June 23rd Tate St. Ives (Opening)
     

On this day in 1993, the Tate St. Ives opened its doors to the public for the first time. The gallery, the second Tate gallery outside London, is situated on the site of the old gasworks and specialises in work by modern artists with St. Ives links. 

The inspiration for this gallery arose from the assumption by The Tate of the management of the Barbara Hepworth (May 20th) Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980,  and from the recognition that the Tate held many Cornish modern works in storage.
Funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Henry Moore Foundation and public donations, the gallery is centred on a large windowed rotunda overlooking Porthmeor Beach.

The gallery has since been extended and since 1993 has held exhibitions promoting the work of Rebecca Warren, Virginia Woolf (March 28th), Patrick Heron (March 20th), Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer and Otobong Nkanga as well as having a continual exhibition of its St. Ives related works.


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