http://www.ysp.co.uk Yorkshire Sculpture Park Artist Feed en http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sophie-ryder Sophie Ryder's association with YSP began in 1986 during her residency, immediately after graduating from the RA Schools. In 2008 YSP held a major exhibition of her work at Longside Gallery and in the open air, after two important pieces were kindly offered on long term loan. 14-05-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/joz-de-loose Joz. De Loose was born in Belgium in 1925 and attended the Academy of Fine arts in Bruges. During a three-year stay in Zaïre, De Loose made an ethnographical study of the Azande tribe, which led him into making relief painting, and eventually sculpture. His work is included in international public and private collections. 14-05-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/lambert-rocour Lambert Rocour is a Belgian artist who works with traditional materials and methods to create delicately carved works. Rocour has travelled extensively and is interested in the classical antiquities of ancient civilizations, whose imagery he feeds into his own practice. 14-05-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/yue-minjun YSP presents a new work in the open air by leading Chinese artist Yue Minju who is known for depicting himself frozen in laughter in his work. Minjun adapted his self-portrait for sculpture after being invited to take part in the 1999 Venice Biennale. Using the Qin Dynasty’s army of terracotta warriors as a reference point, the artist has produced several series of bronzes featuring his laughing figure, including Contemporary Terracotta Warriors No.6, now on display at YSP. 08-05-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/magdalena-abakanowicz-exhibition In 1995 YSP presented the first UK major exhibition of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz since her Whitechapel Art Gallery show in 1975. The exhibition featured figurative work made in the 1980s and 1990s 08-05-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/richard-long YSP is showing work by Richard Long in the open air to celebrate his fascinating approach to sculpture and landscape and coincide with the exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, part of Tate’s ARTIST ROOMS series, from 23 June to 14 October 2012. 30-04-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/marcia-farquhar Marcia Farquhar works in performance, photography, video and sculpture. As well as presenting her work in a conventional gallery setting, she has also staged performances in kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks, leisure centres and lecture theatres. 23-02-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/jaume-plensa In 2011 YSP presented the first major UK exhibition by the leading international sculptor Jaume Plensa, bringing record numbers to the Park and receiving an overwhelmingly positive response. Two works by the Spanish artist remain at the Park. 14-02-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/florence-peake-make On 7 April Florence Peake brings her new performance MAKE to YSP, celebrating the working life at the Park, including the movement, cleaning and installation of sculptures. Peake will choreograph and direct performers through synchronised activity, to create a monolithic structure in Longside Gallery, which is immediately dismantled. 09-02-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/shop-showcases-2012 YSP presents a programme of two monthly-changing showcases of contemporary craft and applied arts which highlight the work of new and up-and-coming artists, alongside an ever-changing stock of beautifully designed hand-made items from UK and international artists. 01-02-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/alec-finlay-the-bee-library Open air from: 12.05.12 The Bee Library is a new project by Alec Finlay, comprising a collection of 24 bee-themed books, launched to coincide with World Book Day 2012. Once Finlay has read each book, they will be transformed into nests for ‘solitary’ or ‘wild’ bees found at YSP, forming a sculptural installation on a walking route around the lakes and woodland. 10-01-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/anthony-caro-works-from-the-house-series YSP is showing a selection of never seen before small bronze sculptures from the House series, in the YSP Centre to celebrate the major exhibition of work by one of Britain’s leading sculptors at Chatsworth from 28 March to 1 July 2012. 10-01-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/jem-finer-still This spring, visitors to YSP have the opportunity to experience Still, a beautiful installation by Jem Finer, in the calm and atmospheric YSP Chapel. Join Jem Finer in conversation discussing his work and YSP project. Find out more and book below 04-01-2012 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/miró-sculptor In collaboration with the artist’s foundations and family, YSP is proud to present the first major UK exhibition of sculpture by Joan Miró, one of Europe’s most important 20th century artists. The exhibition describes the extraordinary wealth of Miró’s sculpture, much of which was made in the second half of his life. With key works set in the landscape, the exhibition fulfils the artist’s desire that “sculpture must stand in the open air, in the middle of nature”. 20-12-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sui-jianguo Sui Jianguo (born 1956) is a leading contemporary artist in China and former Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. 15-12-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sophie-ernst-home YSP presents the first solo exhibition in the UK by Sophie Ernst. HOME is a major ongoing project confronting political turmoil and displacement with individual memories of home and ideal places. Ernst interviews people forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, such as during the Partition of South Asia in 1947, and builds an architectural model of the houses they describe. She then projects onto this sculpture video footage of the person's hands as they describe their memory of that building, transforming the inanimate object into a virtually inhabited space, and ascribing a profound intimacy. 