Qualla: Tate St Ives https://qualla.com/tate-st-ives en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tate St Ives https://qualla.com/tate-st-ives Tate St Ives: Introduction https://qualla.com/tate-st-ives/ The architects told the planners that they wanted the new building to look like the gasworks it would replace. Eldred Evans and David Shalev had won the commission for Tate St Ives in 1988 on the strength of a curved white concrete drum, set into the cliff above Porthmeor beach, whose silhouette echoed the round gas-holder that had stood on the site since the Victorians. When the gallery opened in June 1993, 120,000 people walked through it before the end of the year. The point was never the building. The point was that for seventy years the St Ives painters — Hepworth, Nicholson, Heron, Lanyon, Wynter, Gabo — had sent their work to London. Now the work could come home to the beach where it had been made.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/j/tate-st-ives-wp/gbuj-tate-st-ives-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tate St Ives: Gasworks to gallery https://qualla.com/tate-st-ives/ In 1988 the trustees of the Tate Gallery bought a derelict gasworks on Porthmeor beach and commissioned Eldred Evans and David Shalev — a London-based practice with serious civic credentials — to build a regional Tate on the site. Funding came from the European Regional Developme...

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