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Tate St Ives
© Colin Sanger
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The St Ives Art Colony: 1880-2004 |
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Tate St Ives opened in 1993 and received around 200,000 visitors in its first year, far exceeding the numbers anticipated. The concept of ‘cultural tourism’ was born and successfully replicated elsewhere; the economy of St Ives began to revive. Early exhibitions concentrated on surveys of the modern movement alongside specialist shows, and elsewhere in the town private art galleries exhibiting a wide range of artistic styles, began to proliferate.
Associated organisations were established or re-established such as the St Ives School of Painting, the Porthmeor Print Workshop above the Penwith Gallery, and the town’s Archive Study Centre which was created to provide research facilities for the history of the town from its earliest days.
St Ives has become a centre for a new generation of artists, inspired by a town little changed physically over the past century. With the Tate providing a focus for international avant garde art the colony seems likely to thrive for future generations.
Words: Janet Axten
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