15-12-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/alec-finlay-home-to-a-king-(3) Home to a king (3) comprises a series of ten nest boxes sited throughout the parkland, each featuring crossword clues based on the names of British trees. These can be used to complete the crossword in an accompanying free guide. Each nest-box is designed to house a particular species of bird found at YSP and is colour matched to the leaves of the tree on which it is hung, enabling the project to become an important part of the Park's natural habitat. 17-11-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/alec-finlay-circlesthroughthepath circlesthroughthepath is a walk through the park and a poetic map of the landscape. Pick up a leaflet at the YSP Centre to find and collect circle poems contained within letterboxes located on the route. circlesthroughthepath was part of Alec Finlay's YSP artist residency Avant-Garde English Landscape (2003-2005). 17-11-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/austin-wright Austin Wright had a long and important relationship with YSP. A member of the original management committee in 1977, Wright had a major solo exhibition here in 1981 and a decade later, to celebrate his 80th birthday, YSP organised a display of sculpture in the artist’s garden at Upper Poppleton. The current display of drawings and sculpture marks the centenary of the artist who was born in 1911 and died in 1997. 16-11-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/kenneth-armitage Kenneth Armitage’s figures reflect his concern with the human condition, and are usually a celebration of the everyday and ordinary. Armitage was motivated by his experiences in the Second World War. The simplified appearance of his work was influenced by his role in the army identifying planes by their silhouette. 16-11-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/leo-fitzmaurice-arcadia Arcadia consists of four signs in different locations at YSP, with different characteristics, ranging from the entry point to the expanses of Lower Park. In the signs, Fitzmaurice works with the sculptural quality of words; the architecture of letters. He considers ideas of arcadia – a utopian region of contentment – and in so doing questions what has made and makes a place like the Bretton Estate, and how we choose to experience it. 23-09-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/daniel-belasco-rogers YSP is delighted to be working with the Live Art Development Agency on DIY08, a development programme that gives artists working in Live Art the opportunity to conceive and run training and professional development projects for other artists. 19-09-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/phillip-king Phillip King was part of the New Generation of sculptors who, through a series of exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in the 1960s, rejected the idea that sculpture is a means of representing something else. Instead, they explored sculpture-making for its own sake, including the properties of different materials, methods of construction and the final objects that could be created. 16-09-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/magdalena-abakanowicz The great Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz makes a welcome return to YSP this autumn with a powerful installation of new works. 16-09-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/ursula-von-rydingsvard Inspired by everyday environments and objects, Ursula Von Rydingsvard has developed a personal artistic language using raw materials to create sculpture that reveals the mark of the maker. 16-09-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/igor-mitoraj Igor Mitoraj’s work is based on the classical definition of beauty. Héros de Lumière is carved from a block of carrara marble as favoured by Renaissance sculptors such as Michelangelo, who believed he was carving to release figures trapped in the stone. 01-08-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/historic-lakes-and-woodland On 23 July the historic lakes and woodland opened to visitors for the first time since their creation in the late 18th century. This followed a major programme of work informed by the Historic Landscape Management Plan, carried out by the Landscape Agency and made possible through funding from Natural England and support from Wakefield Council and private sponsorship. The display in the Upper Space and associated publication documents the project and celebrates the opening of this unique part of the YSP site. 20-07-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/aeneas-wilder Anticipation, a deafening clatter, dust, the smell of wood and finally applause – artist Aeneas Wilder kicked down his Longside Gallery work Untitled # 155 on Thursday 3 November. The sculpture was the first major UK installation by Aeneas Wilder, conceived especially for the Gallery. 22-06-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/donna-wilson-endangered-species Scottish designer Donna Wilson brings her playful textiles to Yorkshire Sculpture Park this winter, drawing inspiration from the landscape to create an eccentric world of knitted trees and curiosities featuring her trademark patterns and colours alongside exclusive limited edition prints. Named ‘Designer of the Year 2010’ by Elle Decoration, Donna is known for her knitted creatures, textiles, homewares and furniture. 02-06-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/the-feiweles-trust-final-bursary-exhibition An exhibition of creative writing and illustration produced by children of all ages from Wakefield District Schools. Please note this exhibition is open at the NAEA on Mondays and Tuesdays or by appointment only. 24-05-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/henry-moore-and-landscape YSP celebrated its first decade with the largest ever exhibition of Henry Moore sculptures. The grounds of the Park were entirely given over to the exhibition which featured more than 30 works. 