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Teän Roberts

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Changeling 🧿 Serial Cultist 🌱 Amateur Lichenologist
Scilly Labyrinths Project
Isles of Scilly Museum
@royalcollegeofart 2023

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The Biggal-Fool character from our Scilly Labyrinths project - created as a counterpart-companion to the monstrous, Minotaur-inspired Bullhorn: guardian of the labyrinth. But unlike the violent Theseus, the Biggal-Fool must approach the monster (in our myth, a giant snail) with playful caution to win its trust and lead it from the maze, so that it may bestow its blessings. The Biggal-Fool’s jester motley was made from silk dyed with Scillonian elm and contact-dyed cotton left to moulder, and exhibited alongside these photographs of the fool at Giant’s Castle Maze.

I took this photo of myself with a tripod and I think it’s one of my favourite photos I’ve ever taken - not sure if I am more amazed by my lighting proficiency or my fiendishly strong core strength here! 📸💪 by @teanroberts

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6 months ago

We’re so excited to share these images of our Vanishing Labyrinths exhibition, which showcased all the work created for the Scilly Labyrinth Project. We installed this work in the beautiful Island Hall on the tiny island of St Agnes in Isles of Scilly (population around 80 people), because this is the home of Scilly’s oldest labyrinth - and to challenge the assumption that, just because a place is small and remote, it doesn’t mean it should miss out on high quality artworks, particularly when these artworks are inspired by this place.
The exhaustion was received really well and we had the most wonderful and special time!

Images show:
1. The silk labyrinth, each panel dyed with a different plant from the islands.
2. The entrance to the exhibition.
3. The exhibition introduction with a display case of sketchbooks and creative reference material.
4. The Old Hall - showcasing original artworks created for the project.
5. The Helical Seeker - a new sculptural work by @aeonlung.
6. Pebble details of the silk labyrinth
7. Costumes and artworks reimagining Scilly’s lost mazey folklore.
8. The Long Hall - showcasing the research side of the project; a deep dive into Scilly’s labyrinth heritage and the restoration of Giant’s Castle Maze.
9. The history and mythology of Troy Town Maze.
10. The labyrinth film screening - showing the process of the project.
11. The Biggal-Fool folkloric character.
12. Costume of the Bullhorn from the Giant’s Castle restoration.
13. The Helical Seeker sculpture as a portal.
14. The snail shell and banners.
15. Details of the silk labyrinth.
16. Poetry, movement drawings made with @fiveislandsacademy and our film documenting the project.
17. Spiralling ecological survey of Giant’s Castle Maze by @scillywildlife
18. Our labyrinth reference library! Featuring books by @cosmogyny @working_cloth @charlesfreger @rwhite1000 and lots more.
19. Labyrinth banners.
20. The silk labyrinth’s central Troy stone - hand carved by @aeonlung on St Agnes.

Eternal thanks to our funders @aceagrams and @heritagefunduk; to @iosculturalcentreandmuseum for their support; and to everyone who braved the storms to come and see the show. taken in St Agnes, Isles of Scilly by @teanroberts

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The Bullhorn character from our Scilly Labyrinths project. The Bullhorn was created as a reimagined Minotaur myth for the Isles of Scilly. Inspired by @charlesfreger‘s book of Wildermann folk costumes - documenting the archetype of the wild made manifest in the folk cultures of Europe. The Bullhorn materialises each Lammastide on Salakee Down to guard Giant’s Castle Maze until it can be soothed and tamed. The fabric for the costume was given its mouldy patina from contact dyed with plants from St Mary’s, left too long. It must be mended often, stitched with red thread (red is the colour of the Celtic otherworld) in order to contain the Bullhorn’s snail slime and stop all the luck from leaking out. The Bullhorn’s shell is made from enchanted papier-mâché. Both the shell and the slime suit were displayed in our exhibition Vanishing Labyrinths of the Isles of Scilly - at St Agnes Island Hall last September 🐌🌱 by @teanroberts

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7 months ago

New artists bio picture is it?

This was me steeping in a freezing, flooded kelp pit one very wet January to make Holdfast - an ongoing photographic and research project about kelping in the Isles of Scilly.

A series of photographs from this series will be exhibited at @newlynexchange from this afternoon (September 11th) until October 31st. by @teanroberts

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This Friday 🥂 JOIN US FOR A FIRST LOOK & MEET THE ARTISTS
Fri 11 Sep | 16.00–18.00
📍 Newlyn Art Gallery

Come along to Newlyn Art Gallery to celebrate the exhibitions from @sharp_the_artist, @alice_mahoney, @teanroberts & @mayaronchetti, before they officially open. Meet the artists and enjoy a glass of wine with us.
FREE entry | Everyone welcome! 💫

SHARP & Alice Mahoney in The Picture Room
◦ SHARP presents AWAKENING, a newly produced limited edition cassette tape recorded live on the To Moor The Sun Dykeland project in West Penwith, Cornwall, alongside photographs from the series Lavender Menace.
◦ Alice Mahoney presents a series of monoprints and small ceramic sculptures first shown as part of Soft Ruins in 2025.

