Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) is known for her abstract sculptures and pioneering method of “piercing” the form.
Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium surveys the artist’s enduring oeuvre and remarkable story with more than forty artworks made of stone, wood, marble, and bronze from early figurative carvings to later large-scale, simplified abstract forms. The exhibition highlights Hepworth’s exploration of the tension between mass and negative space with sculptures punctured by large holes; the relationship between figure and landscape, forms presented side-by-side, colour and texture, and the individual and collective.
Barbara Hepworth, Pierced Rounded Form, 1960, 22.5 × 14 × 8cm. Barbara Hepworth © Bowness. Photograph: © The British Council. Courtesy the British Council Collection and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Heide Museum of Modern Art
5 November 2022 to 13 March 2023
Melbourne
