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2013
James Capper: Divisions
James Capper’s extraordinary sculptures can walk, swim and climb mountains. This exhibition, which showcases Capper’s ...
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MADE
MADE is YSP's programme of bi monthly-changing showcases of contemporary craft and applied arts which ...
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2012
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Jem Finer: Still
This spring, visitors to YSP have the opportunity to experience Still, a beautiful installation by ...
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Sophie Ernst: HOME
YSP presents the first solo exhibition in the UK by Sophie Ernst. HOME is a ...
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Miró: Sculptor
In collaboration with the artist’s foundations and family, YSP is proud to present the first ...
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Anthony Caro: Works from The House Series
YSP is showing a selection of never seen before small bronze sculptures from the House ...
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Florence Peake: MAKE
On 7 April Florence Peake brings her new performance MAKE to YSP, celebrating the working ...
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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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Anish Kapoor: Flashback
Anish Kapoor is one of Britain’s most distinguished artists. He has achieved international acclaim for ...
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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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Sophie Ernst: Reporting to the Landscape
Reporting to the Landscape is an ephemeral intervention within Barbara Hepworth’s The Family of Man ...
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William Turnbull at 90
A new display in the Formal Garden presents the work of William Turnbull (1922–2012), a ...
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Jeremy Deller
For one day only 12.00–18.00 / Free Sacrilege, the life-sized inflatable replica of Stonehenge, created ...
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Caroline Locke: Sound Fountains
Caroline Locke had a residency in the Chapel 12-15 July, when she installed Sound Fountains ...
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Caroline Locke: Sound Inventory
Sound Inventory, shown on the Concourse, involves various sounds from around the world, which Locke ...
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Simon Pope: Memory Marathon
In 2009, Simon Pope walked 26 miles in 12 hours through the London boroughs hosting ...
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Hemali Bhuta
YSP is delighted to be collaborating with Creative India to share the exceptional talent of ...
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Christine Finn: Back to a Land
One of the most popular publications of post-war Britain was a book by archaeologist, Jacquetta ...
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Marking Time: A Century of Drawing in Art Education
This exhibition, at Batley Art Gallery, will present work drawn from the collections of the ...
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Eloise Fornieles
YSP is delighted to be working with the Live Art Development Agency on DIY09, a ...
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Simon Pope: What Cannot Be Turned Aside
Visiting artist in 2010/11, Simon Pope’s practice often involves walking, the act of being together, ...
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Mark Hearld: Birds & Beasts
Birds and Beasts showcases Hearld’s practice which stems from a love of the British countryside, ...
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2011
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Mimmo Paladino
Mimmo Paladino is a painter, printmaker and sculptor born in Campania, southern Italy, in 1948. ...
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Shirin Neshat: Soliloquy
YSP presents Soliloquy, a film by the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, in the unique context ...
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Structure & Material: Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley, Karla Black
Structure & Material explores the work of three significant young artists who each investigate the ...
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Rebecca Chesney: Diligent Observation
Rebecca Chesney explores and reveals changing environments and the impact of human activity, often creating ...
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Mel Brimfield
Mel Brimfield is a London-based artist and curator with a particular interest in Performance Art ...
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Jaume Plensa 2011
YSP presents an extraordinary body of new and recent work by renowned Spanish artist Jaume ...
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Barbara Hepworth & Landscape
To celebrate the launch of The Hepworth Wakefield, YSP has worked with the Hepworth Estate ...
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The Feiweles Trust Final Bursary Exhibition
An exhibition of creative writing and illustration produced by children of all ages from Wakefield ...
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Historic Lakes & Woodland
On 23 July the historic lakes and woodland opened to visitors for the first time ...
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Emily Speed: MAKE SHIFT
MAKE SHIFT is the first solo exhibition by Liverpool-based artist Emily Speed, featuring sculpture, installation, ...
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Henry Moore From The Arts Council Collection
Henry Moore is an important figure for the Arts Council Collection. He was a key ...
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Aeneas Wilder
Anticipation, a deafening clatter, dust, the smell of wood and finally applause – artist Aeneas ...
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Daniel Belasco Rogers
YSP is delighted to be working with the Live Art Development Agency on DIY08, a ...
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Rachel Goodyear
This autumn, YSP presents an exhibition of new and recent work by Rachel Goodyear. Tipped ...
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Austin Wright
Austin Wright had a long and important relationship with YSP. A member of the original ...
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Donna Wilson: Endangered Species
Scottish designer Donna Wilson brings her playful textiles to Yorkshire Sculpture Park this winter, drawing ...
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2010
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The Gathering
Bringing back the voices of the artists and selectors involved, the exhibition revealed how and ...
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Stone
STONE is an ambitious, three-year project initiated by Edinburgh College of Art to research techniques ...
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David Nash Exhibition
Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a rich and extensive exhibition of work by David Nash, tracing ...
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Richard William Wheater Them & Us
Richard William Wheater is a Yorkshire based artist who creates performance and installations that explore ...
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Rebecca Chesney Bee Project
Rebecca Chesney continues as visiting artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, working from her boathouse studio ...
