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The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an open-air art organisation, showing
work by UK and international artists, including notably Henry Moore and Barbara
Hepworth. The Park is situated in the grounds of an 18th century estate (Bretton
Hall) which was a family home until mid 20th century when it became a College of
Further and Higher Education. Various follies, landscape features and
architectural structures dating from the 18th century can still be seen in the
Park including a deer park and deer shelter. This has been converted by American
sculptor James Turrell into an installation. Also there is an ice house, a
Camelia house. Artists working at YSP often take their inspiration from either
the architectural, historical or natural environment the most being notably Andy
Goldsworthy in 2007.
Since the 1990s YSP has also made use of a variety of indoor exhibition
spaces, initially a Bothy Gallery - in the curved Bothy Wall- and a temporary
tent-like structure called the Pavilion Gallery. YSP has added a major
underground gallery space in the Bothy garden, and exhibition spaces at Longside
(the hillside facing the original park). Its programme consists of contemporary
and Modern sculpture (from Rodin and Bourdelle through to younger living
artists). British sculpture is particularly well represented in the past
exhibition programme and semi-permanent displays. Many of the British sculptors
famous in the 1950s and 1960s, but later forgotten, have been the subject of
solo exhibitions at YSP including Lynn Chadwick, Austin Wright, Philip King,
Eduardo Paolozzi, Kenneth Armitage. Exhibitions tend to be monographic - rather
than group or thematic.
Sculptures by Sophie Ryder
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