Tate St. Ives
The institution's main areas are: Modern and Contemporary Art, Community, Residencies, Partnerships.
About Tate St Ives
St Ives, a small Cornish town on the southwest coast of England, perhaps seems an unlikely site for a major art gallery. However, its artistic connections date back to Victorian times when numerous artists came to St Ives to paint, attracted by its special quality of light. Artists associated with the town include Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo, Alfred Wallis and Mark Rothko.
Tate had formed a close link with St Ives when it took over the management of the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1980. By the middle of the decade it was decided a gallery should be built there to show works by artists who had lived or worked in St Ives, loaned from the collection.
Artworks are continually refreshed across multiple collection display galleries at Tate St Ives. These include around 25-30 individual artwork changes each year, as well as spotlight displays of larger collection works and/or new acquisitions for the Tate collection.
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