17-05-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/henry-moore-in-the-bretton-country-park This exhibition presented a rare opportunity to see a significant group of sculptures by Henry Moore in the Yorkshire landscape, a region resonant with Moore's early memories and a seminal influence. 17-05-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/barbara-hepworth-and-landscape To celebrate the launch of The Hepworth Wakefield, YSP has worked with the Hepworth Estate to display photographs, sculpture, film and ephemera that share the artist’s thoughts about landscape and its influence on her work. 18-04-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/henry-moore-from-the-arts-council-collection Henry Moore is an important figure for the Arts Council Collection. He was a key advisor to the acquisitions committee during the early 1950s, shaping the Collection by advocating the acquisition of a significant group of post-war British sculpture. 31-03-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor-flashback Flashback is a major series of touring exhibitions from the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre. Taking as its starting point the Collection’s founding principle of supporting emerging artists through the purchase of their work, the series showcases internationally renowned British artists whose works have been acquired by the Collection. 29-03-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/made-2011 MADE highlights the talents of graduates and exciting new designers in the UK and across the world. View the enticing displays of jewellery, applied arts, craft and textiles in the YSP Shop and Centre this winter. 18-03-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/martin-creed Martin Creed creates order where there is none, offering ‘a simple frame through which people can see all the chaos of the world.’ 01-02-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/eva-rothschild Rothschild is ‘interested in the ways of looking that go with concepts of faith and in how things are invested with a power above and beyond their materiality, the transference of spirituality onto objects’. 01-02-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/structure-and-material-claire-barclay-becky-beasley-karla-black Structure & Material explores the work of three significant young artists who each investigate the way we create meaning through form. 01-02-2011 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/peter-randall-page Randall-Page’s work is informed at every turn by a lifelong study of organic form. Nature’s myriad complexities are a source of ongoing fascination to him, from the underlying mathematical principles that drive life and growth to the incredible patterns and forms found in the natural world. 22-12-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/alex-metcalf Yorkshire Sculpture Park has commissioned the artist Alex Metcalf to showcase his ‘Tree Listening’ installation using an oak tree on site. While listening to the headphones that hang from the tree’s branches you can hear water being pulled up from the roots to the leaves through its xylem tubes. 13-12-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/active-ingredient Using sensors connected to mobile phones, Nottingham based collective Active Ingredient visualise and interpret environmental data. A Conversation Between Trees is a new locative artwork that connects trees in different climates and environments. Using sensor technologies to visualise and interpret the sensor data as an interactive installation. A playful conversation between artists, scientists, audience and location exploring woodland ecologies in the UK and Brazil, developed through a series of residency labs. 09-12-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/barry-flanagan A new display on the Formal Terrace celebrates the work of eminent British sculptor Barry Flanagan (1941-2009). Three bronze sculptures – Elephant (1986), Hare and Bell (1988) and Large Left-Handed Drummer (2006) – are fine examples of his style, playful without being whimsical or sentimental. 08-12-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/made-2010 MADE highlights the talents of graduates and exciting new designers in the UK and across the world. 24-11-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/shirin-neshat-soliloquy YSP presents Soliloquy, a film by the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, in the unique context of the Chapel. On loan from Tate, the installation in YSP’s Grade-II* listed Georgian chapel provides a contemplative space for a rare showing of Neshat’s beautiful film, which explores themes of identity, exile and cultural history. With characteristic subtlety, Neshat renders East and West as cultures in exile from each other, but which have distinct parallels and possible points of connection, revealing beauty and difference within each place. 02-11-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/mel-brimfield Mel Brimfield is a London-based artist and curator with a particular interest in Performance Art and who creates playful alternative histories inspired by real artists, artworks and pop culture influences. Recognising that performance art is difficult to document and represent accurately, Brimfield toys with the truth and produces fabricated information, objects and ephemera to support her often comical parallel realities. This project is a result of Brimfield's residency at Camden Arts Centre. 02-11-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/rachel-goodyear This autumn, YSP presents an exhibition of new and recent work by Rachel Goodyear. Tipped as one of Art Review’s Future Greats in 2008 and nominated for the Northern Art Prize in 2009, Goodyear’s compelling cast of characters inhabit a strange and complex world of contradictions, existing somewhere between the macabre and mundane. Exploring themes of fear, desire, vulnerability and isolation, Goodyear invites the viewer into a dark place where human psychologies and animal behaviour collide and merge. 