Tag: Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Jonathan Baldock: Touch Wood

In a series of newly commissioned works, Baldock immerses us in a mix of ancient and modern forms, inspired by myths and rituals spanning harvest festivals, folk art, medieval cathedral carvings and queer graffiti
Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth

Houses squashed by bananas, handbags on legs, cartoon-like cars – Wurm’s sculptures are surreal and humorous, but with an underlying seriousness that mocks consumer culture and questions our perceptions of everyday objects
Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018

This major show, spanning six decades of Indiana’s career, makes clear that there was far more to his work than the four-letter sculpture for which he is primarily remembered
Annie Morris – interview: ‘All my work revolves around experiences I’ve had. A lot is based on things I’m not comfortable talking about’

Morris, who has three new shows, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Frieze Sculpture and Timothy Taylor in London, discusses how personal tragedy and childhood memories feed into her work
Rachel Kneebone – interview: ‘My work is concerned with our visceral life, with movement and the experience of inhabiting the body’

Sculptor Rachel Kneebone talks about her forthcoming exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the new direction her work is taking
Saad Qureshi: Something About Paradise

Step into a fantastical dreamworld as you explore Qureshi’s mindscape inspired by stories British people have told him of how they imagine paradise
Holly Hendry – interview: ‘I dabble between formalism and representation’

Just three years after leaving art school, Hendry has already had several high-profile shows. She talks about her love of problem-solving and manipulating materials and discusses her new exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park opens Weston visitor centre

A visitor pavilion by Feilden Fowles opens up an overlooked area of the 500-acre sculpture park. The Weston responds to its setting with a sensitive design – part sculpture, part architecture – utterly in tune with the landscape
Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time

Using 2,000 balls of thread, Chiharu Shiota’s installation of white woollen webbing in the chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park drifts up from floor to ceiling, twisting around and drawing you in to the spirit of the place
Niki de Saint Phalle: Je Suis Une Vache Suisse

Despite traumatic experiences early on in life, Niki de Saint Phalle produced vivacious, playful and exuberant works, proof that creativity can emerge from destruction