What's On Autumn/Winter 2018

YSP AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

YSP Autumn/Winter 2018

‘Perhaps the best day out in British art.’

Mark Hudson, Sunday Telegraph

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is the best place in the UK to experience modern and contemporary sculpture, presenting work by some of the world’s most extraordinary artists in over 500 acres of beautiful, historic parkland and five indoor galleries.

Cover: Sean Scully, Shadow Stack, 2018 © the artist, courtesy private collection Eduardo Paolozzi, Vulcan, 1999. Courtesy the artist’s estate. Photo © Jonty Wilde

This season, see the energetic work of Sean Scully in Longside Gallery and the open air.

Inside Outside is the largest-ever presentation of sculptures by the artist, and also the first exhibition of his sculpture shown alongside paintings in the UK. Continuing in the Underground Gallery and throughout the landscape, Giuseppe Penone’s extraordinary exhibition A Tree in the Wood

traces the artist’s evolving and deeply thoughtful investigation of humanity’s intimate connection to the natural world.

Across YSP Centre, we present the powerful and atmospheric work of Norman Ackroyd, one of Britain’s foremost landscape artists and contemporary printmakers.

In the Country Park, Katrina Palmer’s The Coffin Jump (2018), combines sculpture, sound and performance, to reference the work of the extraordinary all-female First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY).

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Current Artists & Projects

Sean Scully, Blue Note, 2016 © the artist, courtesy Sean Scully

29 September 2018–6 January 2019 Longside Gallery and open air #SeanScully ‘I have spent my life making the melancholic into something irresistible. Because the world has changed around me and become more regretful, my paintings have become more true.’

Sean Scully, Wall Dale Cubed, 2018 (detail) © the artist, courtesy Sean Scully. Photo © Jonty Wilde

Inside Outside is the largest-ever presentation of sculptures and the first exhibition of sculpture shown alongside paintings in the UK by Sean Scully. It continues his exploration of abstraction, landscape, emotion and human experience. The exhibition shows an artist at the height of his powers and includes extraordinary new works.

Born in Dublin in 1945, Scully is considered to be one of the most important abstract painters working today. Longside Gallery presents the eight-metre wide Blue Note (2016) and paintings from the Landline series, in which he conveys a sense of where land meets sky, sea, river and wall. Drawings, prints and photographs illustrate Scully’s working process and the breadth of his practice, as do recent and new sculptures in bronze, steel, aluminium and wood. Adopting Scully’s reduced abstract visual language, these ‘stacked’ sculptures echo the stripes of the paintings.

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Sean Scully: Inside Outside A huge undertaking, the monumental Wall Dale Cubed (2018) in Lower Park is made using over 1,000 tonnes of Yorkshire stone from a local quarry. Referencing ancient dry stone walls, such as those commonly found in Yorkshire and especially the Irish Aran Islands, which Scully has intensively photographed, this sculpture is built in the same way throughout so that ‘when looking at the outside of the block, one can feel the inside without being able to see it’.

In contrast with the solidity of this sculpture, Crate of Air (2018) in the Country Park explores the open spaces of grids and comprises eight geometric steel sections that create enormous frames to the landscape beyond.

Inside Outside is accompanied by a limitededition aquatint print, whose proceeds support YSP’s charitable status. A full colour catalogue with in-situ photographs will be available.

Event – Mindful Moments 6 January 2019 / 09.30–11.00 / £15 Look slowly at this energetic exhibition and make new discoveries through quiet contemplation.

Exhibition generously supported by KEWENIG.

Current Artists & Projects

Giuseppe Penone, Idee di pietra – Olmo, 2008. Private Collection. Courtesy the artist. Photo © Jonty Wilde.

Until 28 April 2019 Underground Gallery and open air #GiuseppePenone ‘He is the David Attenborough of art, an observer of nature who makes work to heighten our awareness of the beauty and power of the natural world.’ Will Gompertz, BBC News Giuseppe Penone, Matrice, 2015. Private Collection. Courtesy the artist. Photo © Jonty Wilde

One of the most eminent artists working today, Giuseppe Penone’s extensive exhibition can be experienced in YSP’s light-filled Underground Gallery and across the historic landscape.

Works drawn from the past five decades of Penone’s career, including many never shown in the UK, trace his evolving and thoughtful consideration of humanity’s intimate relationship with the natural world. His poetic practice addresses themes around the body, nature, time, touch and memory, played out across different materials from stone, acacia thorns and graphite, to thousands of laurel leaves.

Reflecting the importance of trees as a recurring motif throughout Penone’s work, the remarkable Matrice (2015) stands at the heart of the expansive gallery and at 30 metres long, spans almost its entire length. The bisected trunk of a fir tree, it has been placed horizontally and meticulously

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Giuseppe Penone: A Tree in the Wood carved to follow one of its growth rings.

In another space, Propagazione (1998/2018) is a delicate drawing made directly onto three walls, emanating from the artist’s fingerprint.

In the open air, nine bronze sculptures stand in dialogue with the landscape, the tallest of which, L’ombra del bronzo (2002), is an imposing 16 metres high. Further into the Park, Idee di pietra – Olmo (2008) is sited in a clearing near to the 18th-century Upper Lake. Encircled by woodland and native flora, it conveys an air of mystery and quiet intrigue, speaking directly to its surroundings.

