Conversations with Magic Stones by Vivienne Tregenza Kate Tempest Against a backdrop of the

Against a backdrop of the sounds and sensations of daily life

The Second World War occupies a special place in Russian memory

face-to-face with the mystery of our being here

self and other

Taggard constantly challenged herself as a woman

Conversations with Magic Stones by Vivienne Tregenza Kate Tempest Against a backdrop of theConversations with Magic Stones commemorates the life and work of Barbara Hepworth, fifty years after her death in a fire at her home in St Ives. It goes on to explore the Hepworth themes of figures in the landscape, loss, resilience and transformation, moving from the poets home in West Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and back again.