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Author: Emma West

Emma West is a researcher and writer with a passion for modern art, design, literature and performance. After completing her PhD at Cardiff University she was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Modernist Cultures, Modernism/modernity, Decorating Dissidence and The Modernist Review. She is currently writing her first book, Art for the People: Everyday Encounters with the Arts in Modern Britain. When she’s not writing or researching she spends her time painting flowers or animals, or sometimes both. She tweets @emmagenevieve and shares her research at https://emmawest.art.blog.

Postcards in Isolation 6: Barbara Hepworth, Spring, 1965

20th May 202020th May 2020  Emma West

Emma West discovered Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture, Spring, 1965, at the beginning of what would become a pilgrimage of the sculptor’s work around the UK. Here, she reflects on Hepworth’s sculptures in situ, the importance of touch and having hope for life after lockdown.

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