Latitude: 51.4892 / 51°29'21"N
Longitude: -3.1834 / 3°11'0"W
OS Eastings: 317935
OS Northings: 177355
OS Grid: ST179773
Mapcode National: GBR KHJ.54
Mapcode Global: VH6F6.RTYS
Plus Code: 9C3RFRQ8+MM
Entry Name: Sculpture in forecourt of Department of Music, Cardiff University
Listing Date: 22 October 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 25834
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Also known as: Sculpture in forecourt of Department of Music, Cardiff University
ID on this website: 300025834
Location: On the W side of the entrance to the Department of Music.
County: Cardiff
Town: Cardiff
Community: Cathays
Community: Cathays
Built-Up Area: Cardiff
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Sculpture
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) was a renowned British sculptor whose works include the Memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the United Nations in New York and Contrapuntal Forms, originally for the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain in 1951. Three Oblique Forms (Walk in) is a much-enlarged version of the plaster sculpture Three Oblique Forms (February) created in 1967. Three copies of (Walk in) were cast at Morris Singer Foundry in 1969, one of which was donated to the School of Music for its new building by Alex Gordon & Partners, architects of Cardiff, officially opened in 1971. The other two were sold to private collections.
An abstract bronze sculpture on a brick plinth. The composition is a grouping of three trapezoidal wings (c 3m high and c 0.25m thick) fanned across a wide brick plinth. Each wing is pierced by an oculus of height and diameter varied in relation to its neighbours. This sculpture belongs within Hepworth’s artistic credo that her work should "infuse the formal perfection of geometry with the vital grace of nature".
Listed as a rare public work in Wales by one of the foremost C20 British sculptors, and for Group Value with the School of Music building.
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