Zennor

Adam Garratt: My name is Adam Garratt, and I'm a Museum Assistant at RAMM.

On the ground level of the museum in the courtyard, near the café, we have an object by Barbara Hepworth, and it's called Figure in a Landscape. [Note: the correct title is Zennor, not Figure in a Landscape].

It's cast in bronze, and it's set on a wooden plinth, and it has a small section inside that's been carved out. So it's got this really lovely organic form carved into it, which has a different colour to the rest of the object. So, you have this really lovely definition of the inside and the outside.

I know that this is a small work for Barbara Hepworth. We're obviously very used to having large public sculptures that she makes.

Barbara Hepworth is synonymous with being in St Ives. She grew up in the north of England, so it's quite a vast change, I think, being in the Cornish landscape. But I think landscape is the key thing when you think of Barbara Hepworth. That organic form, I think, is what really drove her practice.

Now that the museum is open, it would be really nice to share what I've found out about this sculpture. I think part of my job role is to have those interactions with visitors and learn from them about what they've learned, but also show them things that maybe they would overlook.

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