Discover Those Who Remember Their Births, a new commission at Tate St Ives by Istanbul-based artist Gözde İlkin, whose work explores the stories and memories held within textiles. Using batik and wire, İlkin transforms vintage family bedsheets into flowing, wave-like sculptures inspired by the coastline of west Cornwall. Developed during a residency at Porthmeor Studios, the work brings together embroidered images inspired by archive photographs and contributions from local women, celebrating the lives, labour and communities that have shaped St Ives across generations. Look closely and you’ll see how everyday handmade objects carry stories of belonging, care and collective memory.
Community collaborations form an important part of the commission, reflecting İlkin’s interest in creating artworks through dialogue, shared experience and collective memory.
Local collaborations led by Georgina Kennedy, Curator, Communities and Cassie Penn, Assistant Curator, Communities.
Collaborator: Jo McIntosh.
Community Contributors: Valerie Canavan, Ebby Rae Cotterill, Freya Cotterill-Prisk, Denise Morris, Gamze Polat, and Julie Tesseyman.
Those Who Remember Their Births is commissioned by Tate St Ives, curated by Anne Barlow, Director, Tate St Ives with Assistant Curator Dara McElligott. Supported by SAHA.
