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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Wrestlers, 1914

Developed as part of the History of Art Department's research partnership with Tate Britain, Turner's research on Gaudier-Brzeska forms the second of Tate's new online 'In Focus' projects, which aim to deliver original, journal-class archival and object-based research through Tate's website. Turner was seconded for twenty days to Tate Britain, where she developed an account of a single object, Gaudier-Brzeska's Wrestlers, from different angles represented in the digital publication, including the object's patronage, development, material history, context in literary Modernism, and within the broader social history of wrestling in the period and beyond. In addition to Turner's writing for the project (about 8,000 words), and interdisciplinary research into the history of sport, the project also represents an impact on creative practice, including a specially commissioned commentary on the statue and ten poems inspired by it, developed in dialogue with Turner, by the poet and wrestler S.J. Fowler.