Tate St Ives | Patrick Heron
PATRICK HERON
19 MAY - 30 SEPTEMBER 2018
TATE ST IVES | ST IVES, UK
Patrick Heron, Interior with Garden Window : 1955. 1955.
Private collection © Estate of Patrick Heron. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018
This retrospective exhibition—the first major show of the artist's work in 20 years—celebrates Patrick Heron (1920 - 1999), one of the most significant and innovative figures in the development of post-war abstract art in Britain.
Spanning over 50 years of work from 1943 to 1996, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to experience the scope and ambitious scale of Heron's painting as well as his consistent attachment to the subject of color.
Staged in the new top-lit gallery at Tate St Ives, Patrick Heron provides a succession of spaces and juxtapositions across the full breadth of Heron's career, encouraging a new understanding of his achievement as an artist and the creative processes he followed.