Top 10 art exhibitions outside of London this summer
Pack your bags, grab your camera and head for the open road: these are the best exhibitions across the UK that may just tempt you on a mini-break.
If you plan to head to Cornwall's calm shores this summer, make a beeline for Tate Modern's little sister, Tate St Ives – nominated this year for Art Fund's Museum of the Year Award. This summer, Tate St Ives stages the first comprehensive UK retrospective in twenty years of British abstract artist and figurative painter Patrick Heron.
With a great number of large-scale paintings and abstract works spanning fifty years, from 1943 to 1996, Patrick Heron traces the evolution of Heron's style, colour, composition and scale. Staged in Tate St Ives new galleries, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore the trajectory of a modern master.
How far from London: It's just over five and a half hours to St Ives from London Paddington on the train.
What to read on the train: Everything I know about Love, Dolly Alderton
The romantic minefield that was MSN Messenger will give all millennials a pang of nostalgia. Then there’s the moment you plan out an entire future with the person you’ve only just matched with on Tinder. Or the heart-wrenching blow of a break up – and the friends who rush to pick up the pieces. These highs and heartaches, spanning angsty adolesence to torrid twenties make for an engaging and instantly relatable memoir from journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton.
