Challenging Convention explores four women artists – Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Laura Knight (1877-1970), Gwen John (1876-1939) and Dod Procter (1890-1972) - through their lives and work in a climate of modernism, transformation and increasing emancipation. Each of them was embedded within a web of fellow artists and intellectuals; and made a significant impact on the profile […]
The exhibition explores our relationships between nature and the built environment through Alison Milner's creative use of imagery and materials. Decorative Minimalist features a large-scale, illustrated tile mural entitled Walk in the Park. Designed exclusively for YSP, the mural consists of 160 ceramic tiles that capture the everyday life and soul of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Anne Desmet writes,“I am delighted to have this opportunity to show with a select group of Royal Academician printmakers whose work I esteem highly. As with any group exhibition, it is always intriguing to note the threads that connect the work. Each artist who I have invited to join me in this exhibition is a […]
This major new touring exhibition challenges the male-dominated narratives of post-war British sculpture by presenting a diverse and significant range of ambitious work by women. Breaking the Mould represents the work of over 50 sculptors including: Rana Begum, Lygia Clark, Cathy de Monchaux, Elisabeth Frink, Anthea Hamilton, Holly Hendry, Barbara Hepworth, Mary Kelly, Kim Lim, Cornelia […]
Rebecca Chesney was a YSP Visiting Artist in 2010 and spent time surveying the parkland for species of bumblebees and solitary bees, and all the plants they feed on. After setting up two honey beehives on site, she shadowed the regional bee inspector to learn beekeeping skills and observe the life cycle of the honey bee at […]
Tessa Newcomb and Robina Jack have long, successful careers as artists. Robina Jack’s painted plates and bowls focus on the menagerie that surrounds her: dogs, cats, hens and family history. Tessa Newcomb’s paintings record the garden, the greenhouse, the allotment; she draws you into her work, it feels intimate. The younger artists are Cornelia O’Donovan, […]
Jade Fadojutimi’s large-scale paintings combine abstract and figurative elements in compositions that have intense graphic energy. At the heart of Fadojutimi’s work is an introspective mining of facets of her […]
Solitary Acts, is an exhibition of drawings, collage and animation by Rachel Goodyear. The exhibition explores the agency of the individual, as the artist navigates between divergent modes of existence […]
Sally McKay's etchings resonate with a physical free flowing quality. They are influenced by the drawings she makes of fleeting moments of figures in motion, often dancers in rehearsal and […]
Piumari was one of Marinella Bettineschi's first series to give voice to her ongoing interest and research into alternative languages: the ability to transform and create new ways of thinking with our own breath and further illustrating women’s ability to bring life into the world. Elegant, minimal boxes containing loose feathers, suspended beneath a thin […]
A special showing of the late Chilean artist and activist Lotty Rosenfeld’s 1979-80 video work Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento (A Mile of Crosses on the Asphalt). It is on view in the gallery's microproject space, and commemorates Rosenfeld’s life and work following her death last year.
Ceramics and the natural world are Kaori Tatebayashi's passion. Working in hand formed white stoneware she produces portraits of flowers and plants with amazing precision, not only describing how they […]
For her debut exhibition, conceptual artist Mika Tajima presents new paintings, textile works, and sculptures that focus on psychic and bodily energy under the regulation of techno-capitalism. The exhibition connects the industrial production of energy and computational power to the maintenance of a fully realised productive self. Among other linkages, Regulation renders a relationship between a commercial […]
A Certain Blue Enters Your Soul is Katrin Fridriks’ newest body of work, which focuses on the centrality of blue to our universal histories. Comprised of 14 new major works and accompanied with a text by the writer Sebastian Di Giovanni; this exhibition highlights the significance of blue throughout the world and its history. It is inspired […]
Alchemy is an inaugural exhibition of abstract paintings by, Rosannagh Scarlet Esson. The exhibition brings together Rosannagh's dynamic explorations into the chemistry of paint, metals, pigment and the elements, including brand new works produced at her studio in the past year in lockdown.
Temples, a solo exhibition of new works by Daiga Grantina, whose practice investigates the encounters between materials to propose a synthetic concept of the many relationships that shape our world. Grantina presents a new body of work made predominantly from fabric, wood, paint and plastic.
Internal Objects, is an exhibition of new work by Rachel Whiteread, who employs the formal language of Minimalism to objects’ minor details. She employs existing artifacts and spaces—including domestic objects like chairs and mattresses, interiors of rooms, and even, famously, an entire terraced house—to evoke and explore corporeal presence. Notably, her deft use of negative space can imply […]
An exhibition of her works. Vanessa Gardiner is a landscape painter, who captures scenes of the Cornwall coastline, by taking drawings directly from the location, such as Tintagel Place, Pentaghlion Cliff and many other vantage points. She paints these scenes to bring out their permanency, using layers of paint. Her paintings have a serenity and […]
The Nostalgia for the Infinite, is an exhibition by Jessica Rankin. Featuring new, mixed media paintings and works on paper, marks a significant shift within the artist’s practice. Known for her large-scale embroideries, collages and watercolours that combine celestial maps and landscapes with text, Rankin’s recent works focus more specifically on the language of painting. While […]
What Was My Own features over thirty new highly detailed, meticulous drawings, both large and minute in scale, derived from film stills. A sense of unease and melancholy pervades Marie Harnett’s new […]