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2/2/2007

Two exhibitions

Tate St Ives, St Ives (Cornwall)

Art Now Cornwall

An exciting opportunity to see a wide range of work by twenty-eight artists living and working in Cornwall, focusing particularly on Penwith, this unmissable exhibition will cause much debate about contemporary practice. A curatorial selection by Tate St Ives Director Susan Daniel-McElroy and Curator Sara Hughes, rather than a survey of artists’ practice, Art Now Cornwall will help promote discussion and awareness of emerging artistic trends.

Not unexpectedly, the legacy of late English Modernism is evident in a number of artists’ practice through either a constructionist or a gestural approach. However, the projection of internal mental life onto nature and the development of complex visual fictions and references are relatively recent phenomena in Cornwall. Within the exhibition the influence of the Cornish light and landscape is surprisingly uncommon. Instead, there are autobiographical, gothic and whimsical concerns expressed in a variety of media from painting, drawing, lithography, sculpture and performance to film and video. These subjects reveal the contemporary concerns of artists in our locale and it is interesting to contemplate how these relate to a wider sense of contemporary art practice, and it is hoped to be the first in a new series of exhibitions celebrating the distinctiveness of the visual arts in the county.

Artists taking part: Harriet Bell, Neil Canning, Richard Cook, Jessica Cooper, Andy Currie, Naomi Frears, Anthony Frost, Luke Frost, Delpha Hudson, Andy Hughes, Sax Impey, Matthew Lanyon, Jonty Lees, Amanda Lorens, Philip Medley, Richard Nott, Hadrian Pigott, Michael Porter, Ged Quinn, Iain Robertson, Jesse Leroy Smith, Mark Surridge, Clare Wardman, Cathy Watkins, Andy Whall, Lucy Willow, Lisa Wright, Partou Zia.

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St Ives All Round: The Paintings of Bryan Pearce 1958-2001

An extraordinary exhibition of paintings by the popular St Ives artist Bryan Pearce (b1929), whose particular experiences of his hometown are captured with a unique clarity of vision. Pearce's artistic developments are unique, his simple renditions of space, colour and light evolving from a sophisticated understanding of composition. Acknowledging a career which spans over fifty years, the exhibition draws together works from private and public collections to evoke a serene sense of place, which seems at once personal yet archetypal.

Pearce was born in St Ives, Cornwall, a sufferer of the then unknown condition Phenylketonuria, which affects the normal development of the brain. Encouraged by his mother, who was herself a painter, and then by other St Ives artists, he began drawing and painting in watercolours in 1953. From 1953 to 1957 he attended St Ives School of Painting under the Director Leonard Fuller. In 1957 Pearce began painting in oils and started to exhibit regularly at the Penwith Gallery in St Ives.

His regular walks around St Ives, where he has lived all his life, have been the inspiration for his subject matter, unconsciously recording the town's subtle changes. He has always worked slowly, but consistently, producing perhaps twelve oil paintings a year. Often compared to Alfred Wallis, the late Peter Lanyon has said of him: "Because his sources are not seen with a passive eye, but are truly happenings, his painting is original."

Now one of the country's foremost living naive painters, Pearce is well know for portraying the local St Ives landscape and still-life compositions in oil, conte, pen and ink, and pencil.

Opening: 3 february 2007

Tate St Ives
Porthmeor Beach - St.Ives
Admission Free with gallery admission
Opening hours: March – October: Daily 10.00-17.20, last admission 17.00; November – February: Tuesday – Sunday 10.00-16.20, last admission 16.00

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