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Barbara Hepworth Ivon Hitchens  
Barbara Hepworth’s garden at Trewyn Studio with Two Forms, 1968 and Stone Sculpture, 1956. Photograph by Bob Berry © Alan Bowness, Hepworth Estate Ivon Hitchens at Greenleaves in the late 1940s © Estate of the Artist Several of the artists whose work is represented in this exhibition have made gardens themselves.

This section introduces some of these gardens, and explores the range of very different purposes for which they were made.
Derek Jarman Ian Hamilton Finlay
Derek Jarman at Prospects Cottage, Dungeness. Photograph by Howard Sooley © Howard Sooley Ian Hamilton Finlay at Little Sparta 2001