Helen Clarke, Twelve Roots, 2023. Bronze. Upturned roots arranged like a henge, marking time through agrarian cycles.

Winner of Chanel Next Prize commission, RCA Sculpture MA 2023.

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Giuseppe Penone, *Sculture di linfa*, 2005-2007. Carrara marble walls, leather holding bark's memory, resin flowing through carved wood.| @gagosiangallery.bsky.social

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Barbara Hepworth, The Family of Man, 1970. Bronze. Nine figures rising from Yorkshire hillside like ancient menhirs. Yorkshire a sculpture Park holds the only complete set in Europe.

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622. Carrara marble; Pluto's fingers pressing into yielding flesh. Striking.

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Berlinde De Bruyckere, from "A simple prophecy," Hauser & Wirth Zurich, 2023. Bronze, lead, wax—cowled figures bearing witness.

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Constantin Brâncuși, Bird in Space, 1923. Marble polished to pure abstraction, capturing essence of flight.

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Phoenician carved shell (Tridacna), 700-600 BC. A woman’s head carved from the umbo, the windblown shell becoming her cloak.

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