September Festival Events
Monday 14th September
Marianne de Trey CBE: Potter of Consummate Skill
Illustrated talk by freelance curator, researcher, writer and teacher Kathy Niblett charting the enormous contribution Marianne de Trey made to ceramics for more than six decades, including helping to found The Devon Guild of Craftsmen and promoting the Craftsmen Potters Association of Great Britain.
Supported by The Devon Guild of Craftsmen and the Leach Pottery
Tuesday 15th September
Anyone for Zennor? Experiments in Art and Life on the Penwith Moors
What attracted so many progressive artists and writers from cities to the wild moors west of St Ives? In this illustrated talk, local author Michael Bird looks at the work and lifestyle of some of the area’s famous incomers, including the poet W S Graham and artists Patrick Heron and Bryan Wynter.
In aid of the Smart Regeneration Project to restore the Porthmeor Studios
Wednesday 16th September
Lucie Rie and St Ives
Lucie Rie (1902-1995) was one of the leading potters of the 20th century. Emmanuel Cooper, potter, writer and editor of Ceramic Review and curator of the current Lucie Rie exhibition at Tate St Ives, will be discussing her pots in relation to Bernard Leach’s ideas, and will focus on her independent vision as an urban potter within the modern movement.
Supported by Tate St Ives
Thursday 17th September
Two Films on Barbara Hepworth
Sara Hughes, who has curated the current Barbara Hepworth exhibition at Tate St Ives, introduces two archival films about the sculptor: ‘Figures in a Landscape’ made by Dudley Shaw Ashton in 1953, and Hepworth’s Tate retrospective, filmed under the auspices of the Arts Council and directed by Bruce Beresford in 1968.
Supported by Tate St Ives
Friday 18th September
Marianne and Adrian Stokes
To accompany the exhibition ‘Utmost Fidelity’ opening at Penlee House Gallery & Museum and the Royal Cornwall Museum, their great great niece and curator of the touring exhibitions Magdalen Evans will give an illustrated talk about the life and work of this fascinating couple who lived, worked and exhibited in Cornwall between 1886 and 1899. Their long careers took them to many artists’ colonies and European locations.
Supported by Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Monday 21st September
Painting the Warmth of the Sun
To celebrate the life and work of artist and writer Tom Cross, who was Principal of Falmouth College of Art between 1976 and1987, and who died earlier this year, a one-hour version of his groundbreaking film made in 1985 and produced by Kevin Crooks for TSW will be screened.
Supported by South West Film and Television Archive
Tuesday 22nd September
The Recordings of Tom Cross and Dr Roger Slack
The ‘Memory Bay’ oral history project is preserving and bringing up to date the rich oral testimony gathered over the past forty years by both Tom Cross, who died earlier this year, and Dr Roger Slack, who died in 2007. John Pollard and Janet Axten talk about the lives and work of these two influential men and introduce extracts from some of their recordings.
In aid of St Ives Trust Archive Study Centre
Wednesday 23rd September
Alfred Wallis
To accompany the exhibition at Tate St Ives of the primitive St Ives artist who died in 1942, Susan Lamb, Head of Learning at Tate St Ives, will introduce the Arts Council film made about Wallis in 1973. Produced by Mason Bruce Associates this film shows an extensive collection of the artist’s work.
Supported by Tate St Ives
Thursday 24th September
A Place of In-Scape - Margo Maeckelberghe and Shuli Nachshon
Art video premier by the multimedia Israeli artist Shuli Nachshon about the impact of a significant place in the art of the painter Margo Maeckelberghe, that includes interviews in which the artists discuss each other’s work. This is a collaborative initiative between Nedira Yakir, art historian and lecturer at University College Falmouth, and Shuli Nachson, with music by Steffan Helstrad.
Supported by the British Council in Israel and the generous contribution of Margo Maeckelberghe, Martin Clark, the Fine Art department of UCF and others
Friday 25th September
Margaret Mellis: A Life
To commemorate the life and work of the artist Margaret Mellis who died earlier this year at the age of 95, there will be a screening of the Anglia TV film ‘Margaret Mellis: A Life’ made in 1993 and produced by John Swinfield. Mellis was a pivotal figure in modernist British art, and with her husband, the writer Adrian Stokes, she led the migration to St Ives of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo in 1939.
Supported by Tate St Ives
All events start at 1.00 and end at 2.15
Tickets £5.00 available from the Tourist Information Centre, The Guildhall, Street an Pol, St Ives TR26 2DS. Tel: 01736 798577 and on the door if available
Also at: www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk