Hepworth Prize for Sculpture shortlist for the 2018 award was announced. It comprised Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum, Phillip Lai, Magali Reus and Cerith Wyn Evans. Their work was displayed at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery from the end of October of that year. Wyn Evans was announced as the winner on 15 November 2018. Hepworth Prize for Sculpture The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture is a biennial prize for sculpture named for Barbara Hepworth and awarded by The Hepworth Wakefield. The prize seeks to recognise "a British or UK-based artist of any age, at any stage in their career, who has made a significant contribution to
Barbara Hepworth Museum Forms. A set of photographs in the museum shows the progress of this project. Wood carving was done in an upstairs room, and the bronze statues she started casting in 1956 had their origins in the plaster prototypes she worked on in the upper of the two outside studios. She was helped in the creation of the garden by her friend, the South African-born composer Priaulx Rainier. Barbara Hepworth died in a fire at this site in 1975, when she was aged 72. The family passed the museum to the Tate gallery in 1980 and they still manage it. Barbara