Henry Moore

The Times“The populist problem of Moore’s work remains...” This show may present a strong argument, but in the end his sculptures are too placid, too polished, too languorous, too serene...

Guardian“The sculptures slow time down to a full stop...” What really strikes me is Moore's craftsmanship, his understanding and sympathy towards the great hunks of elm, the way he followed the grain and density of the wood when he hollowed space and revealed form...

Financial Times“Moore...now looks almost provincial...” Today, Moore the consoler is dismissed as nostalgic, Bacon the provoker revered as seminal. Tate Britain’s job is to re-examine such entrenched positions. But nothing in this recapitulation supports such an overhaul of Moore’s reputation…

The Independent“Relatively little of his work can usefully be called great…” Our change of view is meant to come from the revelation that Moore had sexual urges – a truth so self-evident from his work that I can not think why we're being told it. One thing that comes through is how strangely un-modern an artist Moore was...

this is london“The young and middle-aged Moore...” In its bland familiarity it too often seems the serene untroubled work of a man in thrall to habit, smugly doing what he does, very rarely jolted into revelation of his darker side...

The Observer“Comfortable, passive, smooth, polite...” Comfortable, passive, smooth, polite: the subject can be as dramatic as a mortally wounded man, as monstrous as a lopped and bloated corpse, and still the sculptures lack singularity and power...

Time Out“Moore pleases the eye as much as he disturbs the mind...” The show asks us to see Moore's art as aligned with the dark surrealism of Georges Bataille, the poetry of TS Eliot and the complex emotional tangles unleashed by Freud...

The Telegraph“Moore's work no longer looks passé, but eternal...” Moore is unusual in that even when his best work was behind him, in every decade he continued to make individual pieces of sculpture as original and powerful as any he had done...

New Statesman“Not yet reviewed”

Art Review“Not yet reviewed”