Artist field note

Barbara Hepworth

A hole can be part of the sculpture.

Single Form by Barbara Hepworth — Example from the series
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Single Form

1961-64

A tall pierced bronze stands as memorial and presence without becoming a figurative statue.

The five in one idea

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