Tate St Ives Explained

Tate St Ives
Established:1993
Pushpin Map:Southwest Cornwall
Coordinates:50.2147°N -5.4825°W
Location:St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
Visitors:278,747 (2019)[1]
Website:www.tate.org.uk/stives
Network:Tate

Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980.

The Tate St Ives was built between 1988 and 1993 on the site of an old gasworks and looks over Porthmeor beach. In 2015, it received funding for an expansion, doubling the size of the gallery, and closed in October 2015 for refurbishment. The gallery re-opened in October 2017 and is among the most visited attractions in the UK.

History

In 1980, Tate group started to manage the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, dedicated to the life and work of the renowned St Ives artist. The group decided to open a museum in the town, to showcase local artists, especially those already held in their collection.[2]

In 1988, the group purchased a former gasworks and commissioned architects Eldred Evans and David Shalev, to design a building for the gallery in a similar style to the gas works.[3] The building began in 1991, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Henry Moore Foundation and donations from the public. It included a rotunda at the centre of the gallery, looking over Porthmeor Beach and was completed in 1993. The gallery opened in June 1993, the second of the Tate's regional galleries after Tate Liverpool, receiving more than 120,000 visitors before the end of the year.

In 1999, to celebrate the solar eclipse (as St Ives was predicted to be the first British town to witness the event), Tate St Ives held an exhibition called As Dark as Light, exhibiting work from Garry Fabian Miller, Gia Edzveradze and Yuko Shiraishi alongside art from local schoolchildren.[4]

In 2012, Tate St Ives ran a competition for a design team to build a major extension, which was won by Jamie Fobert Architects.[5] In January 2015, the Tate St Ives received £3.9 million to contribute towards the new extension,[6] with the intention of doubling the available space in order to accommodate tourists throughout the year, without having to close between exhibitions. The building contract was awarded to BAM Construct UK, who would be adding a extension designed by Jamie Fobert, with the original architect's involvement in works to the existing building.[7] [8] The Tate St Ives was closed in October 2015 for these works and remained closed for two years.[9]

Tate St Ives reopened in October 2017,[10] with the inaugural exhibition in the new 500m2 gallery a solo show by contemporary sculptor Rebecca Warren, 'All that heaven allows'.[11]

In July 2018, Tate St. Ives won the Art Fund Museum of the Year Prize, beating the other shortlisted museums (the Brooklands Museum, the Ferens Art Gallery, Glasgow Women's Library and the Postal Museum, London) to the £100,000 prize.[12] [13] Later that month, the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that the new Tate building had reached the shortlist for the 2018 Stirling Prize.[14] It was beaten by the Bloomberg Building in London, by Foster + Partners.[15]

Exhibitions

Notable exhibitions prior to the refurbishment include:

Since the refurbishment, Tate St Ives has showcased the following exhibitions:

Provenance, 20 October 2018 – 6 May 2019[24]

Strange Attractors, 24 October 2020 - 3 May 2021,[30] later extended until 26 September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[31] [32]

Art & Life, 26 November 2022 - 1 May 2023[34]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions . www.alva.org.uk . 4 November 2020.
  2. Web site: History of Tate. Tate. 12 August 2016.
  3. Web site: History of Tate St. Ives . Tate . 30 March 2019.
  4. Web site: Designs on the eclipse . . 31 March 2019 . 29 July 1999.
  5. Web site: Fobert wins Tate St Ives project for a second time . 9 February 2012 .
  6. News: Kirste Smith. CM. Government investment in Tate St Ives considered money well spent. 12 August 2016. The Cornishman. 24 March 2016.
  7. News: Parks. Liz. Tate St Ives to close for eight months for building work. 12 August 2016. Western Morning News. 13 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150824021823/http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Tate-St-Ives-close-months-building-work/story-27602107-detail/story.html. 24 August 2015. dead. dmy-all.
  8. News: BAM moves onto main construction at Tate St Ives extension. 12 August 2016. The Construction Index. 15 June 2015.
  9. News: Kriste Smith. CM. St Ives' Tate Gallery reopening delayed by ten months. 12 August 2016. The Cornishman. 3 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160922212230/http://www.cornishman.co.uk/st-ives-8217-tate-gallery-reopening-delayed/story-28853422-detail/story.html. 22 September 2016. dead. dmy-all.
  10. Web site: The new Tate St Ives opens – Press Release .
  11. Web site: When the Light Shifts . 30 October 2017 .
  12. News: Kennedy . Maev . 'Breathtakingly beautiful': Tate St Ives wins museum of the year award . 17 July 2018 . The Guardian . 5 July 2018.
  13. Web site: Tate St Ives wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 . Art Fund . 17 July 2018.
  14. News: Six of the best: Amazing buildings on RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist . 19 July 2018 . BBC.
  15. Web site: RIBA Stirling Prize 2018 . RIBA . 30 March 2019.
  16. Web site: An ingenious potter, he took an unconventional approach to both his life and his work. The Guardian. 8 April 2009. Emmanuel Cooper. Emmanuel Cooper.
  17. Web site: Simon Carroll. Tate St Ives. 8 October 2005. 1 October 2021.
  18. Web site: Clark . Martin . Bracewell . Michael. Rowlands . Alun. The Dark Monach: Magic and Modernity in British Art . Tate . Tate . 20 May 2021.
  19. Web site: Clark . Martin . Sturgis . Daniel. Shalgosky . Sarah. Daniel Sturgis . The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now . Tate . Tate . 20 May 2021.
  20. Web site: Rebecca Warren All That Heaven Allows . Tate . 8 October 2018.
  21. Web site: Virginia Woolf An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings . Tate . 8 October 2018.
  22. Web site: Patrick Heron . Tate . 8 October 2018.
  23. Web site: Nashashibi / Skaer Thinking through other artists . Tate . 8 October 2018.
  24. Web site: Amie Siegel: Provenance . Tate St. Ives . 18 February 2019.
  25. Web site: Tate announces 2019 exhibition highlights . Tate . 8 October 2018.
  26. News: Michael. Bird. 2019-07-20. Huguette Caland, Tate St Ives, review: joy of sex loses its rosy intimacy. The Telegraph. 26 May 2019. 0307-1235. www.telegraph.co.uk.
  27. Web site: 2019-07-20. Lebanese modernist master Huguette Caland makes British debut. The National. 22 May 2019 .
  28. Web site: First major exhibition of Naum Gabo to be held in the UK for over 30 years . . 29 February 2020 . 28 October 2019.
  29. Web site: Freeman . Laura . Spiralling tributes to air, flight and lift-off: Naum Gabo at Tate St Ives reviewed . . 29 February 2020 . 1 February 2020.
  30. Web site: Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors . Tate . 7 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200925001924/https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/haegue-yang-strange-attractors. 25 September 2020.
  31. Web site: Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors . Tate . 7 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210320040703/https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/haegue-yang-strange-attractors. 20 March 2021.
  32. Web site: Vanessa Thorpe . 'We're ready for you': English galleries and museums throw open their doors . . 7 August 2021 . 16 May 2021.
  33. Web site: Petrit Halilaj . Tate . 7 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210725102011/https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/petrit-halilaj . 25 July 2021 . live.
  34. Web site: Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life . . 29 March 2023.
  35. Web site: Casablanca Art School . . 29 March 2023.

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