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Rod Dickinson & Tom McCarthy: Greenwich Degree Zero
On 15 February 1894 a French anarchist named Martial Bourdin was killed when the bomb ...
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Alex Metcalf
Yorkshire Sculpture Park has commissioned the artist Alex Metcalf to showcase his ‘Tree Listening’ installation ...
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Me, Myself & I
‘Me Myself & I’ is a photographic art project that aims to challenge young offenders ...
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Active Ingredient
Using sensors connected to mobile phones, Nottingham based collective Active Ingredient visualise and interpret environmental ...
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Casey Orr: Bone Fire
Originally from Pennsylvania, USA, Casey Orr now lives in Leeds. Based in part on her ...
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Anne Hardy: Recent Work
Anne Hardy’s photographs depict fictional spaces which have both a magical and naturalistic quality. Constructed ...
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Zara Wood: Mirror Mime
Brighton-based illustrator Zara Wood – aka Woody – brings her enchanting characters and imagined world ...
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2009
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Shared Horizon
Shared Horizon is a programme supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation which welcomes and encourages ...
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Peter Randall-Page Exhibition
'Our most intimate understanding of three-dimensional form comes from our own and other people’s bodies. ...
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My Town
In August 2009 six young offenders took part in a three week photography project aimed ...
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James Lee Byars
St Bartholomew's Chapel was converted into a unique exhibition space in 2009 with The Angel, ...
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Rob Ryan
Artist Rob Ryan transformed the Visitor Centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with his imaginative paper ...
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2008
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Nigel Hall: Sculpture & Drawing 1965 - 2008
This major exhibition presented a new assessment of Hall’s career over a forty year period, ...
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Brass Art: Skyscraping
This exhibition comprised new installation, video and drawing developed over two years in discussion with ...
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Sophie Ryder Exhibition
Sophie Ryder's association with YSP began in 1986 during her residency, immediately after graduating from ...
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Isamu Noguchi: Modern Master
This critically acclaimed exhibition was the first major display in Europe of work by Isamu ...
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Sarah Staton: Shucks, Sucks, Sticks, Stacks
Sarah Staton is fascinated by construction processes and her work investigates form, function and feeling ...
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2007
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 ...
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Andy Goldsworthy Exhibition
The extraordinary exhibition brought together an unprecedented range of work by Andy Goldsworthy, forming the ...
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2006
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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 ...
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Liadin Cooke - Overlay: Sculpture and Drawings
Newly commissioned and recent sculptures and drawings indicate Liadin Cooke's response to subjects that vary ...
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Old Flames: English Florists' Tulips
Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society is the sole surviving tulip society in the ...
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Gerry Loose Seed Catalogue
In 2004 and 2005, poet and land-artist Gerry Loose invited YSP visitors to help compile ...
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Richard Cramp: Point of View
"My practice relies on the spectator’s perception of the situation – our perception being based ...
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Kenny Hunter
This stunning exhibition of new and reworked sculpture, film and text by Glasgow-based artist Kenny ...
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Simon Whitehead
Simon Whitehead is a movement artist whose work explores the area between performance and sculpture. ...
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Chatwin:Martin 'Every third mouthful...'
The title of this fascinating exhibition, combining art and science, comes from the fact that ...
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) made work that abounds with energy and inventiveness. In both sculpture and ...
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2005
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Articulated Forms: Loretta Braganza
Loretta Braganza's new ceramic work combines strong geometric shapes, bold colour and intricate pattern to ...
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Lead Astray: New Shared Sculptures by Bill Woodrow & Richard Deacon
Lead Astray is a group of sculptures made collaboratively by British artists Bill Woodrow and ...
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William Turnbull Retrospective 1946-2003
This exhibition surveyed almost 60 years of a remarkable career. As well as bronze, stone ...
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Carlos Garaicoa
Carlos Garaicoa is one of Cuba's leading contemporary artists. His work is representative of a ...
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Breon O'Casey
Breon O'Casey (1928–2011) was a painter, printmaker, weaver, jeweller and sculptor, working instinctively in each ...
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Antony Gormley
The British sculptor, Antony Gormley, is renowned for his distinctive representations of the human form. ...
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James Turrell
"My desire is to set up a situation to which I can take you and ...
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2004
Alec Finlay: Avant-Garde English Landscape
Linked by light, words and shared meaning, this body of work suggests the breadth of ...
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2003
Jenny West
Locally based artist Jenny West created a site-specific installation in the [RIBA award winning] YSP ...
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2002
Ronald Rae
This exhibition celebrates figurative granite carvings by Scottish sculptor Ronald Rae. Rae is accutely conscious ...
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1995
Magdalena Abakanowicz Exhibition
In 1995 YSP presented the first UK major exhibition of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz since ...
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1994
Henry Moore in the Bretton Country Park
This exhibition presented a rare opportunity to see a significant group of sculptures by Henry ...
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1987
Henry Moore & Landscape
YSP celebrated its first decade with the largest ever exhibition of Henry Moore sculptures. The ...
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