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Cornwall County Council and Tate announced today that
Jamie Fobert Architects have been selected for the Phase Two Development
of Tate St Ives.
Jamie Fobert is a Canadian who studied in Montreal before
coming to London in 1987 where he worked for David Chipperfield for nine
years. He set up his own practice in 1996. Their work on Anderson House,
London, won the RIBA 2003 Award for Building in a Historic Context and
the Manser Medal for best one-off house in 2004. The practice recently
won its first major public competition with designs for the refurbishment
and extension of the Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge. Other projects
include the design of The American Sublime exhibition at Tate Britain
in 2001, the installation for The Upright Figure display at Tate Modern
in 2002, designs for Aveda stores, and a house for the photographer Nadav
Kandar in North London. Tate St Ives Phase Two Development will feature
a new building on part of the Barnoon Car Park above the existing gallery.
It will provide additional flexible space for temporary exhibitions, an
education space, reception, offices and storage. The new and existing
buildings will be linked to allow visitors to move from one to the other.
The new development will provide a dedicated Learning
Centre at the gallery for the first time to serve local schoolchildren
and provide a regional centre for excellence in visual arts education.
It will also enable the gallery to organise exhibitions all year round
without the need to close for up to 7 weeks per year for reinstallation.
Over 2 million people have visited Tate St Ives since
it opened in 1993.
After more than ten years of successful operation, the
building needs modification to meet visitors' needs which, at peak
times, are currently running at more than three times original estimates.
The aim of the project is also to build the out of season numbers to boost
St Ives as a year round destination.
The selection of the architect followed an open invitation
in August which attracted interested from over 50 architectural practices.
Managed by the RIBA, the process involved interviews with a shortlist
of 7 architects, who made presentations to a panel of judges which included
Sir Nicholas Serota and Peter Wilson from Tate, the director of Tate St
Ives Susan Daniel-McElroy, RIBA architectural adviser Sir Jeremy Dixon
and representatives from Cornwall County Council and Penwith District
Council.
The project is being delivered through a partnership between
Cornwall County Council, Penwith District Council and Tate.
For further information please contact Nadine Thompson
Tel: 020 7887 4939 or Erica Bolton Tel: 020 7221 5000.
Editors notes:
Press Enquiries:
Nadine Thompson Tel: 020 7887 4939, Erica Bolton Tel: 020 7221 5000
or Arwen Fitch Tel: 01736 791121.
The Tate St Ives Phase Two project aims to:
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Build new audiences for the Gallery and the work
of local artists. |
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Develop the educational benefits for the visiting public and
local community. |
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Enhance visitor experience and encourage visits through the
winter months, particularly from overseas. |
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Support Penwith's cultural life, including the Leach Pottery
project, through joint marketing. |
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Support young artists in Cornwall through the provision of
gallery space and a programming strand dedicated to their development. |
The new building will house the following:
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A large top-lit gallery space to house major works and accommodate
other large pieces from Tate's Collection, which will
be accessible to local audiences for the first time. The space
will be flexible with the potential for use for conferences,
performance and community-linked events. |
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A dedicated Learning Centre, which will enable the organisation
to extend its provision for Further Education Colleges, schools
and community groups and to develop partnership working with
the Combined Universities of Cornwall. It will facilitate the
delivery of artists' professional training programmes
and a range of workshops for the corporate sector to develop
creative intelligence. |
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An exhibition preparation and storage area, which will enable
the Gallery to remain open through exhibition change-over periods.
This will make it possible for an additional 3,000 visitors
a year to visit in this six week period when Tate St Ives is
usually closed. |
The modified existing building will contain:
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A relocated shop |
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An extended and refurbished Café bar |
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Improved member and cloakroom facilities |
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An artist-run exhibition gallery, which would take a radical
approach to nurturing new talent by providing an exhibition
space programmed by young, emerging artists |
Economic Impact
Benefits Research carried out in 1994 by South West Tourism indicated
that Tate Gallery St Ives contributed an additional £16 million
to the Cornish economy. Current estimates, ten years later, are
that the figure exceeds £20 million a year. The project demonstrated
the ability of investment in the arts to give a real payback in
terms of economic development.
Tourism
Tourism to Cornwall is at an all time high. The total number of
visits to Cornwall grew by 47% between 1991 – 2001 (from 3.4
million to 5 million). Tate St Ives has, along with attractions
such as the Eden Project, significantly extended the tourist season
in Cornwall. Hotel figures for St Ives demonstrate unprecedented
demand throughout the year.
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| Clare Morgan
Media Relations Manager
Objective One Partnership Office
Castle House
Pydar Street
Truro TR1 2UD
Mobile:
07973 813647
Telephone: 01872 223439
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