Family Activity Leaflet: Ursula von Rydingsvard

Yorkshire Sculpture Park FAMILY ACTIVITIES Ursula von Rydingsvard

Ursula von Rydingsvard was born in Germany during the Second World War. Her father was Ukrainian and her mother was Polish. Ursula was one of seven children. The whole family immigrated to the USA in 1950 just before Christmas. Ursula von Rydingsvard now lives in New York City and works in a large studio in Brooklyn.

Ursula von Rydingsvard uses cedar wood as it is soft and she can work into it easily.

What can you smell when you close your eyes?

Can you imagine these sculptures are made from different materials?

What would you use?

Why?

Find the sculpture mama build me a fence.

Design your own fence, without taking your pencil off the paper.

Do your lines become twisted and tangled?

What would the fence be for?

Why do we have fences?

Design your own pattern for this collar.

How many different types of marks can you make?

Choose a sculpture that interests you.

Use three words to describe it; try to find really unusual words.

Find the sculpture Right Arm Bowl. Make the shape of this sculpture using your body to recreate it. Can you make other sculptural shapes with your body? Try and make a body sculpture with your family or friends to create an object you use every day.

Do you know anyone who has lived in a different country?

Which country do you think they would call home?

What do they remember from the country they used to live in?

Can they remember the landscape or a particular food?

Maybe they brought something with them as a reminder. What object would you take if you went to live in a different country? Why?

Don’t forget to look for other Ursula von Rydingsvard sculptures at YSP: Damski Czepek in Lower Park and Bowl with Mounds in Camellia House.

Experience the two sculptures using your hands, eyes and nose.

The artist wanted to introduce light into Damski Czepek.

Has she achieved this?

H ow?

Ursula von Rydingsvard 05.04.14–04.01.15 #ursulaysp Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG ysp.co.uk

Supported by

Charina Endowment Fund; The Camilli Foundation; Roberta Denning; Agnes Gund; Joyce Linde; Morton and Estelle Sosland; Susan and John Diekman; Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe; The Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art; Pat Gantz and Family; George Krupp; Joel and Sherry Mallin; Brian Hopkinson; Ann and Herbert Burger

All images courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong.

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