...On a windswept hillside midway between Wakefield, Huddersfield and Barnsley, Britain’s first and finest sculpture park is staging a spectacular birthday party. It’s forty years since Yorkshire Sculpture Park was founded, by a pioneering art teacher called Peter Murray. It’s since become one of the most influential artistic ventures in the country..
.“Ever since I was a student, I was very interested in the idea of making art accessible,” says Murray, over coffee in YSP’s sleek café. “I liked the idea of putting the arts in alternative spaces and places.”...
.“Ever since I was a student, I was very interested in the idea of making art accessible,” says Murray, over coffee in YSP’s sleek café. “I liked the idea of putting the arts in alternative spaces and places.”...
“If you have an opportunity to walk around a sculpture, it’s a very different experience to walking past a piece of sculpture in a gallery.”
Discover how Yorkshire Sculpture Park came about in this BBC Artsarticle.
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