Interior Dialogue
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- Type: Sculpture
- Medium: Bronze
- Production Date: 2023
- Copy Number: 1
- Edition: 7
- Description: This artwork, and Oval Interior (see 2023.48), was created in response to Christine Borland‘s long-held emotional and intellectual engagement with Barbara Hepworth‘s work and in particular Oval Sculpture, 1943. It recreates the Hepworth‘s hollowed-out interior as a solid form, revealing spaces 'hidden' within the sculpture.
Central to the ideas behind Oval Interior and Interior Dialogue is to make visible an absence or a presence that without careful and intimate consideration, would go unseen. Barbara Hepworth placed great importance on human connection and the role of internal intuition, once noting, ‘I rarely draw what I see ‘ I draw what I feel in my body.‘ She frequently asks us to consider the fragility of human life and the way in which it is valued by social systems and institutions, an idea which occupied Hepworth as she made the series of wooden, oval sculptures in the mid-1940s.
Christine‘s decision to cast Interior Dialogue in bronze - whose stability is in diametric opposition to the CNC rigid foam of Oval Interior - echoes Hepworth‘s move into bronze in the 1950s when she began casting, most often in editions of 6 or 7, including Figure (Archaean) in Stirling‘s Art Collection which was produced in 1957.
Oval Interior and Interior Dialogue are currently deliberately sited alongside Barbara Hepworth‘s sculpture so that the correlation and between the works can be explored and the bodies passing by become an integral part of the dialogue. - Acquisition Note: An NFA supported purchase
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Pathfoot Gallery 1
- Accession Number: 2023.47
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
