Yorkshire sculpture park

Celebrating 40 years of Britain's first sculpture park

An art trip up north to Wakefield, home of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Hepworth Wakefield, two of the UK’s finest art institutions.

Barbara Hepworth - Yorkshire Sculpture park

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield was the first sculpture park in the UK and the largest in all of Europe. Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth are well-represented.

KAWS Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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I went to Yorkshire Sculpture Park again yesterday. It's half term, so it was a great opportunity to immerse my son Freddy in a bit of culture. Also, when I went last week the Jaume Plensa exhibit wasn't fully open to the public, so this was my first chance to see the work inside the Underground Gallery. 50 metre curtain of poetry made of suspended steel letters Jaume Plensa - Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2011 These are breathtaking - and the pictures do not show their ethereal quality There are…

Sophie Ryder has been sculpting hares (not rabbits!) throughout her career, but the Lady-Hare, a stylised hare's head on a human body apparently modelled on Ryder's own, developed in 1996. It represents a feminine counterpart of the Classical Minotaur, itself emphasised as a symbol of masculinity by Picasso. The association of the hare with fertility and femininity is well-established in Celtic mythology, but even purely as a visual device, the hybrid form just works – even the ears vaguely…

Yesterday was a beautiful day and I travelled to Yorkshire Sculpture Park to photograph the UK’s largest exhibition of works by Yinka Shonibare MBE. The exhibition features 30 works made between 2002 and 2013, many of which are being shown in the UK for the first time, Also in the collection are two 6 metre …