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4 June 2015: for immediate release
Wolfson College, Cambridge, celebrates its 50th Anniversary with two world-class exhibitions highlighting
artistic process in the work of two of the most important British sculptors of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries, Henry Moore OM RA and Richard Deacon CBE RA.
Richard Deacon: ‘This is where ideas come from’ – 1 July to 30 September 2015
In 2002, Richard Deacon, winner of the Turner Prize in 1987 and one of the
world’s greatest abstract sculptors, delivered a lecture entitled ‘Where do ideas
come from?’ at Wolfson College, Oxford. Just over a dozen years later, this
exhibition at Wolfson College, Cambridge, will provide an answer. Although
Deacon’s work has been the subject of more than 25 solo exhibitions since
1975, this is the first to focus on his models for large-scale sculptures. The show
presents 16 of Deacon’s models drawn from his entire oeuvre to date, among
them one of his earliest models, that for Island in 1989, and some of his latest, such as that for Footfall
from 2013. Cumulatively, they offer a unique and unprecedented insight into Deacon’s conceptualisation
and realisation of abstract sculpture.
This exhibition has been made possible by an award from The Henry Moore Foundation. Visitors are
welcome from Tuesday to Sunday inclusive, 12:00 to 16:00.
Photo: Model for Nobody Here But Us, 1990, wood and card, 55x92x55cm, private collection
Henry Moore and Photography – 9 October 2015 to 28 February 2016
This exhibition considers the little-examined subject of the role of photography in
Henry Moore’s creative process. A selection of 20 photographs from The Henry
Moore Foundation Archive and two maquettes for monumental works, Three
Standing Figures (1945) and Reclining Figure (1969), explore Moore’s use of
photography to study light, texture and form and to help site his large-scale
sculptures. This is a rare opportunity to consider a significant aspect of Moore’s
working process, one that the artist employed throughout his long and
distinguished career. Visitors are welcome on Saturday and Sunday afternoons,
14:00 to 16:00.
Photo: Moore adjusting the focus of his Leica camera, c. 1971, reproduced by permission of The Henry
Moore Foundation
The Royal Academy at Wolfson, a rotating exhibition of 36 exceptional works by 15 Royal Academicians,
among them Eileen Cooper, Paul Huxley and the Royal Academy’s current President, Christopher Lebrun,
continues until 19 December 2015. Also on view until 1 October is the significant collection of pottery by
colleagues and students of the renowned British potter, Bernard Leach CBE, which has been recently
donated to the College by Dr Harry Bradshaw and Dr Norma Bubier.
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Please contact finearts@wolfson.cam.ac.uk:
 for further information on any of the 50th Anniversary exhibitions, the Wolfson art programme or
associated events;
 for high resolution images to illustrate an article; and
 to make an appointment to attend the Press Call for the Richard Deacon exhibition. It takes place from
Wednesday 1 July to Friday 3 July from 12:00 to 16:00 each day.
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