Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures – a rich and witty retrospective that smells like chocolate

By Kerry Harker, PhD Candidate, Feminism and the Visual Arts , University of Leeds

A bubbling Jacuzzi-sized fountain of molten chocolate greets visitors at the entrance to Life Pleasures, a major retrospective of British artist Helen Chadwick at the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield. The piece, named Cacao, was made in 1994, two years before the artist’s sudden death of a heart attack aged just 42.

The installation encourages visitors to engage their senses of smell and sound as well as…

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