Past Years

Find out about exhibitions and artist projects produced by YSP over the last few years.

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2012

Jem Finer: Still

This spring, visitors to YSP have the opportunity to experience Still, a beautiful installation by ...

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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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2011

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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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Eva Rothschild

Rothschild is ‘interested in the ways of looking that go with concepts of faith and ...

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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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MADE 2011

MADE highlights the talents of graduates and exciting new designers in the UK and across ...

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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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MADE 2010

MADE highlights the talents of graduates and exciting new designers in the UK and across ...

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Peter Randall-Page

Randall-Page’s work is informed at every turn by a lifelong study of organic form. Nature’s ...

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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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Kwanho Yuh

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

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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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