Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at Tate St Ives

Hales is delighted to announce the opening of a major retrospective of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK, one of the most innovative figures in British modernism and a key member of St Ives’s artistic community.

 

Bringing together over 170 paintings, drawings and rarely seen archival materials, this is the largest and most comprehensive survey of her work ever presented. Spanning eight decades, the exhibition traces her evolving approach to landscape, sensation and abstraction, from early landscapes to the bold colour and sweeping gestures of her later work.

 

Highlights include the largest-ever museum presentation of her glacier works, inspired by a visit to Switzerland in 1949, and the vibrant Scorpio paintings of her final decades, charged with colour, energy and movement.

 

Click here for the Tate St Ives website.

October 26, 2026