Tate St Ives
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Cornwall | |
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| Type: | Art gallery |
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| Grid reference: | SW51654077 |
| Location: | 50°12’53"N, 5°28’57"W |
| Town: | St Ives |
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| Address: | Godrevy Terace |
| Built 1988-1993 | |
| Art gallery | |
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| Owned by: | Tate |
| Website: | www.tate.org.uk/stives |
Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, in the west of Cornwall, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. It was created by and is owned as part of the network of galleries now known as 'Tate'. Tate had also taken over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980.
Tate St Ives was built between 1988 and 1993 on the site of an old gasworks, it now receives around 210,000 visitors each year. 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.
History
In 1980, Tate started to manage the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, dedicated to a St Ives artist closely linked with Henry Moore. The group decided to open a museum in the town, to showcase local artists, especially those already held in their collection.[1]
In 1988, the group purchased a former gas works and commissioned architects Eldred Evans and David Shalev, to design a building for the gallery in a similar style to the gas works. The building included a rotunda (architecture)|rotunda at the centre of the gallery, looking over Porthmeor Beach and was completed in 1993. The gallery opened in June 1993; it was the second of the Tate's regional galleries, following Tate Liverpool. It had received more than 120,000 visitors before the end of the year.[1]
In January 2015, the Tate St Ives received £3.9 million to build an extension to the existing gallery, with the intention of doubling the available space by adding a 12,917 square feet extension, with the original architect's involvement.[2]
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.[3] [4] Later that month, the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that the new Tate building had reached the shortlist for the 2018 Stirling Prize.[5]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "History of Tate". http://www.tate.org.uk/about/who-we-are/history-of-tate#stives. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ↑ "BAM moves onto main construction at Tate St Ives extension". The Construction Index. 15 June 2015. http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/bam-moves-onto-main-construction-at-tate-st-ives-extension. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ↑ Kennedy, Maev (5 July 2018). "'Breathtakingly beautiful': Tate St Ives wins museum of the year award". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/05/breathtakingly-beautiful-tate-st-ives-wins-museum-of-the-year-award. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
- ↑ "Tate St Ives wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018". https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/museum-of-the-year. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
- ↑ "Six of the best: Amazing buildings on RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2r7cG42lMnjS72SSsPmNzwC/six-of-the-best-amazing-buildings-on-riba-stirling-prize-shortlist. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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