Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a new display of five sculptures by Masayuki Koorida, who creates highly polished sculptures in granite. This is the first opportunity in the UK to view the work of this highly accomplished and important Japanese artist. Incredibly smooth and with perfect curves, the sculptures appear both natural and artificial, influenced by biological forms such as molecules and amoebas as well as the visual style of Japanese animation. 

Form Twist (2008) Growth (2007) Kids (2009) and two Flower works (2009) have recently been on display as part of Blickachsen 7, an annual outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture in Bad Homburg, Germany. They are on loan to YSP courtesy of Masayuki Koorida and Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany. Masayuki Koorida was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1960 and studied at Musashino Art University (Tokyo), between 1979 and 1983. He has exhibited internationally and lived in The Netherlands in 1999 before moving to Taiwan where he was the Artistic Director of the Rose Garden Park. Since 2006 he has been the Director of the Shanghai Sculpture Park, where he continues to develop his own practice and create new work.