MOORE/HEPWORTH

A Collaborative Conference Friday 3 & Saturday 4 June 2011

HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE · ART GALLERY · PARK THE HEPWORTH ·

2011 sees focused attention being given to the work of and in Yorkshire. The opening of (21 May 2011), with inaugural collections displays including a previously unknown and unique collection of forty Hepworth , the retrospective exhibition of Moore’s work at , and the prominent inclusion of the two artists’ work at the Henry Moore Institute, Longside Gallery and provide the perfect opportunity to consider the relationships between these two artists in the county of their birth. Five arts organisations in the region have worked together to stage a conference that considers the local, geographical, social and political contexts for the artistic development and subsequent critical reception of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

This multi-site two-day conference includes papers and presentations that consider Moore and Hepworth in relation to their connections with the region. Moore/Hepworth critically examines the relationship between these artists and Yorkshire, exploring the specificity of place, re-examining the imagery of landscape and exploring the approaches to display, both indoor and outdoor, that have been adopted for these artist’s sculptures. These dialogues focus on three main areas of critical enquiry: art education, tutors and Leeds College of Art curricula in the pre- and post-1945 period; British landscape, archaeology and the construction of person/place/art object identities and the ways that these two artists’ Yorkshire ‘roots’ played an important part in the critical reception of their work; collections, exhibitions, acquisition and display in the region - indoor and outdoor - since the early twentieth century

During the conference exhibitions at the five organisations are open.

For full conference programme visit Henry Moore Institute website www.henry-moore.org/hmi

Tickets: £20/£10 concessions.

For more information or to make a booking please contact Kirstie Gregory, Research Programme Assistant at the Henry Moore Institute: [email protected] .

FRIDAY 3 rd JUNE, 10am-7pm

Registration from 10am at Henry Moore Institute Reception, followed by a chance to see Leeds Art Gallery Henry Moore exhibition with Sarah Brown (Leeds Art Gallery) and Chris Stephens ( Britain). Lunch and evening wine reception included. Speakers/papers:

Ben Read () Moore, Hepworth, and the ‘Yorkshire Mafia’

Michael Paraskos ( College of Art) Finding Yourself in ‘Henry Mooreshire’

Christa Lichtenstern (Independent) Concrete and Imagination. Reflections on the similarities and differences in the way Hepworth and Moore respond to landscape

Catherine Jolivette (Missouri State University) The Embodied Landscape: Place, Body and identity in the work of Henry Moore & Barbara Hepworth

Christine Finn (JB Priestley Library, Bradford University) ‘Figures in a Landscape’: Jaquetta Hawkes, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth

John Wyver (Illuminations/University of Westminster) Sculptures in a landscape: works by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in two films by John Read

SATURDAY 4 th JUNE, 9am-7pm

Coaches leave Henry Moore Institute (Cookridge St) for Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Longside Gallery at 9am. At YSP there will be presentations on Moore and Hepworth’s work from the curators as well as an opportunity to view the YSP art education archive in the company of Chris Bailey (Leeds Metropolitan University) and curator-led tours of the current exhibitions.

Coaches will leave for The Hepworth Wakefield at 2pm where there will be tours with THW curators, followed by a film screening introduced by () and Chris Stephens (Tate Britain). Lunch will be provided and the day will end with a wine reception at 5.30pm. Coaches will take delegates back to Wakefield and Leeds at 7pm.

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SUNDAY 5 th JUNE

As an addition to the conference, the Friends of YSP have planned a full day trip to Adel Crag, Brimham Rocks and Methley Church, all places that Moore frequently cited as sources of inspiration. The coach will leave from YSP and also pick up in Leeds. Separate charge of £25.

For more information and a booking form contact Kay Ratcliffe, 01924 832632, [email protected] .