Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden

Barbara Hepworth Conversation with Magic Stones 1973 in the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden. Photo by flickr user HerryLawford on Wikimedia Commons, licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.	Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture garden. Photo by flickr user DaveBleasdale on Wikimedia Commons, licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Barbara Hepworth, Sphere with Inner Form,1963, with Two Forms Divided Circle, 1969, in the background. © Copyright Rowena Ford and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.	Barbara Hepworth, Six Forms (2x3),1968, Photo by flickr user Pot Noodle on Wikimedia Commons, licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Barbara Hepworth’s studio in her garden. Photo by flickr user Sidelong on Wikimedia Commons, licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.	Barbara Hepworth’s studio in her house. Photo by flickr user HerryLawford on Wikimedia Commons, licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Barnoon Hill, St Ives, Cornwall.

Visiting the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden is a unique experience that offers a remarkable insight into the work and outlook of one of Britain’s most important twentieth century artists. Sculptures in bronze, stone and wood are on display in the museum and garden, along with paintings, drawings and archive material.

Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975. Following her wish to establish her home and studio as a museum of her work, Trewyn Studio and much of the artist’s work remaining there was given to the nation and placed in the care of the Tate Gallery in 1980.

‘Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic’, wrote Barbara Hepworth. ‘Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space.’ The garden itself was laid out by Barbara Hepworth with help from a friend, the composer Priaulx Rainier.

Tate film with Hepworth talking about her work:

‘Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic’, wrote Barbara Hepworth. ‘Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space.’

Opening times:

Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden: Tuesday to Sunday 10am-4:20pm, last admission 4pm. Closed Mondays.

Tate St Ives: Tuesday to Sunday 10am-5:20pm, last admission 5pm. Closed Mondays.

Admission:

Combined Tate St Ives/Barbara Hepworth, adult £11, concessions £6.60.

Tate St Ives, adult £7.70, concessions £4.95.

Barbara Hepworth Museum, adult £6.60, concessions £4.40.

Under 18’s free.

Public transport:

St Ives has a railway station with services to Plymouth, Reading and London Paddington, coach services to Heathrow Airport and Victoria Coach Station, and a local bus service.

Address: Barnoon Hill, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1AD

For further information check the museum website:

www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum

Following her wish to establish her home and studio as a museum of her work, Trewyn Studio and much of the artist’s work remaining there was given to the nation and placed in the care of the Tate Gallery in 1980.