02-11-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/emily-speed-make-shift MAKE SHIFT is the first solo exhibition by Liverpool-based artist Emily Speed, featuring sculpture, installation, drawing and photography. Emily’s work explores the temporary and the transient through reference to architecture and the body. She examines buildings, both literally and metaphorically, as physical shelters and as containers for memory, bound with the history of their occupiers. 02-11-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/rebecca-chesney-diligent-observation Rebecca Chesney explores and reveals changing environments and the impact of human activity, often creating installations that not only capture a sense of wonder in the natural world but also the inescapable struggle between survival and death. Chesney’s project demonstrates YSP’s unique ability to provide a landscape for art, in this case as a laboratory in which to research and develop new work. 02-11-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/me-myself-and-i ‘Me Myself & I’ is a photographic art project that aims to challenge young offenders through creativity. Exploring the self-portrait young people have used the still image to communicate how they see themselves. 27-10-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/my-town In August 2009 six young offenders took part in a three week photography project aimed at providing them with new skills and creative experiences. As part of the project they were trained to operate digital SLR cameras which they used to create three large artworks under the theme of ‘My Town’. 27-10-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/shared-horizon Shared Horizon is a programme supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation which welcomes and encourages young people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants to participate in creative activities. The exhibition presents a display by a group of fifteen young people seeking asylum in Wakefield, Barnsley and Kirklees and is a celebration of a youth photography project started in October 2008. 27-10-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sculpture-trail Access Sculpture Trail is designed to respond to the seasons and time of day, providing a constantly changing environment. Over the years in which the trail has matured, artists have used the designed landscape as a site in which to place other work. 28-09-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/andy-goldsworthy Three stunning outdoor works at Yorkshire Sculpture Park show the breadth and direction of Andy Goldsworthy's recent work: Hanging Trees, Shadow Stone Fold and Outclosure. 26-09-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/masayuki-koorida Masayuki Koorida creates highly finished sculptures in granite. Incredibly smooth and beautifully curved, the sculptures remind the viewer of amoebas, molecules and the aesthetic of Japanese anime. Combining ancient stone and a Japanese aesthetic, the sculptures draw in the viewer and offer themselves as points of rest, meeting and conversation. 26-09-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/casey-orr-bone-fire Originally from Pennsylvania, USA, Casey Orr now lives in Leeds. Based in part on her own experience of leaving her home country, Orr has spent the last eight years exploring the hidden histories, forgotten connections, wild spaces and innumerable untold stories in West Yorkshire. 16-09-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/greyworld-uk Greyworld is an artist collective founded in Paris in the 1990s. Their work challenges the traditional barriers between art and its audiences, creating installations and sculptures that rely on the presence of people to be complete. Greyworld have subsequently worked on several site-specific commissions including works for Tate Modern and the London Stock Exchange. 06-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/william-pye William Pye’s works are often abstract and highly polished in order to best capture the qualities of light and reflection created when water moves over its surface. 06-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/david-nash David Nash worked periodically at Yorkshire Sculpture Park during 1981-2 and many of the sculptures he made have disintegrated naturally, as the artist intended. 06-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/zara-wood-mirror-mime Brighton-based illustrator Zara Wood – aka Woody – brings her enchanting characters and imagined world to Yorkshire Sculpture Park with Mirror Mime, a stunning exhibition featuring twenty new works and exclusive products. Taking inspiration from the estate’s design over 200 years ago as a private pleasure ground, infused with Renaissance imagery and 1920s style, Zara depicts a beguiling world where the boundaries blur between the imagined and the real. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/jaume-plensa-2011 YSP presents an extraordinary body of new and recent work by renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Encouraging tactile and sensory exploration, this vibrant exhibition includes a 50-metre curtain of poetry made of suspended steel letters, large illuminated sculptures in the landscape, and engraved gongs that visitors can strike to fill the gallery with sound. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sol-lewitt Sol LeWitt was a key figure in Minimilism and conceptual art. He developed his practice whilst working as a graphic designer in New York, and later at MoMA, where his colleagues included Robert Ryman and Dan Flavin. MoMA later gave LeWitt his first retrospective exhibition in 1978. This is the only sculpture by LeWitt in a British landscape open to the public, and on a site he chose personally. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/anthony-caro Sir Anthony Caro is a major figure in British abstract sculpture and is widely recognised as one of the greatest living sculptors. He first trained as an engineer at Christ’s College, Cambridge before entering the Royal Navy. After two years in the Navy Caro attended Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) where he studied sculpture for the first time. From there he went on to the Royal Academy Schools and received academic training in sculpture. