Teaching Resources

Information Pack for Visiting Groups

Practical advice how to get here and how to make the most of your group visit (for schools, colleges, youth & community groups).

Information Pack (PDF format, 350KB)

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The pack includes:

  • Travel to St Ives and a town map
  • Introduction to art in St Ives
  • Tate St Ives - the building and the architects
  • Further reading and research
  • Preparation for your visit - suggested activities
  • Follow up work

Teachers Notes

Guides to the exhibitions at Tate St Ives designed to help you plan and focus your class visit. Although aimed at teachers and lecturers, the comprehensive notes are useful for any group leader.

The notes aim to provide:

  • information about the exhibiting artists on works in the exhibition
  • information on the works on display
  • suggestions of themes and issues to consider and discuss
  • Information on resources and further reading and research.

We recommend that teachers and group leaders make a preliminary visit before they bring their group.

Teachers' Resources Order Form (PDF format, 26KB)

Download Teachers Notes:

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Alfred Wallis, Summer 2009 (PDF format, 1.5MB)
Katy Moran, Summer 2009(PDF format, 142KB)
Summer Exhibitions 2009 (PDF format, 169KB)
Spring Exhibitions 2009, KS3 & KS4 Works in Focus (PDF format, 172KB)
Spring Exhibitions 2009, KS1 & KS2 Works in Focus (PDF format, 1.3 MB)
Spring Exhibitions 2009 (PDF format, 129KB)
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection, KS3 & KS4 Works in Focus (PDF format, 1.12MB)
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection, KS1 & KS2 Works in Focus (PDF format, 1.12MB)
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection, Winter 2008 (PDF format, 95KB)
Modernism in St Ives, Summer 2008 (PDF format, 358KB)
Adam Chodzko, Proxigean Tide, Summer 2008 (PDF format, 669KB)
Dawn of a Colony: Picturing the West, St Ives 1811-1888, Summer 2008 (PDF format, 278KB)
Summer Exhibitions 2008 - All Exhibitions (PDF format, 68KB)
Marge Maeckelberghe: Extended Landscape, Spring 2008 (PDF format, 141KB)
Rose Hilton, Spring 2008 (PDF format, 306KB
Hugh Stoneman, Spring 2008 (PDF format, 134KB)
Bernard Leach and his Circle, Spring 2008 (PDF format, 61KB)
Spring Exhibitons 2008 (PDF format, 78KB)
Winter Exhibitions 2007 - Kenneth Martin & Mary Martin, John Wells, Jonty Lees (PDF format, 190KB)
Summer Exhibitions 2007 - I Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition (PDF format, 190KB)
Spring Exhibitions 2007 - Bryan Pearce, Francis Bacon, Art Now Cornwall (PDF format, 144KB)
Summer Exhibitions 2006 - John Hoyland, Tony O'Malley (PDF format, 121KB)
Spring Exhibitions 2006 - Ellsworth Kelly, Turner in the South West, Keiko Mukiade, Bryan Wynter (PDF format, 204KB)
Autumn Exhibitions 2005 - Barbara Hepworth, Tacita Dean, Simon Carroll, Kirsten Kartscher, John Wood and Paul Harrison (PDF format, 218KB)
Summer Exhibitions 2005 - Pail Feiler, Richard Deacon, Peter Lanyon, Kasimir Malevich (PDF format, 131KB)
Spring Exhibitions 2005 - Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Denis Mitchell, Alfred Wallis, Callum Innes, Bernard Leach (PDF format, 200KB)
Winter Exhibitions 2004/2005 - Trevor Bell, Bernard Leach, St Ives School of Modernists, Toby Paterson, Jem Southam (PDF format, 547KB)
Summer Exhibitions 2004 - David Nash, Abstract Sculpture 1978-2004, Mariele Neudecker, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Mike Marshall (PDF format, 552KB)
Sandra Blow: Space & Matter (PDF format, 324KB)
Alan Davie, Richard Slee, Partou Zia (PDF format, 461KB)
Antony Gormley: Some of the Facts (PDF format, 262KB)
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Maritime Works (PDF format, 498KB)
Barbara Hepworth: Centenary (PDF format, 260KB)
Richard Long, Naum Gabo, Kosho Ito (PDF format, 366KB)
Painting Not Painting (featuring Terry Frost) (PDF format, 342KB)
Real Life: Film and Video Art (PDF format, 293KB)
Karl Weschke: Beneath a Black Sky (PDF format, 456KB)
Karl Weschke: Beneath a Black Sky - Appendix and Artist's Biographies (PDF format, 126KB)
Bryan Wynter: A Selected Retrospective (PDF format, 353KB)