Overrated Cornwall is a tongue-in-cheek project by Cornish artist and photographer Sally Mitchell, 42, who lives in the fishing village of Mevagissey, a few miles from St Austell on Cornwall’s south coast. Mitchell first designed the graphic images on which the comic pieces are based in 2013, inspired by the seminal 1930s-1950s travel posters designed by artist Brian Cook for clients including Travel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and LMS/LNER railways, which feature simple lines and bright, blocky colours.
The spark for Overrated Cornwall, which has garnered tens of thousands of fans on social media (where Mitchell describes herself as a “creator of rubbish Tripadvisor-inspired artwork”) came in 2022, when Mitchell was recovering from a bout of Covid.
“In my fevered state, I ended up down a Tripadvisor rabbit hole, poring over the one-star reviews of my home town,” the artist recalls, “and I became more and more shocked by what people were writing about Mevagissey, which is a simple little Cornish fishing village and is really quite beautiful.”
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Publish date : 2023-09-26 03:00:00
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