The allusive sculptural work of Veronica Ryan
Imelda Barnard, ART UK
June 2021
As part of the exhibition ‘Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life’, staged to celebrate the Hepworth Wakefield’s 10th anniversary, the sculptor Veronica Ryan was invited to create a new work inspired by Hepworth’s practice.
Her interest in Hepworth is longstanding: she was artist-in-residence at Tate St Ives from 1998–2000, working directly in Hepworth’s Palais de Danse studio and using donated pieces of the artist’s unused marble. […]