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/jonathan-borofsky Jonathan Borofsky believes that his role as an artist is to ask questions about human life. He has created many works for public spaces, arguing that our view of art should not be limited to the experience of looking at a picture in a gallery. Borofsky hopes that outdoor sculpture reaches a wider audience than those who would normally view art. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/serge-spitzer Serge Spitzer’s work is concerned with human perception. Through performance art and sculpture in a wide variety of materials, he raises questions about the process of looking, as opposed to seeing. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/tim-paul Tim Paul is of the native American Hesquiat people, descended from the Nuu-cha-nulth territory in Vancouver. Paul created Totem Pole at YSP over a period of ten weeks, using traditional tools and colours. Totem poles are of special significance to west coast native Americans, being used as status symbols as well as to preserve and share native culture through the stories they share. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/isamu-noguchi Isamu Noguchi was a hugely influential sculptor, landscape architect and designer who believed greatly in the integration of art into the everyday experience. Throughout his career he strived to create work that had a social relevance. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/michael-ayrton Michael Ayrton was a painter, sculptor, theatre designer, writer and broadcaster. He was the son of poet Gerald Gould and Labour politician and suffragette Barbara Ayrton-Gould. He studied drawing at the Albertina in Vienna and worked as a successful commercial artist illustrating a number of books including Wyndham Lewis’ The Human Age. His work was influenced by artists Pavel Tchelitchew, Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore and much of the subject matter used in his paintings, and later his sculptures, centres around the popular Greek myths of Knossos. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/grenville-davey Grenville Davey’s work references 20th century art practice and creates a dialogue between various, apparently conflicting, styles. Well is based on the iconic shape of a modern drinks can and employs the pop-art habit of taking ordinary objects and redefining their status as art objects. Davey changes the original mass-produced shape, and refers to the experiments with sheet metals and abstract shapes conducted by the ‘New Generation’ sculptors, such as Anthony Caro and Phillip King, from the 1960s. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/eduardo-paolozzi-2 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi trained at the Slade School of Fine Art. He worked in printmaking and experimented with collage, combining casts of random everyday objects that interested him to make sculpture. Notable works include the patterned walls of Tottenham Court Road tube station in London, the sleeve design for Paul McCartney’s album Red Rose Speedway and the Head of Intervention outside the Design Museum in London. 05-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/mimmo-paladino Mimmo Paladino is a painter, printmaker and sculptor born in Campania, southern Italy, in 1948. He completed his studies at the Liceo Artistico di Benevento in 1968 and during the early seventies concentrated on drawing, greatly influenced by imagery from Classical history, mythology and Christianity. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/mark-di-suvero Mark di Suvero makes sculptures that are like bold, energetic drawings in space. The artist uses industrial machinery to cut, manipulate and join steel beams, making no attempt to hide joints, bolts or other methods of construction. The resulting sculptures are reminiscent of Chinese characters drawn against the horizon; fluid and poetic. For di Suvero, they capture the essence of the people or events that inspire him. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/brian-fell In creating the Ha-Ha Bridge for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Fell has provided an elegant design which also reveals further levels of meaning. By incorporating the word itself into the sides of the bridge he not only refers directly to the ha-ha beneath but also provides an amusing reminder of the original coining of the term derived from the cry of surprise at discovering a boundary. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/alec-finlay Alec Finlay was visiting artist at YSP from 2003 to 2005, and several works remain as a legacy in the landscape. In the Bothy Garden visitors can discover Propagator, a greenhouse containing plant pots from which sprout mesostic poems based on the names of flora at YSP. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/elisabeth-frink Elisabeth Frink was a leading figure in British sculpture. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1949-1953 and was part of the post-war group of British sculptors, which included Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi, who became known as the Geometry of Fear school. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/antony-gormley-one-and-other-(2000) Antony Gormley's work is usually based on casts of his own body. His most famous sculpture is the monumental Angel of the North sited near the A1 in Gateshead. Gormley uses this familiar human form to communicate with as many people as possible. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/nigel-hall Nigel Hall was born in 1943 and studied and tutored at the Royal College of Art, London. Since the late 1980s, Hall has created a significant body of work for the open air and has been commissioned to make sculpture for public spaces by institutions around the world. His work is included in numerous public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles; Louisiana Museum, Denmark; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Tate, London. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/james-turrell-deer-shelter-skyspace In 2007, The Art Fund, the UK's leading art charity, commissioned a permanent Skyspace by James Turrell at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This is the first contemporary commission for The Art Fund and its most significant gift to the nation since The Burghers of Calais by Rodin in 1911. