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===Arts and media=== {{See also|Media in Cornwall}} [[File:Tate gallery St-Ives.jpg|thumb|Tate Gallery at [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]]]] [[File:Sphere With Inner Form.jpg|thumb|upright|Artwork in the [[Barbara Hepworth]] Museum in St Ives]] Since the 19th century, Cornwall, with its unspoilt maritime scenery and strong light, has sustained a vibrant visual art scene of international renown. Artistic activity within Cornwall was initially centred on the art-colony of [[Newlyn]], most active at the turn of the 20th century. This [[Newlyn School]] is associated with the names of [[Stanhope Forbes]], [[Elizabeth Forbes (artist)|Elizabeth Forbes]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Elizabeth Adela Forbes | publisher=PenleeHouse.org.uk | url=http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/elizabeth-forbes.htm | access-date=11 May 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513054831/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/elizabeth-forbes.htm | archive-date=13 May 2007 | url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Norman Garstin]] and [[Lamorna Birch]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Samuel John Lamorna Birch |publisher=HayleGallery.co.uk |url=http://www.haylegallery.co.uk/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=59 |access-date=11 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004723/http://www.haylegallery.co.uk/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=59 |archive-date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> Modernist writers such as [[D. H. Lawrence]] and [[Virginia Woolf]] lived in Cornwall between the wars,<ref>{{Cite news | title=Virginia Woolf | work=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/n/nicolson-woolf.html | access-date=11 May 2007 | archive-date=9 December 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209175353/http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/n/nicolson-woolf.html | url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Ben Nicholson]], the painter, having visited in the 1920s came to live in St Ives with his then wife, the sculptor [[Barbara Hepworth]], at the outbreak of the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ben Nicholson |publisher=StormFineArts.com |url=http://www.stormfinearts.com/images/gallery_b/b-nicholson/b-nicholson.html |access-date=11 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230035209/http://www.stormfinearts.com/images/gallery_b/b-nicholson/b-nicholson.html |archive-date=30 December 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They were later joined by the Russian emigrant [[Naum Gabo]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Naum Gabo | publisher=Artnet.com | url=http://www.artnet.com/artist/660735/naum-gabo.html | access-date=11 May 2007 | archive-date=13 April 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070413003422/http://www.artnet.com/artist/660735/naum-gabo.html | url-status=live }}</ref> and other artists. These included [[Peter Lanyon]], [[Terry Frost]], [[Patrick Heron]], [[Bryan Wynter]] and [[Roger Hilton]]. St Ives also houses the Leach Pottery, where [[Bernard Leach]], and his followers championed Japanese inspired studio pottery.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bernard Leach and the Leach Pottery |publisher=Studio-Pots.com |url=http://www.studio-pots.com/leach.htm |access-date=11 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403031403/http://www.studio-pots.com/leach.htm |archive-date=3 April 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Much of this modernist work can be seen in [[Tate St Ives]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Tate St Ives | publisher=Tate.org.uk | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/ | access-date=11 May 2007 | archive-date=5 May 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505124143/http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The Newlyn Society and [[Penwith Society of Arts]] continue to be active, and contemporary visual art is documented in a dedicated online journal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artcornwall.org |title=art and artists in Cornwall including Cornish galleries |publisher=art cornwall .org |access-date=25 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704182708/http://www.artcornwall.org/ |archive-date=4 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Local television programmes are provided by [[BBC Spotlight|BBC South West]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfr1|title=BBC One - Spotlight|website=BBC|accessdate=6 December 2022}}</ref> & [[ITV West Country]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/topic/cornwall|title=ITV West Country Cornwall news for Bristol and the West Country|website=ITV News|accessdate=6 December 2022}}</ref> Radio programmes are produced by [[BBC Radio Cornwall]] in Truro for the entire county, [[Heart West]], [[Source FM]] for the Falmouth and Penryn areas, [[Coast FM (West Cornwall)|Coast FM]] for west Cornwall, [[Radio St Austell Bay]] for the St Austell area, [[NCB Radio]] for north Cornwall & [[Pirate FM]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://radio-live-uk.com/england/cornwall|title=List of radio stations in the Cornwall|website=radio-live-uk.com|accessdate=6 December 2022|archive-date=6 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206024419/https://radio-live-uk.com/england/cornwall|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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