Saturday 22 October 2011–Sunday 29 January 2012
The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
WF1 5AW
Free Admission
Open Tues–Sun 10am–5pm
Closed Mon (except school and bank holidays)
The Hepworth Wakefield presents a new group of large-scale paintings by Clare Woods. The Unquiet Head is an exploration of a psychological relationship with landscape describing an erotic, abjected bodily terrain and its genius loci. Woods’ paintings use a motif of ancient rock formations found within the British landscape—monumental stones with a supernatural quality that have also been a formative influence on British modernists including Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. Woods has curated an accompanying display of their work in dialogue with her own practice. She has also addressed the work of Jean Fautrier in her suite of smaller scale paintings of heads that use natural form and organic abstraction to conjure a sense of threat, frailty and cruelty.
The Unquiet Head features a catalogue with essays by Simon Wallis (Director The Hepworth Wakefield), Chris Stephens (Head of Displays Tate Britain) and Michael Bracewell.
Clare Woods will be in conversation on Thursday 19 January 2012 at 7pm, and a special screening of renowned filmmaker John Wyver’s new documentary about the artist is on Thursday 15 December at 7pm, tickets 7 GBP (5 GBP).
To book email hello@hepworthwakefield.org or call +44 (0)1924 247360.