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/winter/hörbelt Since their artistic collaboration began in 1992, Winter/Hörbelt have developed many sculptures that are also structures where people can meet. Basket #7. Oxley Bank is a two-storey steel pavilion on a high ridge of the Longside valley, providing shelter, rest and spectacular views across the landscape. The Bretton Estate was designed to incorporate a series of viewing points and follies, only a few of which remain. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/michael-zwingmann Michael Zwingmann, born in Hanover in 1964, is concerned with making sculptures that interact with their environments. Invasion consists of five cylindrical forms sited on a former football field, which from a distance resemble giant black hay bales. Closer inspection, however, reveals the solidity and potential menace of the material and the work demonstrates a collision between the man-made and natural worlds. 04-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/rod-dickinson-and-tom-mccarthy-greenwich-degree-zero On 15 February 1894 a French anarchist named Martial Bourdin was killed when the bomb he was carrying detonated. The explosion took place on the slope beneath the Royal Observatory in London’s Greenwich Park and it was generally assumed that his intention had been to blow up the Observatory. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/anne-hardy-recent-work Anne Hardy’s photographs depict fictional spaces which have both a magical and naturalistic quality. Constructed within the studio using a range of materials, from disintegrating found objects to natural forms, these spaces uncover the uneasy relationship between the natural and artificial. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/andy-goldsworthy-exhibition The extraordinary exhibition brought together an unprecedented range of work by Andy Goldsworthy, forming the largest and most ambitious project ever curated at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/kenny-hunter This stunning exhibition of new and reworked sculpture, film and text by Glasgow-based artist Kenny Hunter was his largest to date. Featuring works that recall injection-moulded toys, animated cartoons and fashion, his figures, animals and objects from contemporary life were presented as anti-monuments with a still and seamless clarity. While appearing to be mass-produced, they are painstakingly made using traditional sculptural methods. Hunter constantly questions and responds to the world around him, and his remarkable talent enables him to make startling and thought-provoking works. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/60-sixty-years-of-sculpture-in-the-arts-council-collection 2006 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Arts Council Collection. The Arts Council Collection is the largest loan collection of post-war British art in the world. Since 1946, it has acquired some 7,500 works - including over 700 sculptures and installations - for loan to exhibitions and public spaces across the UK and beyond. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/liadin-cooke-overlay-sculpture-and-drawings Newly commissioned and recent sculptures and drawings indicate Liadin Cooke's response to subjects that vary from Jane Eyre to the names of forgotten tulips from the Ottoman empire. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/old-flames-english-florists-tulips Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society is the sole surviving tulip society in the UK, established 170 years ago to cultivate and show the English florists' tulip. The bulbs they grow and show are descended from those imported and cultivated in the mid-17th century. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/gerry-loose-seed-catalogue In 2004 and 2005, poet and land-artist Gerry Loose invited YSP visitors to help compile a seed catalogue by contributing tree seeds. The saplings that have germinated from the seeds are displayed in and outside the gallery in an exhibition to mark the culmination of this project. The Seed Catalogue publication details each seed submitted, with accompanying comments, and is illustrated with photographs by Morven Gregor. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/richard-cramp-point-of-view "My practice relies on the spectator’s perception of the situation – our perception being based upon knowledge gained through previous experiences. Using architectural designs I create starting points to a narrative that can be further explored through the imagination of the spectator. Constructions such as doors, corridors and stairs, give the spectator a recognisable form, which they can then perceive as an entrance or exit to a further, unseen space." 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/simon-whitehead Simon Whitehead is a movement artist whose work explores the area between performance and sculpture. Simon was commissioned in 2004 to create a project that responded to the role and context of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/chatwinmartin-every-third-mouthful The title of this fascinating exhibition, combining art and science, comes from the fact that ‘every third mouthful of food we eat is dependent upon the unmanaged pollination services of bees’. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/eduardo-paolozzi Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) made work that abounds with energy and inventiveness. In both sculpture and printmaking he created a unique style which extends Surrealist ideas and merges them with the ephemera and concerns of everyday culture. Using a wide range of materials, Paolozzi has produced a vast and varied body of work that reflects the changing face of the twentieth century. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/articulated-forms-loretta-braganza Loretta Braganza's new ceramic work combines strong geometric shapes, bold colour and intricate pattern to produce powerful and beautiful objects. Arranged in groups, the artist has created objects which articulate space, each placed to achieve balance or tension, and relating to or relying upon the next. