Laura Gascoigne

The spare, graceful, revelatory sculptures of Kim Lim

Plus: Elisabeth Frink has become a marginal figure – but I bet her arresting hombres will outlast Gormley's mannequins

Lim’s stone carvings were a revelation to me when I first saw them: Kim Lim working on ‘Twice’ (1966). Credit: Estate of Kim Lim / Turnbull Studio. All Rights Reserved, DACS. Photo: Jorge Lewinski. © The Lewinski Archive at Chatsworth. All Rights Reserved 2023 / Bridgeman Images  
issue 06 January 2024
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  • Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light

    The Hepworth Wakefield, until 2 June

  • Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within

    Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, until 21 April

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