Teän Roberts & Maya Ronchetti in The Studio
◦ Teän Roberts presents Holdfast, an imaginative photographic investigation into the folk-history of kelping in the Isles of Scilly.
◦ Maya Ronchetti presents Doom Strollers, a textile work made during an artist residency at East Quay, Somerset, in December 2025.

✦ All exhibitions officially open Saturday 12 September and run until 31 October and all works are available for sale.
📍 The Picture Room & The Studio, Newlyn Art Gallery | Open Tue–Sat, 10.00–17.00

Photo credits:
3/ courtesy of the artist
4/ Anne-Marie Bala
5/ Ruby Ingleheart
6/ courtesy of the artist taken in Newlyn Art Gallery by @teanroberts

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COMING SOON: TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS TO DISCOVER THIS AUTUMN

We’re excited to welcome four artists to Newlyn Art Gallery this September, with two new exhibitions exploring our relationships with place, nature, identity and the world around us. 🌿

📸 SHARP & Alice Mahoney
12 Sep – 31 Oct | The Picture Room
Exploring identity, landscape, material and the body through photography, sound, print and sculpture.

🌊 Teän Roberts & Maya Ronchetti
12 Sep – 31 Oct | The Studio
From the folk histories of kelping in the Isles of Scilly to our increasingly digital relationship with nature, these works invite us to look again at our connection to place and landscape.

Event:
🥂 JOIN US FOR A FIRST LOOK & MEET THE ARTISTS
Fri 11 Sep | 16.00–18.00
📍 Newlyn Art Gallery
Come along to Newlyn Art Gallery, see the exhibitions before they officially open, meet the artists and enjoy a glass of wine with us.

FREE entry | Everyone welcome! 💫

@alice_mahoney @teanroberts @sharp_the_artist @mayaronchetti taken in Newlyn Art Gallery by @teanroberts

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I’m so excited to share that the Scilly Labyrinths Project is coming to mainland Cornwall this week: On Friday August 7th the Falmouth Poly @polyfalmouth will be screening Vanishing Labyrinths of the Isles of Scilly alongside @goldentreecornwall’s Kerdroya film. Followed by a Q&A with myself, Layan and Will Coleman. The screening starts at 7:30pm, shown as part of The Poly’s Cornish Stories On Screen film season. With support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK. If you are in Falmouth, it would be wonderful to see you there - tickets via the link in my bio 🎥🐚🌀

Images are:
A little trailer of the Vanishing Labyrinths of the Isles of Scilly film 🎥
An aerial photo of Troy Town Maze on St Agnes 🌀
The Bullhorn and the Biggal-Fool Lammastide pageant starring myself and the talented and beautiful @lycanthropocene 🐌
Digital scans of Giant’s Castle Maze by @folkculturekernow 🧜🏻‍♂️
Restoring Giant’s Castle Maze with @aeonlung 🪏
Dancing the labyrinthine Snail Creep with @rowan_gatherer 🎻
Another of @folkculturekernow‘s digital scans of Giant’s Castle Maze 📀 taken in Poly Falmouth by @teanroberts

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2 months ago

Walk to the centre of the silk labyrinth with me? Each panel was dyed using a different plant of mineral from Scilly and the central stone was carved with the design of Troy Town Maze 🐚🌀🌱 taken in St Agnes, Isles of Scilly by @teanroberts

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5 months ago

Come and celebrate the ✨culmination✨ of the Scilly Labyrinth Project with us at a short film screening and artist talk about the project. It’s the last event in our schedule and we are so excited 🎉 We will be at the Old Town Inn on St Mary’s on Sunday Night starting at 8:30pm. Tickets at £7 via the @iosculturalcentreandmuseum link-in-bio under “Culture on Scilly Events” or if you can’t afford it, message us - nobody turned away for lack of funds - be there or be spiral! 🌀✨🎉 by @teanroberts

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The Helical Seeker character - created by @aeonlung and photographed by @teanroberts as part of the Vanishing Labyrinths project - uses his mysterious survey device to unite the ancient practice of dowsing with the modern technology of geophysics. These disciplines come from perhaps opposing worldviews - spiritual/scientific, empirical/intuitive - yet both have similar goals: to extend the ordinary senses, in order to see within the earth. To bring out truths that lie hidden there for the benefit of the present. The owner of this device has attempted to reconcile these worldviews and bring them together, however imperfectly, in order to comprehensively survey Giant’s Castle Maze. by @teanroberts

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If you walk to the centre of our silk labyrinth you will find a carved Troy Stone - knapped by @aeonlung from a sea-smoothed granite pebble. The carving depicts Troy Town Maze in its current form, referencing the carved labyrinths at Rocky Valley in Cornwall and the Troy Stone at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, that was reportedly used by a Cornish witch as an aid for entering into a magical trance-like state. 🌀 taken in St Agnes, Isles of Scilly by @teanroberts

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