It’s Kim’s daddy’s birthday today, but we started off the celebrations yesterday with a picnic on the beach and a visit to Tate St Ives.
It seemed an unusual exhibition to me, a bit different from the stuff we normally see there. For one thing they’d painted the walls brown and tinted the vast windows, all very Victorian and I guess in keeping with the show’s theme of magic. Not sure the exhibition met with the grandiose description on the blurb though. One thing I did enjoy was the large number of drawings and prints displayed, and seeing work by Graham Sutherland – I haven’t seen much of his work for years. It was interesting to meander through an exhibition that presented work in such a wide range of media from installation and film through to more traditional sculpture and painting, which doesn’t seem to happen there very often (such a small gallery I suppose). I came away wanting to go and do some more drawing (immediately), which is always a good thing!, and Kim was fascinated with Damien Hirst’s Unicorn, he couldn’t work out whether the whole thing was real or if it was just “a pony with an antler stuck on” and whether he’d actually had to kill it himself to put it in the formaldehyde! (I hope not?!) Undoubtedly the stuff of childhood dreams, and not something I’ve ever seen on my birthday (or even the day before it!).
I’ll leave you with a picture of father and son on Porthmeor beach outside the gallery – just the place for a cuppa and a slice of chocolate cake! I’m off to bake another birthday cake now, so see you soooooon!
A great place for a picnic even in winter!
