This long-limbed hare elegantly mimics a classic ballet pose by standing en pointe on its right leg with its knee bent and the left leg bent and raised in front. The Irish-Welsh sculptor Barry Flanagan started sculpting hares in the late 1970s, moving away from conceptual art and towards figuration. This work is modelled after the ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, a celebrated member of the Ballet Russes who was renowned for his gravity-defying leaps. The heavy and static material of bronze has become full of life, lightness and movement.