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The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. It shows work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. The sculpture park occupies the 500-acre (200-hectare) parkland of Bretton Hall.
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As dogs became more domesticated, they were shown as companion animals, often painted sitting on a lady's lap. Throughout art history, mainly in Western art, there is an overwhelming presence of dogs as status symbols and pets in painting. The dogs were brought to houses and were allowed to live in the house.
"Yorkshire Sculpture Park". Kirklees Council. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011; Sculpture Series Heads - Terracotta Portraits of Contributors to British Sculpture (2013) Hall, P., Scott, M. & Pheby, H. ISBN 978 0 9558675 1 4, pages 22/23; Peter Murray - Royal Academy talk with Nigel Hall RA, 2011
In the summer of 2021 the Thirsk Hall Sculpture Park, set in the grounds, was opened to the public. It has showcased the work of both up and coming and established artists, including Michael Lyons and Zak Ové. [2] [4] [5] [6] The park had 3,000 visitors in its first year. [7] In 2023 the park featured the work of stone sculptor Emily Young. [8]
Clare Lilley is a British art curator and Director at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. [1] She previously held the post of Director of Programme. [2] [3]Lilley graduated with a degree in the History of Art from Manchester University.
Michael Lyons by Peter Murray, David Sweet, Michael Lyons, [exhibition catalogue], Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1998) Close encounters of the three-dimensional kind: an experiential biography of Michael Lyons by Judith LeGrove, Green Bronze IV (1980), unpublished (winner of the 2010 Henry Moore Institute MA essay prize)
Mute 2 by Austin Wright at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Ring by Austin Wright at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.. Wright's early success was fairly rapid. After exhibiting in “Modern Art in Yorkshire” in 1955 alongside Eduardo Paolozzi, Kenneth Armitage and Elisabeth Frink, he was invited by The British Council to show in “Younger British Sculptors”, an exhibition that toured Sweden in 1956.