There was recently an exhibition by the textile artist Sheila Hicks at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield. I had seen her work previously at the Venice Biennale back in 2017 : great coloured balls of wool stacked in a corner of the great rope building in the Arsenale. At the most recent exhibition at the Hepworth in Wakefield there was work gathered from her 60 year career and travels to many countries
Below are the notes and photographs I made as I wandered round this delightful gallery The place, the texture, the colour makes me want to cry. The devoted craft to produce things that did not exist before The beautiful tangibility that one can’t touch, but it is there, really there Something about being woven, the intricacy and order Depth of colour Bound and free An accumulation defined and arranged Reaching to the sky and falling to the earth Art gallery as a place of thinking, seeing, feeling, tasting Order and display, and some of the items in this exhibition are site specific and arranged for here. A sense of place - a gift of place And wanting to sit on the floor and cry
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