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/lead-astray-new-shared-sculptures-by-bill-woodrow-and-richard-deacon Lead Astray is a group of sculptures made collaboratively by British artists Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon. Glass, wire and Tudor timber were the catalyst for these mysterious and mythical works, with lead acting as a unifying structural and sculptural material. Lead Astray is a New Art Centre touring exhibition with funding from the World Monuments Fund. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/william-turnbull-retrospective-1946-2003 This exhibition surveyed almost 60 years of a remarkable career. As well as bronze, stone and wood sculptures, the selection included paintings and works on paper. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/carlos-garaicoa Carlos Garaicoa is one of Cuba's leading contemporary artists. His work is representative of a generation of artists brought up under Castro's regime, the fall of communism in the Soviet Bloc, and the subsequent global challenges Cuba now faces without support from the USSR. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/breon-ocasey Breon O'Casey (1928–2011) was a painter, printmaker, weaver, jeweller and sculptor, working instinctively in each medium with a deep feeling for materials. He began making sculpture around a decade ago when in his mid-sixties: a development that typifies the range and adaptability of this versatile artist. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/antony-gormley The British sculptor, Antony Gormley, is renowned for his distinctive representations of the human form. Field for the British Isles is one of his most famous works of art. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/angela-woodhouse-and-caroline-broadhead-court Court is a dance performance installation that examines notions of disclosure, intimacy and secrecy within a confined space. The piece centres on the witnessing of events that unfold between two people. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/james-turrell "My desire is to set up a situation to which I can take you and let you see. I am interested in light because of my interest in our spiritual nature and the things that empower us. My art deals with light itself, not as the bearer of revelation, but as revelation itself." 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/alec-finlay-avant-garde-english-landscape Linked by light, words and shared meaning, this body of work suggests the breadth of Finlay's practice, and the approach that he has developed with the landscape, staff and visitors to YSP. The works include olive oil, fruit grafts, black tulips, crossword clues and bird boxes, and a series of word drawings. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/rachel-whiteread For over twenty years Rachel Whiteread has been a leading British artist. She is fascinated by lost form casting, a process in which the original object is destroyed. Her most significant work of this type was the concrete cast interior of an entire house, which was stark, ephemeral, melancholy and beautiful - typical of Whiteread's work. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/jenny-west Locally based artist Jenny West created a site-specific installation in the [RIBA award winning] YSP Centre. Entrance refers to the building as gateway to the park, but also the process of being entranced - being held under a spell of wonderment. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/ronald-rae This exhibition celebrates figurative granite carvings by Scottish sculptor Ronald Rae. Rae is accutely conscious of his ancient heritage and still uses the same tools given to him by a quarry man when he was a boy. 03-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/henry-moore Yorkshire Sculpture Park showcases the largest display of open-air bronzes by the artist in Europe. The selection of sculptures changes this year with new loans from the Henry Moore Foundation. Created between 1955 and 1985, the bronzes represent the peak of the artist’s career when he worked on a monumental scale and particularly for the open air. 01-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/barbara-hepworth Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) was born and raised in Wakefield, and became one of the twentieth century's most eminent international sculptors, shaped by her early years in Yorkshire which she says 'discipled me to the life of form and sculpture'. Hepworth is best known for creating beautiful, flowing and rhythmic sculptures in wood, marble or bronze, often influenced by the organic shapes and contours of nature. 01-08-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/peter-randall-page-exhibition 'Our most intimate understanding of three-dimensional form comes from our own and other people’s bodies. When we look around the world we see the outside of something and wonder what might be inside. I try to tap into this, implying from the modulations of a surface what may be happening inside – a delicate balancing act. The illusion has to be consistent, just like a fictional world. It’s a parallel world. The illusion I’m talking about has to understand itself and have a metaphorical relevance to our world'. Peter Randall-Page 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/stone STONE is an ambitious, three-year project initiated by Edinburgh College of Art to research techniques of working stone (funded by the AHRC). Through extensive travel, filmmaking and working with artists and craftsmen internationally, STONE aims to build up an archive of information that might otherwise be lost. This exhibition presents a selection of the resulting objects, documentary films and photographs. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/the-gathering Bringing back the voices of the artists and selectors involved, the exhibition revealed how and why particular works came be to acquired. The exhibition included highlights from recent years, with painting, sculpture and video by Gilbert and George, Mark Wallinger, Rebecca Warren, Tony Cragg, Peter Doig and Martin Creed, and spectacular installations by John Frankland and David Batchelor. