Art Talk – Barbara Hepworth: Drawing and a particular kind of ‘bite’

To coincide with this exhibition, we are hosting a series of Art Talks focusing on artists with works that feature in our Collection.
Join us from 6.30pm – 8pm, £5 per ticket.  Refreshments served from 6pm
Barbara Hepworth: Drawing and  a particular kind of ‘bite’
Dr Stephen FeekeThursday 16 April
Being primarily a carver of stone and wood, Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) liked to draw on surfaces that had ‘bite’, which she scraped and rubbed as if they were a sculpture. Until relatively recently, Hepworth’s paintings and drawings have been comparatively neglected aspects of her practice amongst scholars and curators. Yet working in two dimensions was fundamental to Hepworth’s œuvre and she produced more than 500 examples at various moments across her career, including some of the most inventive and surprising pieces she ever made. Starting with Ruby’s Three Groups of Figures on a Pink Ground (1949), in this lecture I shall focus on some such examples from the various thematic groups Hepworth explored, including figurative life studies, abstractions and landscapes and will consider how they related to her main preoccupations and concerns.

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