Yorkshire Sculpture Park & The Hepworth Gallery
For a gallery visit we travelled up to Wakefield in Yorkshire to explore a sculpture park and then tour around the famous Hepworth gallery. Not being to a sculpture park before, my expectations were for it to be a few sculptures dotted around the fields, I'd say those expectations were wrong and exceeded. Especially with the Giuesppe Penone exhibition, it was a perfect balance of nature and art, contrasts between heavy and light, delicate and unbreakable. the way they looked so easy, effortless and simple, but knowing they take engineering and not just art to function. They looked as if they were always there, in their natural habitat. I particularly liked the way all of them were carefully placed, some framing views and some framing other sculptures in the backgrounds. Going around showed them in different viewpoints and sight lines, seeing them from miles away being a huge contrast from up close. This was very beneficial to me as my interest in sculpture has only recently begun. Seeing all the different styles and forms that solid materials can take by only being carved or chiselled.
Hepworth Gallery
Hepworth Gallery
After exploring the sculpture park we the went for a tour of the Hepworth Gallery. Holding many pieces from the infamous Barbra Hepworth's collection. her style being very abstract and bold with the solid yet smooth materials she uses. In the first room we were met by a huge tribal looking wall piece that instantly reminded me of what I am aiming to produce for the exhibition at St Georges hall with its scale and impact as you enter the room. It's flow and organic appearance like a wave, the colours showing the form off too. Not really researching her work before, I wasn't aware of her work and style, but within this building all her pieces looked perfectly arranged and fit in with their surroundings. I especially liked the room with the bigger scale metal pieces, just the scale of The Winged Figure at the back of the room dwarfed all the others, but didn't necessarily take the attention off them. The huge metal structure was by far my favourite sculpture of hers and just seeing the craftsmanship and how well it was executed to look so seamless, effortless but also powerful. After the visit I have researched more of her work and I want to take influence with it in the future, but with my aim of the St Georges Hall exhibition being solidly out of paper, I will only take her forms as inspiration for now.
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