Sheila Hicks is an American-born artist who for more than 50 years has used weaving as the basis of her work. The Hepworth Wakefield hosted the first UK retrospective of her work, and the gallery spaces were fantastic for displaying works with plenty of space to sit and look. Sheila Hicks: Off Grid featured over 70 pieces of work from public and private collections that span the earliest days of her career to the wonderful new commissions specifically for the exhibition at the Hepworth, including a piece for the garden. Walking to the bottom of the stairs, the first glimpse of Sheila Hicks' work greeted you: VARMAYANA (The Place of Shining Light), 2018 - the scale and size of which, along with the mesmerising colours, made you linger on the stairs, hoping no one behind bumped into you. The exhibition spanned four rooms of the gallery, showcasing the artist's work over the last 50 years, beginning with her training as a painter at Yale, her travels across southern America, her large scale commissions in the 1960s and 1970s, right through to new works for this retrospective.
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