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Phyllida Barlow on Bethan Huws

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First encountering Bethan Huws' work during the degree show at the Royal College of Art in 1988, Phyllida Barlow recalls how, ever since then, it has had an impact on her own approach to sculpture. Phyllida joins Ned McConnell for a discussion of Huws' work, how sculpture has a sensory language and what her own relationship to collecting and objects is.

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