Belgrave St Ives is a commercial art gallery,[1] specialising in modern British and contemporary art in St Ives, Cornwall, southwest England.[2] It gives emphasis to work produced in Cornwall from the 1930s onwards, when the town of St Ives became an internationally important modernist artistic centre.[3][4][5][6]

A montage representing the new location and exhibition spaces of Belgrave St Ives

History

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The original gallery opened in 1974 in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, London. It moved to various London locations, including Mayfair, St James's, and Belsize Park[7] until a St Ives sister gallery opened in 1998. In 2010 the St Ives gallery became independent and continues as the sole remaining part of the Belgrave Gallery enterprise.[8] It maintains a programme of exhibitions of work by major artists associated with the St Ives Modern Period,[9] such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham[10] and Terry Frost,[11] as well as representing those formerly overshadowed in conventional accounts of Modern British art recently gaining greater prominence such as Sven Berlin.[12] Works by other Modern British and contemporary artists are also shown.[13][14] An annual fixture is the St Ives Exhibition, usually in the early summer, which focuses on Modernist art[15] produced by those associated with the town. In September 2020, after 22 years in St Ives, Belgrave St Ives relocated to a rural location in Towednack, just a couple of miles from St Ives.[16][17][18]

Publications

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The gallery has published books on the artists Terry Frost,[19] John Milne[20] and Patrick Hayman,[21] as well as to accompany exhibitions of work from Sven Berlin,[22] Terry Frost,[23] and artists at the Camberwell College of Arts.[24]

Notable exhibitions

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Motcomb Street, Belgravia

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  • 15 March – 16 April 1978 Jewish Artists of Great Britain 1845–1945

Masons Yard, St James's

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  • 21 February – 29 March 1985 British Post-Impressionists and Moderns
  • 10 May – 3 June 1988 Camberwell Artists of the ‘40s and ‘50s
  • 12 October – 3 November 1989 Terry Frost
  • 23 November – 15 December 1989 Sven Berlin- Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
  • 15 March – 6 April 1990 Some of the Moderns
  • 14 June – 13 July 1990 Jack Pender
  • 17 October – 9 November 1990 Michael Canney- Paintings, Constructions and Reliefs
  • 11–21 December 1990 Jacob Kramer 1892–1962
  • 6–28 March 1991 Willi Soukop RA
  • 5–27 March 1992 British Abstract Art of the ‘50s and ‘60s
  • 17 June – 10 July 1992 Stephen Gilbert- Sculpture of the ‘60s and Works on Paper

England's Lane, Belsize Park

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  • 15 March – 5 April 2001 Conroy Maddox- A Surrealist Odyssey

St Ives

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  • 7–30 November 2015 40 Years of Painting- Camberwell Students and Teachers 1945–1985
  • 10 September – 3 October 2016 Wilhelmina Barns-Graham- St Andrews and St Ives
  • 19 June – 15 July 2017 Terry Frost- A Book of Ideas

Artists

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Modern British and St Ives Contemporary
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Virginia Bounds
Anthony Benjamin Bob Bourne
Sven Berlin John Emanuel
Sandra Blow Anthony Frost
Michael Canney[26][27] Luke Frost
Tom Cross Ffiona Lewis
Bob Crossley Jason Lilley
Terry Frost Padraig Macmiadhachain
Patrick Hayman Felicity Mara[28]
Patrick Heron Christopher Marvell[29][30]
Roger Hilton Alice Mumford
Peter Lanyon Brian Rice
Ben Nicholson
Kate Nicholson
Victor Pasmore
William Scott
Michael Snow
Alfred Wallace
John Wells
Bryan Wynter

References

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  1. ^ "Belgrave St Ives | St Ives Cornwall". St Ives Cornwall. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  2. ^ Blackborow, Richard (23 April 2017). "Padraig Mac Miadhachain obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  3. ^ "St Ives School – Art Term | Tate". Tate Etc. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  4. ^ "The Gallery – Belgrave St Ives". Belgravestives.co.uk.
  5. ^ Bird, Michael (2016). The St Ives Artists- A Biography of Place and Time. Lund Humphries. ISBN 9781848221857.
  6. ^ "The shape of things to come | IOL Travel". Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  7. ^ isbn:0853319669 – Google Search. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Exhibitions – Belgrave St Ives". Belgravestives.co.uk.
  9. ^ "36 Hours in... St Ives". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  10. ^ Gooding, Mel (2005). Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Movement and Light Imag(in)ing Time. Tate Publishing. ISBN 1854375911.
  11. ^ Bristow, Robert (2013). Terry Frost: A Painter's Life. Sansom and Co. ISBN 9781906593780.
  12. ^ "The Dark Monarch: Magic and modernity in British art – Exhibition at Tate St Ives". Tate Etc. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  13. ^ isbn:1908326670 – Google Search. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  14. ^ "Barbara Hepworth's St Ives: A tour of the inspirational town as a Tate". The Independent. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  15. ^ Albert Hill; Matt Gibbered (19 June 2017). Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0714874166. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  16. ^ Byng, Malaika (8 July 2009). "St Ives: Seaside with a light touch". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  17. ^ Baron, Wendy; Collins, Ian; Varley, William (2013). The Art of Jeremy Gardiner: Unfolding Landscape. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9781848221017.
  18. ^ Bird, Michael (2008). The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time. Lund Humphries. ISBN 9780853319566. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  19. ^ Gooding, Mel (2000). Terry Frost: Act and Image- Works on Paper through Six Decades. The Belgrave Gallery. ISBN 0906647053.
  20. ^ Davies, Peter (2000). The Sculpture of John Milne. The Belgrave Gallery. ISBN 0906647045.
  21. ^ Gooding, Mel (2005). Patrick Hayman: Visionary Artist. The Belgrave Gallery. ISBN 0906647088.
  22. ^ Sven Berlin- Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. The Belgrave Gallery. 1989. ISBN 0906647037.
  23. ^ Terry Frost- A Book of Ideas. The Belgrave Gallery. ISBN 9780956890689.
  24. ^ 40 Years of Painting: Camberwell Students and Teachers 1945-1985. The Belgrave Gallery. ISBN 9780956890696.
  25. ^ "Artists – Belgrave St Ives". Belgravestives.co.uk.
  26. ^ "Exhibitions. List of Michael Canney's solo and group shows". Michaelcanney.co.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  27. ^ "Casole d'Elsa – Michael Canney – St Ives Exhibition 2017 – Belgrave St Ives". Belgrave St Ives. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  28. ^ "Exhibitions". Felicity Mara. 4 August 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  29. ^ "Christopher Marvell". Medicigallery.co.uk.
  30. ^ [1] [dead link]
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