Roger Hiorns temporarily transforms the familiar YSP landscape with clouds of foam in this interactive artwork. At certain times of day, a compressor will generate vast clusters of bubbles that will blow across the landscape and be shaped by the wind, blurring boundaries between the parkland and the...More
Arrivals + Departures is an interactive installation that explores life and love through our experiences of birth and death, two emotive moments that are common to us all no matter who we are, and which can evoke huge depths of feeling. Using the instantly recognisable form of a station or airport a...More
Jason Wilsher-Mills uses iPads and Wacom tablets to create bright, celebratory and poignant works exploring themes of disability. His digital drawings are then translated into huge inflatable works or human-sized fibreglass sculptures. Colourful and bold, his works are acts of activism that are visu...More
Rural environments are frequently seen as existing in opposition to queerness, with urban spaces typically being more accepting places for LGBTQIA+ people. This exhibition looks at ways in which queer artists are re-connecting with the landscapes around them by mapping and navigating their queer ide...More
Ro Robertson's Stone (Butch) (2021) is part of a body of works exploring the terrain of the queer body in the landscape and was created by plaster casting directly in crevices in natural rock formations at Godrevy Point (St Ives Bay, Cornwall). This "sculptural void" makes physical a negative space...More
The feelings that arise from being forced to conceal your sexuality are a theme of McKenzie's audio work Shame Chorus (2017). The artist refers to American writer Brené Brown who says that shame: "needs three things to grow... secrecy, silence and judgment". These ideas of shame and secrecy resonate...More
The Summer of Love is a series of events and projects taking place across Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) that celebrates human relationships, understanding and love between people. Taking inspiration from the current exhibition Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958–2018, the programme runs from the summer...More
Junction 32 Yorkshire Shopping Outlet has partnered with a young local artist to create a vibrant new art installation. Yorkshire-based-artist, Lucy Watson, has transformed an empty shop window into a contemporary and engaging display for shoppers to admire when visiting the outlet. The unique piece...More
Celebrating the Yorkshire landscape is at the heart of a new exhibition by artist and designer Janine Burrows at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Table to Tide: A Yorkshire Conversationbrings together a new body of work by Yorkshire-based designer, painter and illustrator Janine Burrows. In this exhi...More
Artist Bubu Ogisi presents a new exhibition exploring the spirituality of masquerading. Drawing on the ritual use of adornments in various sacred African institutions, including the Nwantantay of Burkina Faso, the Bedu of Ivory Coast and the Ogbodo Enyi of Nigeria, Ogisi’s works respond to complex s...More
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is pleased to announce the first major UK exhibition of sculpture by American artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018). Spanning 60 years of the artist’s career, the exhibition will include a dynamic display of outdoor and indoor sculpture, along with significant paintings a...More
To celebrate the launch of Norman Ackroyd’s newest publication, An Irish Notebook, Yorkshire Sculpture Park will be showcasing a group of this astonishing artist’s most recent etchings, all of which have been created between 2019-2022. Norman Ackroyd is one of Britain’s foremost landscape artists an...More
Final two days of exhibition, Reflections on Landscape, at the Manor House Ilkley.LS29 9DT Fantastic gallery space in 16th century Manor House which is also the local museum. Extremely well received show of Brian's recent paintings. Saturday and Sunday 11.00 to 4.00pm
Vibrant colour and bold text combine in Lakwena’s joyful and gently subversive work. Her paintings, murals and installations often reference everyday shared experiences and popular culture, such as songs, fashion and basketball. Bringing messages of hopeful possibility, Lakwena speaks to points of c...More
Drawing on her love of animals, Montgomerie creates expressive anthropomorphic creatures that convey a range of magnified childlike emotions. Cats, lambs, foxes, and dogs often feature in her collections, each one covered in layer upon layer of retro fabric, strategically placed to replicate the dif...More