International Exchanges: Modern Art And St Ives 1915–1965

International Exchanges: Modern Art and St Ives 1915–1965 explores the wider national and international contexts which shaped art in St Ives in the 1940s, 1950s and 60s.

The exhibition will show how the art of post-war St Ives drew upon two trajectories of modern art: one the utopian ideals of constructivism from Moscow in the 1910s through Berlin and Paris between the wars; and the other a tradition of craft and the handmade that unites the carvings of Brancusi and the ceramics of Bernard Leach and others. Major works by Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and others will also been seen alongside that of their contemporaries from elsewhere in Europe, North America and beyond to position their art within wider formal, technical and philosophical debates.