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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]
The biology collection contains 200,000 specimens, including both fauna and flora, with the majority of the collection made up of insects. There are two specimens of the extinct great auk, [18] an almost complete skeleton of an extinct moa, passenger pigeons, [19] and a large collection of Quaternary (c.125,000 years ago) specimens from the Yorkshire region including the remains of elephants ...
Leeds Bradford Airport reopened its runway at about 14:00 after it had been closed for about six hours. ... In West Yorkshire, the Piece Hall in Halifax closed, as did Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Rae's sculpture exhibitions [2] include Regent's Park, London (1999–2002), the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2002-04), and Holyrood Park, Edinburgh (2006-08). Rae is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. In addition to his work in sculpting, Rae has created a vast body of graphic fine art, small sculptures, and 'found objects'.
In 1960, the gardens and the Yorkshire Museum were given in trust to the City of York Council and they became a public park. Since 2002, they have been managed by the York Museums Trust, along with York Castle Museum and York Art Gallery. The gardens are maintained by the Askham Bryan College of Agriculture. [5] [6]
In 1983 Kitchin's one-man exhibition, titled in his name, opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. [4] Inclined Impasse, Roy Kitchin, 1982. In the early eighties Kitchin wished to find a permanent site for his sculptures. He wanted to know how the landscape and the sculpture's 'dialogue' would be affected by permanence.
Some of their works are available for public viewing at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. [151] There are several art galleries in Yorkshire featuring extensive collections, such as Ferens Art Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Millennium Galleries and York Art Gallery.