invited by Moira Jarvis
Barbara Hepworth
In choosing Barbara Hepworth I wanted to explore
Hepworth’s relationship with the natural world
alongside her use of female imagery. The design for
the place setting was developed from the oval shapes
found in her sculpture that may relate to the womb
or perhaps a Cornish bay ‘held within the arc of the
coastline’. Like her, I have spent holidays searching
for ancient flint axes on beaches in Norfolk and
Neolithic Standing Stones in the Orkneys. Those
stones chosen for Hepworth’s place setting connect
us to our past but also point to the future.
South London Women Artists I’m Inside, Ring The Bell
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