Return to The Hepworth

It's almost a year since I last went to The Hepworth in Wakefield, so it felt like time to remedy that. There were a couple of exhibitions that I wanted to see, so I treated myself to a day out (with coffee and cake, of course). The train journeys there and back were not brilliant; apparently there's been a landslip somewhere, which was causing cancellations. Wakefield has two stations: Kirkgate, quite near The Hepworth, and Westgate on the far side of the city. In the end I had to walk to Westgate to get a train home but, hey ho, it meant lots of 'steps' that day so my health app won't be nagging me! 

The gallery, as I've shown before, is a brutalist concrete structure, designed by British architect David Chipperfield and opened in 2011. I love it -  its setting in a loop of the River Calder, the uncompromising building that always seems very appropriate for the sculptures it houses, and of course the world-class exhibitions themselves.