Ro Robertson at Tate St Ives
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Ro Robertson: Modern Thresholds at Tate St Ives
December 2023
Modern Thresholds: Ro Robertson, a site-responsive display of drawing and sculpture by Ro Robertson, is now on view at Tate St Ives until December 2025.
Robertson’s installation, Interlude, responds to the tidal zone of Porthmeor Beach and the changing shoreline between the headlands of The Island and Carrick Du, directly opposite Tate St Ives. Robertson has approached the landscape through the lens of LGBTQIA+ experience, commenting, ‘We are part of a diverse natural world in constant flux where boundaries aren’t binary and rigid but rather flow in constant harmony.'
Ro Robertson’s new installation combines drawings developed on Porthmeor Beach and at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives with sculptures created at the artist’s studio in nearby Lelant, Cornwall. Titled after the musical term for a passage bridging two instrumental sections, Interlude addresses ideas of existing ‘in-between’, exploring meeting points between mind and body, body and land, land and sea, or rigid steel and fluid paint. Robertson’s Interlude is presented alongside paintings by artists who worked in Cornwall in the twentieth century, including Gillian Ayres, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Patrick Heron, and Peter Lanyon.
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