Tag: Henry Moore Institute
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Beyond the Visual
A groundbreaking exhibition turns the way we think about sculpture on its head. Every object has its own audio description and is there to be touched, completely accessible to all, sighted or blind
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Michael E Smith
A scruffy old armchair, two grubby basketballs, ventilation panels, dirty white walls – it’s unsettling, not what you expect of a show. But this sense of discomfiture is exactly what Smith wants you to feel
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Rebecca Fortnum – interview: ‘I’m trying to bring these women back to life by painting them in flesh-like tones’
As Fortnum was at the Henry Moore Institute, installing her exhibition of paintings and drawings of sculptures of women connected to Rodin, she spoke candidly about her belief that the sculptor received a ‘bad press’ and about the slippage between…
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A State of Matter: Modern and Contemporary Glass Sculpture
A diverting group exhibition makes the case for glass as an artistic medium, showcasing some bedazzling craft in the process
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Rafael Pérez Evans – interview: ‘Food contains a lot of emotion’
The artist talks about growing up in a farming community in rural Spain, queer and rural shame, and the importance of reuniting living, thinking and making through a practice that disrupts
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Claire Ashley – interview: ‘I’m not an artist who is scared about the word entertainment’
Ashley makes vast colourful, oddball inflatables. She talks about giving life to these characters, taking up space, and allowing humour and entertainment as access points to her art
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Neil Gall: ‘As an artist, you are almost trying to find a new kind of beauty’
For his current show at the Henry Moore Institute, Gall has played around with old copies of The Studio magazine to make new cover versions. He talks about how he came across the old issues and what they mean to…
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City Sculpture Projects 1972
Two of the 14 original sculptures are accompanied by other work from that time, alongside maquettes and models, and documentation from a special edition of Studio International produced to accompany the 1972 project
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An artist who is changing sculpture: Katrina Palmer
Lisa Le Feuvre, the head of sculpture studies at the Henry Moore Institute, tells the fascinating tale of London’s Necropolitan Railway, the inspiration for Katrina Palmer’s sculptural installation, which takes visitors on a one-way journey
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Carol Bove/Carlo Scarpa
This exhibition brings together sculptures by US artist Carol Bove and furniture and sculptures by Venetian architect and exhibition designer Carlo Scarpa
