Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life at the Tate St Ives
Until 01 May 2023 The Tate St Ives, in collaboration with The Hepworth Wakefield and the National Galleries of Scotland, is presenting Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life.
This stunning and extensive exhibition presents four and a half decades of Hepworth's remarkable sculptures, paintings and drawings. Born in Wakefield in 1903, Hepworth moved to St Ives in August 1939, escaping the threat of WW2 bombings with her husband Ben Nicholson and young triplets. Hepworth was to live and work in St Ives for the rest of her life. The position of St Ives at the heart of British Modernism is in no small measure due to Hepworth and Nicholson; the school of abstract artists coalescing around them over the next two decades. The sculptor's former residence and workspace in the town, Trewyn Studio, is now the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden.
A must-see show which not only contains a truly remarkable collection of Hepworth's sculpture, but also some of her wonderful hospital studies and design work.