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Yorkshire Sculpture Park is celebrating
Barbara Hepworth's centenary with a
major outdoor exhibition. Hepworth was
a crucial figure of international modernism
and is one of the UK's most famous
female artists. In the 1930s, Hepworth
was probably the only professional
female artist in the UK - maybe even the
world - who used unforgiving stone as
one of her materials.
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| The exhibition reunites Hepworth's
work with one of her greatest inspirations
- the Yorkshire countryside. Hepworth
famously stated, 'I, the sculptor, am the
landscape.' She used her huge sculptures
to talk about people's experience with
the surrounding environment.
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| The exhibition will bring together more
than 50 pieces, including bronze works
and massive stone carvings.
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| 'Hepworth's fascination with landscape
was not just a source of inspiration for
her actual work. She saw it, as the park
does, as a place in which to site sculpture',
commented a spokeswoman for the
Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The exhibition
will be staged in the Yorkshire Sculpture
Park until 14 September 2003.
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| As part of the Hepworth centenary
celebrations, Tate St Ives is also hosting a
major exhibition of her work. The gallery
has gathered pieces from around the
globe, focusing on a number of specific
themes including single form, maternal
forms, landscape sculpture, scented guarea,
coloured stones, interrelated masses and
public commissions. The exhibition at
Tate St Ives runs until 12 October 2003.
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| For further information about the
exhibition and the works on display at
the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, visit
www.ysp.co.uk
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| More about the Tate St Ives exhibition
can be found at www.tate.org.uk
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