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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.
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]
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; Murray, Peter; Clare Lilley (April 2000). "Joanna Mowbray and Yorkshire Sculpture Park: a working relationship". EICH Gallery
Yorkshire Sculpture Park entrance. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, consists of 200 acres (0.80 km 2) of landscaped ground with a large collection of sculptures including some by Elisabeth Frink, some by Auguste Rodin, and others by local sculptors Barbara Hepworth, born in Wakefield, and Henry Moore, born in Castleford. [40]
This list of museums in West Yorkshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
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of the three-dimensional kind: an experiential biography of Michael Lyons by Judith LeGrove, Green Bronze IV (1980), unpublished (winner of the 2010 Henry Moore Institute MA essay prize)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.