Tate St Ives

Inspiring art and breath-taking scenery

Inspiring art and breath-taking scenery meet at Tate St Ives. The iconic gallery overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, and showcases some of the best-loved British artworks of the twentieth century alongside an ever-changing programme of exhibitions embracing the best of International modern and contemporary art.

Discover how a small fishing town became an art capital of the world

Discover how a small fishing town became an art capital of the world, and how St Ives became famous as a centre of abstract art after the second world war. Encounter iconic art works by celebrated figures including Barbara Hepworth, Marlow Moss, Peter Lanyon, Sandra Blow and Patrick Heron. The displays reveal the relationships between artists associated with St Ives and wider events in art history, also featuring work from the Tate Collection by Pablo Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Moore and Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan OBE.

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Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden

Located less than 5 minutes’ walk from Tate St Ives, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden is based in Trewyn Studio where Hepworth lived and worked from 1949 to her death in 1975. ‘Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic’, she wrote. ‘Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space’.

Please note we are closed for essential maintenance 30 October – 26 Dec 2023.