The Facts
Tate St Ives presents "Those Who Remember Their Births," a new site-specific commission by Turkish artist Gözde İlkin, opening October 10, 2026, and running through January 17, 2027. Developed during two residencies in St Ives in 2026, the installation combines sculpture, painting, and embroidery to explore the relationships between landscape, memory, and women's lived experiences. İlkin transforms vintage family bedsheets with batik and wire into flowing, wave-like sculptural forms suspended in the gallery, drawing on archival photographs of women who contributed to local fishing, mining, and textile industries. The work incorporates stones gathered from the shoreline, covered with embroidered textiles created in collaboration with St Ives-based textile artist Jo McIntosh and local participants through workshops focused on family histories and collective memory.
The Signal
The commission is the fifth iteration of the Artist Residency and Commissions Programme between Tate St Ives and SAHA, a nonprofit supporting visual artists from Türkiye, fostering artistic exchange between St Ives and Türkiye. Previous participants include Burçak Bingöl, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Cansu Çakar, and Ahmet Doğu İpek. İlkin's practice treats found domestic textiles as repositories of memory, and this installation extends that inquiry into a communal context, embedding multiple voices through collaborative embroidery. The project signals Tate St Ives' continued commitment to international residencies that weave local histories with contemporary artistic practice, offering a model for institutionally supported, site-responsive work that values process and community engagement as much as the final installation.
- Artists: Gözde İlkin
- People: Gözde İlkin, Anne Barlow, Dara McElligott, Jo McIntosh, Georgina Kennedy, Cassie Penn
- Museums: Tate St Ives
- Locations: St Ives
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