I hope it’s a start for new series of posts.
The Hepworth is a huge gallery in the heart of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, UK. 🇬🇧
Object opened in 2011 to house local art collection and provide a legacy for Barbara Hepworth. Barbara Hepworth was born just in Wakefield. For sure more about this sculptor in separate post.
The Hepworth Wakefield history: https://hepworthwakefield.org/our-story/our-history/
Same building is great project and I promise another post about it.
What’s on?
Surrealism Exhibition, Gallery 9: „The Bodies of Water”
It’s a part of exhibition with more like 100 years old Surrealism. Surrealism in landscapes have few rooms. Here we can see representatives of realism who created art related to water. My favorite work is by Ro Robertson (born 1984).
„-Interlude lI, set afloat, 2024, Mild steel, sea water, rainwater, marine paint, oil stick, chalk, graphite, rocks and rope
-I turned myself into a stream, 2024
-i was a waterfall now, 2024, Mild steel, sea water, rainwater, marine
paint, oil stick, chalk, graphite, rocks and rope
-an ever changing passage, 2024
-ourselves mirrored, 2024, Mild steel, sea water, rainwater, marine paint, oil stick, chalk, graphite, rocks and rope
colours bled, 2024
i leaked onto and through, 2024, Mild steel, sea water, rainwater, marine paint, oil stick, chalk, graphite, rocks and rope
tethered, 2024
we see each other, 2024, Mild steel, sea water, rainwater, marine paint, oil stick, chalk, graphite, rocks and rope
Ro Robertson was born in Sunderland in 1984 and is currently based in West Cornwall. Artist practice spans sculpture, photography, drawing and performance. Artist’s studio is situated in a village where she is a sea view. It was inspiration for this art. Artist uses automatic surrealist drawing techniques
„Working partly on the beach, they incorporate chance encounters with sea-water and sand within their sculptures and paintings. Automatism, they have noted, is a process ‘between the unconscious and the physical world that occupies a place between inner and outer landscapes, between mind and body, a place that I consider to be outside of the rigid binary structures /ve learned to otherwise bend myself around. I embody this as a tactic to oppose being deemed ‘against nature as an LGBTQIA+ person and being considered at odds with the environment around me, an anomaly in the natural flow of life” The Hepworth More in Gallery 9.
Next artist is María Berrio born in 1982. Within Columbian artist María Berrio’s (born 1982) with serial „Land of the Sun”. Water is here kind of sanctuary for her character. For this Columbian artist collages are created analogous a story of displacement, isolation and survival in the wake of an apocalyptic crisis. Water is here solace. How great I understand this kind of solace 🙂 More in Gallery 9.
María Berrio, Open Geometry, 2022, Collage with Japanese papers and watercolor paint
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro gallery
-María Berrio, Solastagia, 2024, Collage with Japanese papers and watercolor pain
-Maria Berrie (Born 1982), The Collapsed Tower, 2022: Collage with Japanese papers and watercolor paint on linen
Have a look on Rimmington’s picture. Double chains linked together show how strong, unbreakable and sometimes burdensome and blocking blood ties can be.
Edith Rimmington (1902-1986), Family Tree, 1938, Photomontage with Collage and Gouache
I hope it’s enough for you to visit gallery. See you there.
