Tate St Ives is an

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in St Ives,

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, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980. The Tate St Ives was built between 1988 and 1993 on the site of an old gasworks and looks over Porthmeor beach. 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 and is among the most visited attractions in the UK.

History

In 1980,

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group started to manage the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, dedicated to the life and work of the renowned St Ives artist. The group decided to open a museum in the town, to showcase local artists, especially those already held in their collection. In 1988, the group purchased a former gasworks and commissioned architects

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and

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, to design a building for the gallery in a similar style to the gas works. The building began in 1991, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Henry Moore Foundation and donations from the public. It included a rotunda at the centre of the gallery, looking over Porthmeor Beach and was completed in 1993. The gallery opened in June 1993, the second of the Tate's regional galleries after Tate Liverpool, receiving more than 120,000 visitors before the end of the year. In 1999, to celebrate the

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(as St Ives was predicted to be the first British town to witness the event), Tate St Ives held an exhibition called ''As Dark as Light'', exhibiting work from

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, Gia Edzveradze and Yuko Shiraishi alongside art from local schoolchildren. 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 in order to accommodate tourists throughout the year. The contract was awarded to BAM Construct UK, who would be adding a extension, with the original architect's involvement. The Tate St Ives was closed in October 2015 for these works and remained closed until October 2017. In July 2018, Tate St. Ives won the Art Fund

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Prize, beating the other shortlisted museums (the

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, the

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and the

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) to the £100,000 prize. Later that month, the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that the new Tate building had reached the shortlist for the 2018 Stirling Prize. It was beaten by the Bloomberg Building in London, by

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Exhibitions

Notable exhibitions prior to the refurbishment include: *

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, 8 October 2005 – 15 January 2006 *''The Dark Monarch - Magic and Modernity in British Art,'' 10 October 2009 -10 January 2010 *''The Indiscipline of Painting,'' 8 October 2011 – 3 January 2012 touring to Warwick Art Centre (2011/12) Since the refurbishment, Tate St Ives has showcased the following exhibitions: *

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''All That Heaven Allows,'' 14 October 2017 – 7 January 2018 * ''

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: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings,'' 10 February – 29 April 2018 *

Patrick Heron Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced b ...

, 19 May – 30 September 2018 (In association with

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) *

Rosalind Nashashibi Layla Rosalind Nashashibi (born 1973) is a Palestinian-English artist based in London. Nashashibi works mainly with 16 mm film but also makes paintings and prints. Her work often deals with everyday observations merged with mythological elemen ...

and

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, ''Thinking through other artists'' 20 October 2018 – 6 January 2019 *''

Amie Siegel Amie Siegel (born 1974) is an American artist. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Siegel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Bard College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions *''Provenance'' – ...

: Provenance,'' 20 October 2018 – 6 May 2019 *

Anna Boghiguian Anna Boghiguian (Cairo, 1946) is one of Egypt's foremost contemporary artists. Of Armenian origin, she has constantly moved between different cities across the globe, from Egypt to Canada and India to France. She studied political science at the Am ...

, 19 January – 6 May 2019 *

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, 24 May 2019 – 1 September 2019 *

Otobong Nkanga Otobong Nkanga (born 1974) is a Nigerian-born visual artist and performance artist, based in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2015 she won the Yanghyun Prize. In her work she explores the social and topographical changes of her environment, observes their i ...

12 October 2019 - 5 January 2020 * Naum Gabo 25 January - 3 May 2020 *''

Haegue Yang Haegue Yang (, Hanja: 梁慧圭; born December 12, 1971) is a South Korean artist primarily working in sculpture and installation. After receiving her B.F.A from Seoul National University in 1994, Yang received an M.A. from Städelschule where s ...

: Strange Attractors'', 24 October 2020 - 3 May 2021, later extended until 26 September 2021 due to the

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. *

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, 16 October 2021 - 16 January 2022.

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