A full-colour catalogue with photographs of the exhibition documents this major project. Essays

by Martin Gayford and Clare Lilley share insights into Penone’s unique way of viewing the world.

Event – Penone In Conversation 1 March 2019 / 19.00 / £10, YSP Members £8 Join Penone as he discusses his work, influences and the inspiration behind his YSP exhibition, with YSP’s Director of Programme Clare Lilley.

Exhibition generously supported by Marian Goodman Gallery, Litestructures and the Henry Moore Foundation.

Norman Ackroyd, The Three Sisters, Dingle, Co. Kerry, 2008. Courtesy the artist

Norman Ackroyd: The Furthest Lands 17 November 2018–24 February 2019 YSP Centre #NormanAckroyd

Starting in the extreme north of the Shetland Islands, The Furthest Lands journeys south over 950 miles to the far south-west point of Ireland, through a display of the artist’s intricate aquatint etchings and a small collection of watercolours. Ackroyd’s characteristic muted tones add depth and energy to both familiar and faraway landscapes, including works such as Sun & Rain, Galway Bay (1999), Skellig Sunset (2007) and Off Hermaness, Shetland (2018).

Ackroyd made his first etching over 60 years ago at Leeds College of Art (now named Leeds Arts University). Created in the same period, Storm Over Gildersome (1959) – an atmospheric

Many of the artist’s early etchings were created in the Yorkshire landscape. Extending his documentation of the region, Ackroyd has produced a new limited-edition etching, derived from YSP’s unique landscape following a visit earlier in the year. The exhibition is also accompanied by a full-colour catalogue.

Born in Leeds in 1938, Ackroyd attended Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art in the 1960s. His work is held in many public collections including British Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; National Gallery of Scotland; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and Tate Gallery, London.

Event: Etching Demonstration 16 February 2019 / 10.00–14.00 £40, YSP Members £36 Join Ackroyd as he shows the process behind creating an aquatint etching, using sugar lift or soft ground etching, working from his watercolour drawing books through to a final print.

Norman Ackroyd, Off Hermaness, Shetland, 2018 (detail). Courtesy the artist

The Furthest Lands showcases a vast range of work that explores the western edges of the British Isles by Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA, one of Britain’s foremost landscape artists and contemporary printmakers working today.

etching on steel which depicts the skyline of the Yorkshire village – features within the exhibition and has never been shown before.

Current Artists & Projects

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Katrina Palmer, The Coffin Jump, 2018. Courtesy the artist and 14-18 NOW. Photo Danny Lawson/PA

Katrina Palmer: The Coffin Jump Throughout Autumn/Winter 2018 Country Park #KatrinaPalmer ‘It finds its perfect setting in the green pastures of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, scenic and peaceful, the ideal place to find rest.’

Sandy Di Yu, Art Rabbit Co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, Katrina Palmer’s The Coffin Jump takes as a point of departure the role of an extraordinary group of women in the First World War. Combining sculpture, sound and performance, The Coffin Jump symbolises the new freedoms afforded to women in the war, with specific reference to the all-female First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY).

Founded in 1907, Captain Edward Baker’s conception of the FANY was of women on horseback riding to the rescue of fallen men in the battlefield.

At YSP, visitors will see an intervention in the historic deer park, comprising an inscribed fence above a trench. This negative horizon, a line that cuts across the landscape and descends into a shallow depression, resonates with the trench as a site of mortality but also new beginnings as the woman on horseback cheats death.

Hand-painted on the horse jump, phrases such as ‘woman saves man’ and ‘nothing special happened’ highlight the everyday heroism of women during the First World War, capturing the sense that the FANY were doing their job and getting on with what had to be done in a practical manner. The work will occasionally be activated by a horse and local rider who will gallop across the Park and make the jump.

Palmer lives and works in London, and teaches Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. In her work, she uses writing as a form of sculpture in which the object is elaborated through spatialised narratives and evoked in the reader’s or listener’s imagination.

Co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW and YSP, made possible with Art Fund support. Special thanks to Sir David Verey, The Henry Moore Foundation and The Clothworkers’ Company. With additional support from Melanie Gee, Larissa Joy and thanks to Midge & Simon Palley, Nicholas & Jane Ferguson and Tony McCallum.

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Art Without Walls Explore more than 80 extraordinary works in the open air by world class artists including Ai Weiwei, Barbara Hepworth, James Turrell and Henry Moore, whatever the weather.

James Turrell, Deer Shelter Skyspace, 2006. An Art Fund Commission. Photo Š Jonty Wilde

Events

Photos © Jonty Wilde / David Lindsay / Dustin Smith

Events at YSP range from artist talks and sculpture courses to family workshops and landscape tours.

Here are some of this season’s highlights but you can find out more about all YSP events and book online at ysp.org.uk/events

Tales from the Gallery

Sunrise in the Skyspace

First Sun of the month 10.00–10.45 & 11.15–12.00 £3 (aimed at under 5s)

1 & 8 Dec / 06.15–09.00 Adults £27, children £16

Join spellbinding storytellers for interactive and immersive tales. Move, make and imagine together as a different story unfolds each month, inspired by A Tree in the Wood.

