'

'Sea And Semaphore'

'Pendennis Perceptions'

Creative Portraits in The Keep

During the day we ran drop-in sessions to make Creative Portraits with a twist...

Instead of the heritage-based 'questions' used over the summer, we used extracts from the 'answers' shown in the portraits to act as a prompt. Following a similar process, people of all ages chose a slip of paper from the top hat and wrote their own response on a board. Then they chose upto 3 objects from the Pendennis suitcase, and decided how to pose for their Creative Portrait - incorporating the board and objects with themself in the castle Keep.

Here are the resulting portraits - as shown in a slideshow in the Keep during the event.

Photographic Tour of the Pendennis Portraits Trail, 13th September.

Photos by Benny Evers and Jackie Calderwood

© Pendennis Portraits 2009