Lally MacBeth Spell of Sound
Sun 28 Sept
|Helston Old Chapel
Lally will open the space on Sunday with a Spell of Sound, a piece of writing designed to commemorate and uphold Pamela Colman Smith.


Time & Location
28 Sept 2025, 10:30 – 11:30
Helston Old Chapel, Meneage Rd, Helston TR13 8BH, UK
About the event
Lally MacBeth Spell of Sound
Lally will open the space on Sunday with a Spell of Sound, a piece of writing designed to commemorate and uphold Pamela Colman Smith.
We are delighted to announce Lally MacBeth is part of our programme accompanying our exhibition 'Resonance of Being' at Helston Old Chapel. Lally will open the space on Sunday with a Spell of Sound, a piece of writing designed to commemorate and uphold Pamela Colman Smith. To remember her. To cast a spell to enshrine her. An artist, writer and curator, MacBeth's work wanders the line between the real and the imaginary, taking in history, folklore, performance, ritual, and artifice along the way.
The Observer's Jude Rogers calls MacBeth's recent publication, 'The Lost Folk' 'a manifesto for British folk culture'. MacBeth herself states that 'by its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more difficult to resurrect.…