YSP Members: Castle Howard at Christmas 19 Nov / 13.00–16.30 / £25 A wonderful chance for YSP members to visit Castle Howard at the most magical time of year.

See The Twelve Days of Christmas installation and spend time with Curator Dr Christopher Ridgway.

Become a YSP Member at ysp.org.uk/friends

Experience a heightened vision of the sky in James Turrell’s Deer Shelter Skyspace. Followed by breakfast in YSP Restaurant.

Festive Wreath Making 2 & 9 Dec / 10.30–12.30 & 13.00–15.00 / Adults £36, children (age 12+) £31, YSP Members £32.50 Get creative this festive season. Join the team from The Flower Shop in Ossett to make a personalised wreath for yourself or to give as a gift.

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Twilight Walk: Winter Pleasure Grounds

Art and Social for over 55s

Norman Ackroyd: In Conversation

8 Dec / 15.00–17.00 / £9.50 (inc. refreshments and parking)

31 Jan & 28 Feb 14.00–16.00 / £7.50

17 Feb / 11.00–12.00 / £12

Discover the fascinating follies and features of the Park’s historic lakes and woodland in this candlelight tour, as the winter sun sets.

Brass Christmas 15 & 21 Dec / 19.00 / Adults £40, children £32, YSP Members £36 An evening of exceptional art, food and music. Enjoy an after-hours, exclusive viewing of A Tree in the Wood, indulge in a threecourse meal accompanied by a full brass band, followed by a Christmas sing-along.

Join our monthly social with tea and cake, followed by a look around the exhibitions, a walk, or perhaps a drawing or making activity. Whether you come alone or with a friend, we guarantee a warm welcome.

Winter Poetry Walk: Penone’s Writings 2 Feb / 11.00–13.00 / £5 A beautiful winter walk interspersed with poems, contemplations, texts and writings from Giuseppe Penone, shared by performance artist Natalie Bellingham.

Hear Ackroyd discuss his work, inspiration and YSP exhibition, in conversation with long-term friend John Bell from Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk.

Outdoor Sculpture Building: Come Rain, Come Shine 19 Feb / 11.00–12.00 & 13.30–14.30 / £3 (aimed at all ages) Immerse yourself in the imaginative world of sculpture making. Work and play together to build sculptures inspired by artists in the Park.

Information CONTACT US Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton, West Yorkshire WF4 4LG (for SatNav use WF4 4JX) +44 (0)1924 832631, ysp.org.uk OPENING TIMES Until 27 October 2018 Grounds & YSP Centre: 10.00–18.00 Shop, Restaurant & Café: 10.00–17.00 Galleries: 10.00–17.00 Longside Gallery: 11.00–16.00 From 28 October 2018 Grounds, YSP Centre & Shop: 10.00–17.00 Restaurant & Café: 10.00–16.00 Galleries: 10.00–16.00 Longside Gallery: 11.00–15.00 Individual gallery and the café opening dates and times vary, please refer to information on site and online

ADMISSION Admission to the whole of YSP is free.

The only charge is to park your car.

Prices: £3 (up to 1 hour), £6 (1–2 hours), £11 (all day). Payment by cash or card any time during your visit or online for up to 7 days after.

As a charity, all proceeds support YSP.

Sean Scully

YSP FRIENDS Save money on parking with a YSP Friends membership. Find out more at ysp.org.uk/friends DIRECTIONS One mile from M1, junction 38.

Follow the brown heritage signs on the A637 to the YSP Main Entrance.

For SatNav use WF4 4JX. ACCESSIBILITY Free use of mobility scooters – please call ahead to book on +44 (0)1924 832631.

FACILITIES Self-service restaurant and café (both with highchairs), shop, toilets and baby changing.

GROUP & LEARNING VISITS YSP welcomes all kinds of groups and offers coach parking, catering packages, talks and workshops.

Find out more at ysp.org.uk/groups GET CONNECTED You can find YSP on the following sites

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YSP CODE You’re welcome to find out how the sculptures feel, unless requested otherwise, but please don’t sit or climb on them. Feel free to run, jump and roll on the grass but please remember that YSP isn’t your average park. Please no ball games, kite flying, tree climbing, skating or skateboarding. Find out more at ysp.org.uk/visit

Giuseppe Penone

Katrina Palmer

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YSP is an accredited museum and registered charity, number 1067908.

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Information / Shop

YSP Shop Autumn/Winter 2018

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Providing a unique alternative to high street shopping, YSP Shop houses a distinctive selection of products from international artists, contemporary designers and makers.

This season, bringing the outdoors indoors, our natural homeware features wooden wonders from Normann Copenhagen, Cubebot, Forge Creative and Materia Rica, and foliage favourites by Hafod Grange and Sherwood. Other delights include the Pantone Greenery key chain and Wrap’s Ripple White notebooks.

Click and collect available ysp.org.uk/shop

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Become a YSP Friend today and enjoy all kinds of wonderful perks and privileges. Join online today.

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