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A fascinating exhibition exploring the work of Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody has recently opened at The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield.
Moody arrived in England in 1923 to study dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital and qualified in 1930. He pursued sculpture alongside his work as a dentist, practising using dental
materials. The exhibition brings together over 50 Moody works from large-scale figurative sculptures made in wood in the 1930s through to post-war experimentation with concrete and resin
casting. These works are set within the context of his contemporaries Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore.
You can read more about Ronald Moody's life and family in Dental Historian; visit: https://lindsaysociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011-2022/PDF/Dental-Historian-662-2021pdf.
To coincide with the exhibition, a new biography, Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski is available from the BDA library: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/biography/.
For more on the exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, visit https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/ronald-moody-sculpting-life/.
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