The 20th-century Singaporean-British sculptor Kim Lim once said that her practice was informed “not so much [by] volume, mass and weight, but with form, space, rhythm and light”.
These concerns ripple throughout a new landmark exhibition covering almost 40 years of the artist’s career, from 1959 to 1997. Held at the Hepworth Wakefield, with its views of the River Calder and the Hepworth Garden, the exhibition offers a suitably meditative and sensuous space in which to experience Lim’s work. On display are bold structures assembled from metal and wood offcuts, lithographic prints and etchings, documentary photography and dazzling stone sculptures carved with rhythmic grooves.
