Galleries - December 2011

MAP 11 ENGLAND ST IVES a MILLENNIUM Street-An-Pol, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 2DS (opp Tourist Information) Enviable reputation for showing the best in contemporary art. Nationally renowned for showcasing established and emergent artists in a diverse exhibition programme. Three floors of exhibition space. Mixed Winter Exhibition. From Dec 2. www.millenniumgallery.co.uk Mon–Sat 10–5, Sun 11–4 t 01736 793121 b PENWITH GALLERIES Back Road West, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1NL Founded 1949, Gallery exhibits the work of Leading Contemporary Artists. Exhibition –Paintings, Sculpture and Ceramics. Gallery Shop. Curator Kathleen Watkins. Tue–Sat 10–1, 2.30–5 t 01736 795579 c PORTHMINSTER GALLERY 3 Fernlea Terrace, St Ives, TR26 2BH ‘Cornwall: Summer into Autumn’. Until Jan 9. Exhibition of contemporary coastal paintings inspired by the ever-changing moods of West Cornwall by Louise Balaam RWA, Chris Hankey, Freya Horsley and Vincent Wilson. Featuring sea-inspired forged steel sculptures by Guy Thomas ARBS. ‘Of Earth and Fire’. Until Jan 9. Exhibition of museum-quality, collectable ceramics by three highly distinctive and internationally acclaimed names: Tim Andrews, Carina Ciscato and Regina Heinz. Featuring new pit-fired ceramic sculptures by Mary Kaun-English. Signed investment works by Sandra Blow RA, 28. GALLERIES DECEMBER 11 A Y R L A N E B A R N O O N H I L L C H . P L . P L M K T W H A R F B A C K R D W E S T B A C K R D E A S T P O R T H M E O R R D F I S H S T B E D F O R D R D H I G H S T T H E T E R R A C E S T R E E T - A N - P O L F O R E S T R E E T P O R T M E O R H I L L B E A C H R O A D T H E S T E N N A C K P O R T H M E O R B E A C H a e g d f c b h Terry Frost RA and other St Ives/Modern British Artists. *own art Mon, Thur–Sat 10–5, closed Tue/Wed, Sun, or by appt info@porthminstergallery.co.uk www.porthminstergallery.co.uk t 01736 793978 d ST IVES SOCIETY OF ARTISTS Norway Square, St Ives TR26 1NA Open March-January. Exhibitions in The Mariners Gallery include Spring, Summer and Autumn Members’ Shows, Two Open Shows and other guest shows. The Crypt Gallery is host to many guest exhibitors and is available to hire at certain times. Website: www.stisa.co.uk t 01736 795582 e TATE ST IVES Porthmeor Beach, TR26 1TG The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now. Until Jan 3. Admn £6.25, £3.75 concs, Tate Members, 0-18 free visiting.stives@tate.org.uk www.tate.org.uk/stives Mar-Oct open every day 10–5.20, last admn 5 Nov-Feb Tue–Sun 10–4.20, last admn 4 t 01736 796226 f TREMAYNE APPLIED ARTS Street-An-Pol, St Ives, TR26 2DS A regularly changing display of Twentieth Century Design Classics of Furniture, Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery, Paintings and Prints, together with Contemporary Works. Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri 10.30–4.30, Sat 9.30–1.30 t 01736 797779 f 01736 793222 g WESTCOTT’S GALLERY Westcott’s Quay, St Ives Painting, Prints, Ceramics, Sculpture and Glass from the St Ives Post War period. Blow, Bell, Barns Graham, Conn, Feiler, Frost, Gilcrest, Harris, Hepworth, Heron, Lanyon, Long, Mackenzie, Mitchell, Milne, Mount, B. Nicholson, O’Casey, O’Malley, Pearce, Pender, Tilson, Wells, Yates. westcotts.gallery@btconnect.com Daily 12–4 t 01736 756006/797371/798704 or 795888 h THE WILLS LANE GALLERY Wills Lane, St Ives TR26 1AF Mixed and changing exhibition of Paintings, ceramics, jewellery, glass, original prints, metalwork by gallery artists including Maggi Hambling, Stephen Chambers, Louise McClary, Richard Cook, Michael Porter, Clementina Van der Walt, Emmanuel Cooper, Sutton Taylor, Anthony Bryant, Nicola Bealing and more. info@willslanegallery.co.uk www.willslanegallery.co.uk Wed/Sat 10.30–5.30, Sun 11–4 or by appt During Dec tel for opening times t 01736 795723 Francois Morellet ‘Négatif no.9’ This is the nicest of pairings, the recent work of veteran French proto-Minimalist Francois Morellet alongside that mysterious titan of early Modernism, the Suprematist Kasimir Malevich. Morellet’s earliest post-war work was strongly affected by a passion for series and systems that led to a point where these rules broke down and turned back on themselves. Malevich, you sense, always understood these mysteries, seeing the future embedded within eternal forms. Morellet’s latest, new Sous- Prematisme pieces have come full circle, being, as Ian Hunt points out, “haunted by the transcendental aspects of Malevich . . .” ( Annely Juda ) NU THUMB nails