Richard Long - A Moving World
13 July - 13 October 2002
Richard Long has been known since the 1960s for his fresh and original approach to making landscape art. For this exhibition Long made new pieces including Slate Atlantic - a sculpture made from Delabole slate, and wall works made from Cornish driftwood.
Naum Gabo - In Space and Time
13 July - 13 October 2002
Naum Gabo was one of the pioneers of abstract, constructed sculpture. In Space and Time was drawn from the Tate Collection and selected by Tate Collection curator, Sean Rainbird. It included many previously unseen prints and drawings, the highlight of these being the Opus 1-12 print series, made late in Gabo's career. Also on display was a series of his works in stone.
Kosho Ito - VIRUS
13 July - 13 October 2002
Kosho Ito uses clay to create large-scale installations using firing techniques developed for the ceramic industry. He made two new works for Tate St Ives - Seafolds and Earthfolds, both exploring the inherent properties of clay in subtle and engaging new ways.
Digital Works - Real Life
21 October 2002 - 26 January 2003
An exhibition of film and video art that brought together pieces from some of the leading practitioners in the world, including Tracey Emin, Gilbert and George, Susan Hiller, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, Bill Viola, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor Wood.
Terry Frost - Installation - Contrasts in Red, Black and White
8 February - 11 May 2003
A sculptural dimension was added to this multi-part work in the form of cubes in red, black and white placed in relation to the paintings - an idea Frost said he had wanted to realise for years. This exhibition also included paintings made from 1954-56 in Leeds.
Artists on Artists
8 February - 11 May 2003
Selected by Terry Frost from the Tate Collection, this display included work by Alan Londes, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Delaunay, Roger Hilton, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman and Frost himself.
Victoria Morton, Julie Roberts, Jim Lambie - Painting Not Painting
8 February - 11 May 2003
This exhibition included Jim Lambie's Zobop, Julie Roberts' Jack series and Everyday Friction by Victoria Morton.
The Pier Arts Centre Collection - Homecoming
8 February 2003 - 9 May 2004
This collection was formed by Margaret Gardiner, a close friend and supporter in the early days of the St Ives artists. It includes particularly fine examples of work by Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis and Peter Lanyon. Normally housed at the Pier Centre on the island of Orkney, the collection was exceptionally lent to Tate St Ives, bringing many of the works back to the place where they were made.
Barbara Hepworth - Centenary Exhibition
19 May - 12 October 2003
The exhibition bought together small groups of works on an intimate scale, to contrast with the larger works on display at the Barbara Hepworth Museum. Early carvings and marble works were shown alongside drawings previously unseen.
Alan Davie - Jingling Space
25 October 2003 - 25 January 2004
This exhibition showed the range and beauty of Davie's highly coloured and cosmological works. Moving from the 1930s to the present, this exhibition included works on paper, key oil paintings from the 1950s and 1960s and a display of works from each following decade to 2002.
Artists on Artists
25 October 2003 - 25 January 2004
Selected from the Tate collection by Alan Davie were works by: Jackson Pollock, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Klee, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Davie himself.
Partou Zia - Entering the Visionary Zone
25 October 2003 - 25 January 2004
Partou Zia was the first recipient of the Tate St Ives Artist's Residency Programme. During six months spent at Porthmeor Studio number 5, she produced a series of new paintings in response to the work of William Blake, an artist of spiritual significance to her.
William Blake
25 October 2003 - 25 January 2004
A selection of works from the Tate Collection chosen by Partou Zia.
Richard Slee - Panorama
25 October 2003 - 25 January 2004
The forms Slee creates, such as animals and vessels, are an ironic deconstruction of normal
ceramic practice. For this exhibition he presented a new and unique installation incorporating eighty rabbits for the Tate St Ives ceramics display space.
Karl Weschke - Beneath a Black Sky
7 February - 9 May 2004
This exhibition looked at figures, landscape and atmosphere, and bought together a number of key works including Portrait of Lore, Fighting Dogs and The Fire Eater. A group of drawings not previously exhibited, The Egyptian Suite, was shown in the café.
Artists on Artists
7 February - 9 May 2004
A selection of works chosen from the Tate Collection by Karl Weschke included works by: Marino Marini, Frank Dobson, JMW Turner, James Ward, Max Beckmann, John Crome and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
Ged Quinn - Utopia Dystopia
7 February - 9 May 2004
The second recipient of the Tate St Ives Artist's Residency, Ged Quinn worked on a series of landscape paintings. Inspired by Richard Wilson, Claude Lorrain and others, these enigmatic images include contemporary elements as well as quoted passages of paint from a number of historical works.
The Wingfield Digby Collection - Leach and His Circle
7 February - 9 May 2004
A collection of ceramics loaned by the Wingfield Digby Estate included work by Bernard Leach and contemporaries such as Soji Hamada and Michael Cardew.
Grayson Perry - Collection Intervention
7 February - 9 May 2004
Works were selected by Perry from his Turner Prize winning display at Tate Britain. The pots included We've Found the Body of Your Child and Sex, Drugs and Earthenware and were displayed amid the Pier Arts Centre Collection as an intervention into these works. Perry's Coming out Dress was also shown.
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