Artist field note

Barbara Hepworth

A hole can be part of the sculpture.

Curved Form (Trevalgan) by Barbara Hepworth
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Curved Form (Trevalgan)

1956

The sculpture opens and closes around voids, making landscape felt through bodily form.

The five in one idea

Hepworth made solid form and empty space interdependent, giving modern sculpture a quieter, bodily kind of monumentality.