Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Here are a few more photos from my early October visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park. As well as the indoor galleries, there is a huge estate to explore, its rolling grasslands kept cropped by sheep, who are not in the least interested in the numerous Henry Moore sculptures on permanent display. There are many works by other noted artists like Barbara Hepworth, Ai Weiwei, Andy Goldsworthy, Anthony Gormley, David Nash, Jaume Plensa and James Turrell - in fact, too many to list. It's quite a feast and a very pleasurable journey, meandering around and seeing what you come across.  The estate stretches as far as the eye can see, right up to the Longside Gallery which you can perhaps just make out on the hill in the far background of the photo above. There's far too much to see in a day, added to which it is easy to get diverted by nature's beauty: the trees, lakes and wildlife around. I'm glad I live reasonably near and can keep going back.

There was an exhibition, 'Inside Outside' by the Irish artist Sean Scully, featuring 'Crate of Air' made out of Corten steel and an immense work called 'Wall Dale Cubed', three huge blocks of stones that reference Yorkshire's dry stone walls and other ancient structures in Mexico, Egypt and the Irish Aran Islands.