I went to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield on Thursday to see the contents of the building I had been working in, in the last few weeks of being in Yorkshire. It was almost a year ago; September 2010 I was creating cardboard installations for display in the space.
I encouraged the participants who were groups of local school children to view the space and to look at the dimensions they would be working in the design of the space, what was outside. I encouraged them to notice there place you went to in the room, the first thing you would see the direction you walked around the room.
After exploring the rooms we sat on the floor and made drawings inspired by photographs of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures. We attempted to translate this into sculpture using cardboard.
This was difficult because our ideas on paper were hard to imagine collectively as an enlarged freestanding object. We got carried away slightly with the idea of freestanding and then later with scale. There was a lack of time for some to achieve these goals and others crafted smaller scale objects which often got lost in the big room.
The key it seems is to understand the inside and outside of space and to give it the time to be crafted into its form.
