Hepworth, Motherhood and Loss -  Katy Norris
Channel: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Date: 2024-01-09

22/04/2023

“My whole being cries out against this… One just has to accept.”
This talk explores the impact of grief on Barbara Hepworth after the death of her son Paul in 1953. Focusing on the letters she wrote to her friend Margaret Gardiner and the trip they made together to Greece in 1954, it examines how she processed this loss, considering the extent to which this ongoing experience shaped her art over the following decades.