Dates
Until 1.30pm
About this event
In celebration of Barbara Hepworth’s birthday and the exhibition Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, Ella Frears reads a selection of poems commissioned for Tate St Ives in 2020. Many of the poems directly reference the works of St Ives artists such as On Stringing The Form. Barbara Hepworth’s stringed sculptures become inspiration for a poem that brings together feelings of joy and connectedness with the world.
The performance will be BSL interpreted.
Strings – threaded and fixed: An enormous feeling, contained within a small body, under an enormous sky.
Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. Her debut collection, Shine, Darling, (Offord Road Books, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her latest pamphlet I AM THE MOTHER CAT written as part of her residency at John Hansard Gallery is out with Rough Trade Books (2021).
Ella was recently named Poet in Residence for the Dartington Trust’s grade II listed Gardens, selected by Alice Oswald. She is a trustee and editor for Magma Poetry and has been Poet in Residence for the National Trust, Tate Britain, The John Hansard Gallery, K6 Gallery, SPUD (the Observatory), conservation organisation Back from the Brink, and was poet in residence at Royal Holloway University physics department, writing about the Cassini Space Mission.
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