Yorkshire major new art gallery, opening spring 2011.
I'm thrilled to be appointed as a creative practitioner at The Hepworth Wakefield. We will be responsible for inventing, developing and delivering the educational and outreach programmes in the gallery. I'll be working on primary, secondary, post 16 and family learning programmes and can't wait to get started. This is the first time I've had the opportunity to build from scratch, there is NOTHING in place - it is truly up to us.
The gallery is due to open in May 2011 and last week we had our first team meaning and got to see the building in progress and the 10 rooms that make up the gallery. It was a real privilege to see the empty spaces, some with work already installed. We got an insight into the story the rooms will tell of Barbara Hepworth's work, legacy and the role she played on an international stage. We got to see the building as sculpture, it's light, scale and angles. The slopping roofs mirror and comment on the factory buildings around and about and the buildings surface is cleverly designed to become darker when wet, a purple hue that reflects and responds to the moods of the sky and landscape that surround it. Rooms 7 to 10 will be dedicated to three contemporary temporary exhibitions per year, and I know who the artists are - whoop!
Beyond The Hepworth the land is a building site, I enjoyed seeing it in its transformative state, it felt provisional, unfinished, unpolished, the earth trudged up and suiting the cold static of winter. When The Hepworth opens in the spring this earth will be landscaped and grassed, with a zip wire, picnic area, community stage and lots of space for our art activities which we plan to take beyond the building.
I'm thrilled to be appointed as a creative practitioner at The Hepworth Wakefield. We will be responsible for inventing, developing and delivering the educational and outreach programmes in the gallery. I'll be working on primary, secondary, post 16 and family learning programmes and can't wait to get started. This is the first time I've had the opportunity to build from scratch, there is NOTHING in place - it is truly up to us.
The gallery is due to open in May 2011 and last week we had our first team meaning and got to see the building in progress and the 10 rooms that make up the gallery. It was a real privilege to see the empty spaces, some with work already installed. We got an insight into the story the rooms will tell of Barbara Hepworth's work, legacy and the role she played on an international stage. We got to see the building as sculpture, it's light, scale and angles. The slopping roofs mirror and comment on the factory buildings around and about and the buildings surface is cleverly designed to become darker when wet, a purple hue that reflects and responds to the moods of the sky and landscape that surround it. Rooms 7 to 10 will be dedicated to three contemporary temporary exhibitions per year, and I know who the artists are - whoop!
Beyond The Hepworth the land is a building site, I enjoyed seeing it in its transformative state, it felt provisional, unfinished, unpolished, the earth trudged up and suiting the cold static of winter. When The Hepworth opens in the spring this earth will be landscaped and grassed, with a zip wire, picnic area, community stage and lots of space for our art activities which we plan to take beyond the building.
