Ray's Sheds gathers Jem Southam's long photographic study of the working sheds of the reclusive Cornish sculptor Ray Exworth (1930–2015). Exworth was Head of Sculpture at Falmouth School of Art from 1959 to 1974 and, after stepping back from teaching, retreated to his cottage in west Cornwall to make work entirely outside the public eye. Across the back garden, outbuildings and lean-tos he assembled The Circus, an extraordinary lifelong cycle of wooden box constructions, chalk drawings and sculptural ensembles, almost none of which was ever exhibited. Southam, a close friend of Ray and his wife Susie, visited the property regularly from the 1980s onwards; with their permission he made a quiet, patient record of the sculptures in situ—pressed against shed walls, stacked under tin roofs, gathered in shafts of dusty light. After Exworth's death, Southam returned to photograph the sheds again, with the memories of the maker and a renewed wish to share this hidden life's work. The book holds together both registers: the studio still alive with its inhabitant, and the studio as posthumous archive.