Open Air

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Displays in the Park are
available to enjoy all
year round.


YSP presents changing special
exhibitions and individual works
throughout the year, so there are
always at least 60 sculptures on
display in the landscape.



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Alec Finlay

Alec Finlay was visiting artist at YSP from 2003 to 2005, and several works remain ...

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Alec Finlay: The Bee Library

The Bee Library comprises a collection of twenty-four bee-related books selected by Finlay that were ...

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Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy first worked at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1983. Since then, he has established ...

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Anthony Caro

Sir Anthony Caro is a major figure in British abstract sculpture and is widely recognised ...

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Antony Gormley: One & Other (2000)

Antony Gormley's work is usually based on casts of his own body. His most famous ...

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Barbara Hepworth

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) was born and raised in Wakefield, and became one of the ...

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Brian Fell

In creating the Ha-Ha Bridge for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Fell has provided an elegant design ...

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David Nash

David Nash worked periodically at Yorkshire Sculpture Park during 1981-2 and many of the sculptures ...

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Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim, a key figure in the US Land Art movement, was an influential international ...

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Eduardo Paolozzi 2

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi trained at the Slade School of Fine Art. He worked in printmaking ...

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Elisabeth Frink

Elisabeth Frink was a leading figure in British sculpture. She studied at the Chelsea School ...

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Frank Dobson

Frank Dobson was a painter and sculptor who studied at the City and Guilds of ...

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Grenville Davey

Grenville Davey’s work references 20th century art practice and creates a dialogue between various, apparently ...

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Greyworld UK

Greyworld is an artist collective founded in Paris in the 1990s. Their work challenges the ...

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Gustavo Ciríaco: Where the Horizon Moves

YSP is delighted to be working with the Live Art Development Agency on DIY10, a ...

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Helen Escobedo

Helen Escobedo's career spanned more than fifty years. An early exponent of installation art, she ...

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Hemali Bhuta: Speed Breakers

“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you ...

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Henry Moore

YSP showcases one of the largest display of open-air bronzes by the artist in Europe. ...

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Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi was a hugely influential sculptor, landscape architect and designer who believed greatly in ...

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James Capper

James Capper is a young British artist who is rapidly establishing an international reputation for ...

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James Turrell - Deer Shelter Skyspace

In 2007, The Art Fund, the UK's leading art charity, commissioned a permanent Skyspace by ...

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Jaume Plensa

In 2011 YSP presented the first major UK exhibition by the leading international sculptor Jaume ...

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Jem Finer

Jem Finer originally trained as a computer scientist and musician before establishing a highly respected ...

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Joan Miró

Though generally less known and critically examined than his painting, Joan Miró came to consider ...

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Jonathan Borofsky

Jonathan Borofsky believes that his role as an artist is to ask questions about human ...

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Joz de Loose

Joz de Loose was born in Belgium in 1925 and attended the Academy of Fine ...

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Kenny Hunter: Bonfires

Kenny Hunter was born in Glasgow in 1962 and has exhibited widely, including a major ...

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Kwanho Yuh

Through her work, Kwanho Yuh encourages communication by combining a range of concepts and possibilities ...

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Lambert Rocour

Lambert Rocour is a Belgian artist who works with traditional materials and methods to create ...

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Leo Fitzmaurice Arcadia

Arcadia consists of four signs in different locations at YSP, with different characteristics, ranging from ...

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Lynn Chadwick: Cloaked Figure IX

COMING SOON Lynn Chadwick was born in London in 1914 and trained as an architectural ...

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

The great Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz makes a welcome return to YSP this autumn with ...

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Marcia Farquhar

Marcia Farquhar works in performance, photography, video and sculpture. As well as presenting her work ...

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Mark di Suvero

Mark di Suvero makes sculptures that are like bold, energetic drawings in space. The artist ...

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Martin Creed

Martin Creed creates order where there is none, offering ‘a simple frame through which people ...

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Masayuki Koorida

Masayuki Koorida creates highly finished sculptures in granite. Incredibly smooth and beautifully curved, the sculptures ...

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Michael Lyons

Michael Lyons lives and works in Yorkshire, where he has maintained a studio for over ...

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Michael Zwingmann

Michael Zwingmann, born in Hanover in 1964, is concerned with making sculptures that interact with ...

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Nigel Hall

Nigel Hall was born in 1943 and studied and tutored at the Royal College of ...

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Richard Long

Long developed his ideas around walking as art throughout the 1970s, making works in increasingly ...

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Sculpture Trail

Access Sculpture Trail is designed to respond to the seasons and time of day, providing ...

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Serge Spitzer

Serge Spitzer’s work is concerned with human perception. Through performance art and sculpture in a ...

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Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt was a key figure in Minimilism and conceptual art. He developed his practice ...

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Sophie Ryder

Sophie Ryder's association with YSP began in 1986 during her residency, immediately after graduating from ...

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Tim Paul

Tim Paul is of the native American Hesquiat people, descended from the Nuu-cha-nulth territory in ...

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Ursula von Rydingsvard

Inspired by everyday environments and objects, Ursula Von Rydingsvard has developed a personal artistic language ...

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Vanessa Grasse, Bettina Neuhaus and Phill Harding

YSP and Yorkshire Dance are working together to offer residencies and artist retreats to dance ...

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William Pye

William Pye’s works are often abstract and highly polished in order to best capture the ...

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Winter/Hörbelt

Since their artistic collaboration began in 1992, Winter/Hörbelt have developed many sculptures that are also ...

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Yinka Shonibare MBE: FABRIC-ATION

Taking place in three of YSP’s indoor galleries and the open air, FABRIC–ATION features over ...

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