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David Tovey has curated, or assisted with the curatorship, of a number of
exhibitions devoted to St Ives art.
1. Dawn of a Colony : Picturing the West (St Ives
1811-1888)
on show at Tate St Ives from 24th May to 21st September 2008
(curated with Sara Hughes of Tate St Ives)
Artists featured include J M W Turner RA, Edward Cooke RA, James Clarke Hook RA,
Henry Moore RA, John Brett ARA, J M Whistler, Walter Sickert, Mortimer Menpes,
Stanhope Forbes RA, Adrian Stokes RA, Marianne Stokes, the Swede Anders Zorn,
the Finn Helene Schjerfbeck and the Frenchman Émile-Louis Vernier, who has been
described as "the person who really discovered St Ives".
Click Picturing the West link for David's article
on the exhibition for the St Ives Times and Echo.
2. Dawn of a Colony : Lyrical Light (St Ives 1889-1914)
on show at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance from 14th June 2008 to 13th
September 2008
Artists featured include Sir John Arnesby Brown RA, Sir Alfred East RA, Adrian
Stokes RA, Julius Olsson RA, Algernon Talmage RA, William and Jessie Titcomb,
Marianne Stokes, Arthur Meade, John Noble Barlow, Moffat Lindner, Edmund Fuller,
Louis Grier, William Fortescue, William Eadie, John Bromley, Charles Mottram,
Alfred Hartley, the American Sydney Mortimer Laurence, and the Australians
Richard Hayley Lever and Sir William Ashton.
Click Lyrical Light link for David's article on the
exhibition for the St Ives Times and Echo.
3. Sea Change - Art in St Ives 1914-1930
on show at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance from 10th September 2010 to
20th November 2010
Artists featured included Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Charles Simpson, John
Park, Borlase Smart, Moffat Lindner, Arthur Meade, Fred Milner, Arthur Hayward,
George Bradshaw, the New Zealander Frances Hodgkins, the Australian Sydney Long,
the Canadian Donald Shaw MacLaughlin, the Belgians Emile Fabry and Louis
Reckelbus, and the Americans Paul Dougherty, Guy Carleton Wiggins and Henry
Bayley Snell. There were also pots by Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada and
Michael Cardew and paintings and textile designs by Alec Walker.
What Visitors said about Sea Change
Probably the most beautiful collection we have ever seen -
SM, Hastings
Absolutely breathtaking - RO, Houston, Texas
Wonderful, so different, but again an absolute delight - VT, Plymouth
Beautiful, spirit of the area - AG, Vancouver, Canada
I have not seen such beautiful paintings for a long time - MM, Amsterdam
Amazing skill in capturing effects of light - AM, Penzance
Inspiring beyond words - TW, Chichester
Fabulous - Stunning - Excellent - Wonderful - Awesome - JB, Lleyn
Peninsula
4. St Ives - The Cheltenham Connection
at Cheltenham Art Gallery from 20th May to 15th July 2006
This celebrated the exhibitions held by St Ives artists in Cheltenham in 1925
and 1936 and showcased some of Cheltenham Art Gallery's collection of work by
Cornish artists.
Artists featured included Adrian Stokes RA, Julius Olsson RA, Algernon Talmage
RA, Stanhope Forbes RA, Lamorna Birch RA, Dame Laura Knight RA, Bernard
Fleetwood-Walker RA, William Titcomb, Moffat Lindner, George Bradshaw, Richard
Heyworth and Bernard Leach.
5. Creating A Splash : The St Ives Society of Artists - The
First 25 Years (1927-1952)
which commenced at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance on 21st July 2003 and
toured the Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery,
Hereford City Museum and Art Gallery, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery and
Newport Museum and Art Gallery before finishing on 10th July 2004
Artists featured included the Royal Academicians Adrian Stokes, Sir John Arnesby
Brown, Julius Olsson, Algernon Talmage, Terrick Williams, Stanhope Forbes,
Lamorna Birch, Dame Laura Knight, Dod Procter, Sir Frank Brangwyn and Bernard
Fleetwood-Walker, with Borlase Smart, George Bradshaw, Moffat Lindner, John
Park, Arthur Hayward, Bernard Ninnes, Thomas Maidment, Leonard Richmond,
Leonard Fuller and the American Elmer Schofield, as well as the further women
artists Mary McCrossan, Dorothea Sharp, Helen Stuart Weir, Marcella Smith,
Pauline Hewitt, Eleanor Hughes, Helen Seddon, Shearer Armstrong, Annie Walke and
Marion Hocken, the Newlyn and Lamorna artists Charles Simpson, Harold Harvey,
Stanley Gardiner and Frank Gascoigne Heath, the etchers Sydney Lee RA, Alfred
Hartley, Job Nixon, Sir Claude Francis Barry, Geoffrey Garnier, William Westley
Manning and Raymond Ray-Jones and the modernists Ben Nicholson, Barbara
Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Sir Terry Frost.
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