Belgrave St Ives Explained

Belgrave St Ives is a commercial art gallery,^[1] specialising in modern British and contemporary art in St Ives, Cornwall, southwest England.^[2] It gives emphasis to work produced in Cornwall from the 1930s onwards, when the town of St Ives became an internationally important modernist artistic centre.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

History

The original gallery opened in 1974 in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, London. It moved to various London locations, including Mayfair, St James's, and Belsize Park^[7] until a St Ives sister gallery opened in 1998. In 2010 the St Ives gallery became independent and continues as the sole remaining part of the Belgrave Gallery enterprise.^[8] It maintains a programme of exhibitions of work by major artists associated with the St Ives Modern Period,^[9] such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham^[10] and Terry Frost,^[11] as well as representing those formerly overshadowed in conventional accounts of Modern British art recently gaining greater prominence such as Sven Berlin.^[12] Works by other Modern British and contemporary artists are also shown.^{[13] [14]} An annual fixture is the St Ives Exhibition, usually in the early summer, which focuses on Modernist art^[15] produced by those associated with the town. In September 2020, after 22 years in St Ives, Belgrave St Ives relocated to a rural location in Towednack, just a couple of miles from St Ives.^{[16] [17] [18]}

Publications

The gallery has published books on the artists Terry Frost,^[19] John Milne^[20] and Patrick Hayman,^[21] as well as to accompany exhibitions of work from Sven Berlin,^[22] Terry Frost,^[23] and artists at the Camberwell College of Arts.^[24]

Notable exhibitions

Motcomb Street, Belgravia

• 15 March – 16 April 1978 Jewish Artists of Great Britain 1845–1945

Masons Yard, St James's

• 21 February – 29 March 1985 British Post-Impressionists and Moderns
• 10 May – 3 June 1988 Camberwell Artists of the ‘40s and ‘50s
• 12 October – 3 November 1989 Terry Frost
• 23 November – 15 December 1989 Sven Berlin- Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
• 15 March – 6 April 1990 Some of the Moderns
• 14 June – 13 July 1990 Jack Pender
• 17 October – 9 November 1990 Michael Canney- Paintings, Constructions and Reliefs
• 11–21 December 1990 Jacob Kramer 1892–1962
• 6–28 March 1991 Willi Soukop RA
• 5–27 March 1992 British Abstract Art of the ‘50s and ‘60s
• 17 June – 10 July 1992 Stephen Gilbert- Sculpture of the ‘60s and Works on Paper

England's Lane, Belsize Park

• 15 March – 5 April 2001 Conroy Maddox- A Surrealist Odyssey

St Ives

• 7–30 November 2015 40 Years of Painting- Camberwell Students and Teachers 1945–1985
• 10 September – 3 October 2016 Wilhelmina Barns-Graham- St Andrews and St Ives
• 19 June – 15 July 2017 Terry Frost- A Book of Ideas

Artists

^[25]

Modern British and St Ives	Contemporary
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham	Virginia Bounds
Anthony Benjamin	Bob Bourne
	John Emanuel
	Anthony Frost
Michael Canney^[26] ^[27]	Luke Frost
	Ffiona Lewis
	Jason Lilley
	Padraig Macmiadhachain
	Felicity Mara^[28]
	Christopher Marvell^[29] ^[30]
	Alice Mumford
	Brian Rice
Ben Nicholson
Kate Nicholson
Victor Pasmore
William Scott
Michael Snow
Alfred Wallace
John Wells
Bryan Wynter

External links

• Gallery website

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Belgrave St Ives St Ives Cornwall. St Ives Cornwall. 6 September 2017.
2. News: Blackborow. Richard. Padraig Mac Miadhachain obituary. . 6 September 2017. 23 April 2017.
3. Web site: St Ives School – Art Term Tate. Tate Etc.. 6 September 2017.
4. Web site: The Gallery – Belgrave St Ives. Belgravestives.co.uk.
5. Book: Bird. Michael. The St Ives Artists- A Biography of Place and Time. 2016. Lund Humphries. 9781848221857.
6. Web site: The shape of things to come IOL Travel. 6 September 2017.
7. Book: isbn:0853319669 – Google Search. 6 September 2017.
8. Web site: Exhibitions – Belgrave St Ives. Belgravestives.co.uk.
9. Web site: 36 Hours in... St Ives. The Telegraph. 6 September 2017.
10. Book: Gooding. Mel. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Movement and Light Imag(in)ing Time. 2005. Tate Publishing. 1854375911.
11. Book: Bristow. Robert. Terry Frost: A Painter's Life. 2013. Sansom and Co. 9781906593780.
12. Web site: The Dark Monarch: Magic and modernity in British art – Exhibition at Tate St Ives. Tate Etc.. 26 March 2019.
13. Book: isbn:1908326670 – Google Search. 6 September 2017.
14. Web site: Barbara Hepworth's St Ives: A tour of the inspirational town as a Tate. The Independent. 6 September 2017. 23 June 2015.
15. Book: 978-0714874166. Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture. Albert Hill. Matt Gibbered. 19 June 2017 . Phaidon Press . 6 September 2017.
16. Web site: Byng. Malaika. St Ives: Seaside with a light touch. The Daily Telegraph. 8 July 2009 . 6 September 2017.
17. Book: Baron. Wendy. Collins. Ian. Varley. William. The Art of Jeremy Gardiner: Unfolding Landscape. 2013. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 9781848221017. en.
18. Book: Bird. Michael. The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time. 2008. Lund Humphries. 9780853319566. 6 September 2017. en.
19. Book: Gooding. Mel. Terry Frost: Act and Image- Works on Paper through Six Decades. 2000. The Belgrave Gallery. 0906647053.
20. Book: Davies. Peter. The Sculpture of John Milne. 2000. The Belgrave Gallery. 0906647045.
21. Book: Gooding. Mel. Patrick Hayman: Visionary Artist. 2005. The Belgrave Gallery. 0906647088.
22. Book: Sven Berlin- Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. 1989 . The Belgrave Gallery. 0906647037.
23. Book: Terry Frost- A Book of Ideas. The Belgrave Gallery. 9780956890689.
24. Book: 40 Years of Painting: Camberwell Students and Teachers 1945-1985. The Belgrave Gallery. 9780956890696.
25. Web site: Artists – Belgrave St Ives. Belgravestives.co.uk.
26. Web site: Exhibitions. List of Michael Canney's solo and group shows.. Michaelcanney.co.uk. 6 September 2017.
27. Web site: Casole d'Elsa – Michael Canney – St Ives Exhibition 2017 – Belgrave St Ives. Belgrave St Ives. 6 September 2017.
28. Web site: Exhibitions. Felicity Mara. 6 September 2017. 4 August 2013.
29. Web site: Christopher Marvell. Medicigallery.co.uk.
30. http://www.christophermarvell.com/.../2012marvell%20belgrave%20full%20catalogue.swf