Exhibition

BARBARA HEPWORTH: GRAPHIC WORKS

1 Jan 2014 – 25 Apr 2014

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The Hepworth Wakefield

Wakefield
England, United Kingdom

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  • FREE CITY BUS The gallery is on the FreeCityBus route operated Monday – Saturday between 9.30am and 3pm.
  • The gallery is 0.3 miles from Wakefield Kirkgate train station (approximately 8 minutes walk) and 1 mile from Westgate train station (approximately 20 minutes walk).
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BARBARA HEPWORTH: GRAPHIC WORKS

About

The Hepworth Wakefield now holds the entire set of graphic works on paper by Barbara Hepworth, thanks to the Hepworth Family Gift made through the Art Fund and the support of the Friends of Wakefield Museums and Art Galleries. Hepworth made a number of print portfolios between 1969 and 1971 using screenprint and lithograph techniques. She explained how she used these processes to work on ideas which would eventually translate into sculpture, achieving an abstract sense of space, form and texture through the use of transparent smooth layers and bold mark-making. Two sets of lithographs were produced with the Curwen Press, London. Many of these works, including a series called The Aegean Suite, 1971, developed Hepworth's fascination with Greece and make links between geometric forms and sites associated with ancient Greek culture. Opposing Forms, 1970, was produced by the artist's gallery Marlborough Fine Art, London. Many of these works deal with more celestial subject matter and include abstract representations of the sun and moon, the movement of the tides and passing of the seasons. Gallery 6 will house approximately twenty graphic works at one time and the display will change throughout the exhibition period in order to show the entire body of work. Related sculptures by Hepworth from this period will be displayed alongside the prints.

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