ST. IVES, UK.- Tate St. Ives presents Art Now Cornwall, on view through May 13, 2007. An exciting opportunity to see a wide range of work by twenty-eight artists living and working in Cornwall, focusing particularly on Penwith, this unmissable exhibition will cause much debate about contemporary practice. A curatorial selection by Tate St Ives Director Susan Daniel-McElroy and Curator Sara Hughes, rather than a survey of artists’ practice, Art Now Cornwall will help promote discussion and awareness of emerging artistic trends.

Not unexpectedly, the legacy of late English Modernism is evident in a number of artists’ practice through either a constructionist or a gestural approach. However, the projection of internal mental life onto nature and the development of complex visual fictions and references are relatively recent phenomena in Cornwall. Within the exhibition the influence of the Cornish light and landscape is surprisingly uncommon. Instead, there are autobiographical, gothic and whimsical concerns expressed in a variety of media from painting, drawing, lithography, sculpture and performance to film and video. These subjects reveal the contemporary concerns of artists in our locale and it is interesting to contemplate how these relate to a wider sense of contemporary art practice, and it is hoped to be the first in a new series of exhibitions celebrating the distinctiveness of the visual arts in the county.

Artists taking part: Harriet Bell, Neil Canning, Richard Cook, Jessica Cooper, Andy Currie, Naomi Frears, Anthony Frost, Luke Frost, Delpha Hudson, Andy Hughes, Sax Impey, Matthew Lanyon, Jonty Lees, Amanda Lorens, Philip Medley, Richard Nott, Hadrian Pigott, Michael Porter, Ged Quinn, Iain Robertson, Jesse Leroy Smith, Mark Surridge, Clare Wardman, Cathy Watkins, Andy Whall, Lucy Willow, Lisa Wright, Partou Zia.