The Hepworth Wakefield: Yorkshire's major new art gallery
The Hepworth Wakefield: Yorkshire's major new art gallery
The Hepworth Wakefield: Yorkshire's major new art gallery
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II A place of inspiration for all<br />
This building is the result of a unique combination of two English spatial intellects.<br />
Barbara <strong>Hepworth</strong>’s work is characterised by an extreme refinement of form,<br />
sensibility of material and tenacity of purpose. <strong>The</strong> building that David Chipperfield<br />
has designed to house her work combines tough formal precision with a playful<br />
organicism that exactly complements her indomitable spirit as a pioneering<br />
woman sculptor. Yorkshire was a fertile ground for a sensibility of form that comes<br />
out of an historic collective engagement with the e<strong>art</strong>h. This <strong>gallery</strong> in <strong>Wakefield</strong> is<br />
blessed with an extraordinary site at the confluence of two canals, it will become<br />
a place of pilgrimage for all lovers of sculpture and now with the Henry Moore<br />
Institute in Leeds, and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park will in the future be a place of<br />
inspiration for all.<br />
Antony Gormley
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