Wilhelmina Barns-Graham & Jonathan Michael Ray

TATE ST IVES
St Ives, UK
28.05.22 - 02.10.22

Jonathan Michael Ray Artist Cornwall sculpture tate st ives — *Glacier Crystal, Grindelwald*, 1953 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and *Golden Vortex*, 2022 by Jonathan Michael Ray

This exhibition brings together two artists who share an interest in the geological and built environments of West Cornwall and beyond. Expressing the idea that there is more to experience in a place than can be found on the surface, their works excavate landscape through social histories, environmental phenomena, and natural and man-made forms.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (1912–2004) was based in St Ives for much of her life. She developed a style of simplified lines and planes of transparent colour to capture experiences of place. The exhibition features paintings from across her career, many referencing the topology and natural phenomena of the Cornish coastal landscape.

Jonathan Michael Ray (born 1984) works with sculpture, photography and printmaking, incorporating found objects, stained glass and stone. His work considers landscape through its historical, geological and spiritual forms. He shares with Barns-Graham an interest in strata and fractures, studied through descriptive line, transparency and overlaid forms.

-Text taken from the TATE ST IVES’ introduction of the exhibition.

Images of exhibition by Oliver Udy.