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/rob-ryan Artist Rob Ryan transformed the Visitor Centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with his imaginative paper cuts and screen prints. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/dennis-oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim, a key figure in the US Land Art movement, was an influential international artist who created sculpture, installations, interventions, performances, actions, happenings and photographic works. His work was characterised by a constant shifting of style and ceaseless creative output. Trees (From Alternative Landscape Components), a flamboyant, large-scale work, is on display at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and is the first time that sculptures by Oppenheim have been shown in the UK. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/david-nash-exhibition Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a rich and extensive exhibition of work by David Nash, tracing the evolution of the artist's forty-year career and offering a vivid statement of his life's work. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/richard-william-wheater-them-and-us Richard William Wheater is a Yorkshire based artist who creates performance and installations that explore our relationship with the natural environment. The Upper Space in the Visitor Centre at YSP features Wheater’s 2008 project Them & Us, which took place across six UK locations, including Ferrybridge Power Station, Leicester Botanical Gardens and YSP. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/rebecca-chesney-bee-project Rebecca Chesney continues as visiting artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, working from her boathouse studio in the nature reserve. Working with the FERA Regional Bee Inspector, Rebecca has introduced two new honeybee colonies to the site - these are thriving and providing an excellent source of research and inspiration for Rebecca. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/james-lee-byars St Bartholomew's Chapel was converted into a unique exhibition space in 2009 with The Angel, a spellbinding work by the late American artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997). Built in 1744, YSP opened the chapel to the public for the first time since its deconsecration to showcase The Angel (1989), comprises 125 Murano glass spheres, each one hand-blown using just a single breath, and arranged in curves based on the Japanese Kanji character for ‘angel’. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/nigel-hall-sculpture-and-drawing-1965-2008 This major exhibition presented a new assessment of Hall’s career over a forty year period, during which time he has developed a practice preoccupied with landscape and refined mark-making in space: an exploration of edge and shadow, and of spatial interval. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/brass-art-skyscraping This exhibition comprised new installation, video and drawing developed over two years in discussion with Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Exploring actual and virtual space, the artists use the latest digital technology to position themselves as shadows, ghosted forms, reflections and miniature models. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/helen-escobedo Helen Escobedo's career spanned more than fifty years. An early exponent of installation art, she brought the culture of Mexico and Western Europe together through sculpture that intervened in everyday life. Themes prevalent in her work include waste and the environment, women's role in society, death, memory and the transformative action of light. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sophie-ryder-exhibition Sophie Ryder's association with YSP began in 1986 during her residency, immediately after graduating from the RA Schools. Her work is an exploration of the female psyche and sexuality and frequently references the artist' s own body as it morphs with the powerful energy and form of the hare. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/brandon-ballengee Brandon Ballengée explores the boundaries between art, science and technology by creating artworks from information generated by ecological field trips. Brandon's work includes environmental art and scientific research that encourages discussion about the human effects on the planet. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/isamu-noguchi-modern-master This critically acclaimed exhibition was the first major display in Europe of work by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) and included monumental sculpture never previously shown outside Japan. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/sarah-staton-shucks-sucks-sticks-stacks Sarah Staton is fascinated by construction processes and her work investigates form, function and feeling through a series of architectural and sculptural interventions in which she uses old and new commercial technologies. This exhibition of new work includes stacked sculpture, slotted sculpture and paintings. Wooden ‘topiary’ sculptures will be shown in the open air. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/kwanho-yuh Through her work, Kwanho Yuh encourages communication by combining a range of concepts and possibilities to create situations in which people come into contact with art and each other. 27-07-2010 http:/www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/leo-fitzmaurice-sometimes-the-things-you-touch-come-true Commercial packaging is the starting point for Leo Fitzmaurice’s work. Cutting away all logos and text from packets, bags and boxes, he removes visual ‘noise’ so that we consider what the products once signified and how they have changed. The packages appear like fabulous modernist buildings, and placed together they form a miniature cityscape. For this installation, Fitzmaurice also scavenges the discarded cardboard texts and makes a shantytown on the periphery of the city. 27-07-2010