Our holiday studio programme creates immersive installations and play-based activities that offer self-directed art experiences for children, parents and carers. Each STUDIO DO responds to the themes and broader art movements of our exhibitions and collection displays, while providing a space to test out making, experiment with ideas and take time out from the galleries. Make, play, rest, and use the studio in your own way to explore art at Tate St Ives.
This October we welcome Leap then Look to transform STUDIO DO into a participatory sculpt, move and play space for half term. Led by artists Lucy Cran and Bill Leslie, visitors of all ages are invited to explore art through interaction, collaboration and making.
This marks the beginning of Palais Play, a three-year project between Tate St Ives and Leap then Look. This new families programme is inspired by Barbara Hepworth and developed as part of the re-imagining of the Palais de Danse , Hepworth’s second studio in St Ives.
Have fun exploring the galleries at Tate St Ives with our Explorer Backpacks and Tate Shapes activities or draw and explore with a free Sketchbook or Art Explorer card.
Leap Then Look
Leap Then Look create interactive art works, participatory projects, workshops and events. They work with people from a wide range of backgrounds, ages and cognitive differences creating vivid experiences of contemporary art; sculpture, photography, film, performance, mark-making and installation. They believe that contemporary art practice should and can be made available and accessible to everyone and that we can all benefit from engaging with new ways of looking, making and thinking.
Tate St Ives is located on Porthmeor Beach. There is a ramp up to the gallery entrance alongside stairs with a handrail.
There are lifts to all Levels of the gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Accessible and standard toilets are on Level 3, next to Gallery 6.
- A Changing Places toilet is on Level 3, next to Gallery 1.
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the information desk.
To help plan your visit to Tate St Ives, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.
For more information before your visit:
- Email visiting.stives@tate.org.uk
- Call +44 (0)173 679 6226
