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- Tate St Ives won the 2018 Art Fund Museum of the Year
Art Fund director and Chair of the Judges Stephen Deuchar described the new extention to the museum as 'Deeply inteligent and breathtakingly beautiful'...
- Having its toes in the gushing waters of the river Calder, Wakefield's Art Gallery is a superb choice for a cultural day out. It was also a well deserved WINNER of the Art Fund Museum of the Year last year, 2017..
An art fund card will earn a good discount for purchases here, and there are some other treats not too far away also!
- We are delighted that, following last years December Flood, our favourite North London Gallery, James Freeman are open and once more thrilling us with some outrageously imaginative works.
From 8th to 28th March 2018, another show not to miss from James Freeman was 'Makers of Marks'
Drawing and printmaking have much shared history and enjoy a deeply interwoven relationship, but even so, contemporary artists still find new ways of making them play off each other. In 'Makers of Marks' the gallery present three artists who experiment with this relationship against a background of classical references: Daniel Hosego, Sam Branton and Jon Braley.
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Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield's Art Gallery is a superb choice for a cultural day out, and having its toes in the gushing waters of the river Calder, it is now a well deserved WINNER of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017..
An art fund card will earn a good discount for purchases here, and there are some other treats not too far away also!
The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery. Photo by Marc Atkins.
David Chipperfield's £35 million building - ten grey trapezoidal boxes, each housing a room - has a stern beauty in perfect harmony with the surroundings. The gallery was nominated for the Art Fund Prize 2013.
Inside you'll find an extensive but focused permanent collection of 20th-century art bought by the forward-thinking curators of Wakefield Art Gallery, which was set up in 1923, and is now supplemented with some exciting loans. At the heart of this core collection sit a large number of pieces by Barbara Hepworth herself, who grew up in the city, the daughter of an engineer.
Hepworth's achievement is shown alongside that of her contemporaries at home and abroad. Selected sculptures by Henry Moore, who also grew up in Wakefield, include an elegant Reclining Figure in elm from 1936. One room explores Hepworth's art in relation to European Modernism, with works by Brancusi, Gaudier-Brzeska, Naum Gabo and Mondrian. Another looks at Hepworth's time in St Ives, where she worked from 1939 until her death in 1975, and where she made her monumental bronzes.
The Calder, a contemporary art space opposite the main gallery, opened in August 2014.
With Yorkshire Sculpture Park only seven miles away and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds just up the road, Hepworth Wakefield is at the centre of a hub for modern sculpture.
Furthermore an energetic itinerary could take in all these places in one visit, spread over a day or two.
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