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Here is the surprising case of Henry Moore - an artist who could uncover dungeons and desert dunes within the cavities of an elephant skull and who could map out invented land formations as if seen from space. These landscapes indicate a shift in Moore's thinking and approach to both sculpture and drawing. They mark a change from his immediate post-war perception of himself as an artist with an integral role to play in society to that of a more personal and private venture. Eleven of the drawings in this exhibition are publised here for the first time and thirty have never been previously exhibited. The exhibition takes as its starting point the late 1950's, when Moore first fragmented the human figure in order to convey a sense of metamorphosis with the land.