In 1950, Barbara Hepworth was commissioned to produce a kinetic sculpture, painted white, entitled Turning Forms. Made from reinforced concrete, it is 213.3 centimetres high. Made for the Festival of Britain as a motor-driven spectacle, the sculpture was situated outside the Thameside restaurant designed by Jane Drew. Its position on the South Bank was evidentially a key landmark within a growing concrete landscape. After the festival, it was reinstalled in the grounds of a school in St. Albans and recently has undergone an intensive restoration process.
This event investigates this unique work of sculpture, not only as a work representative of the ambitions and intentions of the Festival of Britain, but as an object with many stories to tell us about the collaborative and experimental nature of sculptural fabrication and restoration.
The Hepworth Research Network brings The Hepworth Wakefield into partnership with the Department of History of Art at the University of York and the School of Art and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield.
The network aims to bring artists, art historians, conservators and curators together to share their knowledge of the material practices of sculpture. The unique resources of The Hepworth Wakefield provide a focus to enable interdisciplinary conversations that will enhance the care, display and interpretation of the sculpture of Barbara Hepworth and her contemporaries.
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