Yorkshire Sculpture Park

On Wednesday, we went to visit Wakefield to go to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Since opening the park to the public in 1977, YSP has welcomed 400,000 visitors every year. They exhibit modern and contemporary sculptures made by various different artists; they include work that is a permanent piece in the park and also temporary work to showcase other artists work.

Bob and Roberta Smith: Art For All

This celebrates the 30th anniversary of YSP's National Arts Education Archive.

Jonathan Borofsky: Molecule Man 1+1+1

Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man

Sophie Ryder

Her work includes human, animal and mythological figures. She forms parts of the body to combine the attitudes and instincts of each. Anthropomorphic characters are used both to explore the human condition an as a metaphor for her own feelings. She is renowned for using animal imagery to explore the complexities of emotions.

Poppies: Wave
Thousands of poppies are handmade out of ceramic. You can see that the poppies are pouring from above to the ground below and was created by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war during 

Anthony Caro: Promenade

Rob Ryan exhibition

Having been told that we were going to YSP, I weren't excited at all as I don't care much about sculptures. During the day, as we went around the park, I kept finding more and more pieces of artwork and like the Poppy sculpture, I began to appreciate sculptures more as every one are handmade to make it personal. 

Personally, I found the Rob Ryan exhibition the most inspiring and interesting as I had studied him during my A-Levels. I think his work is so unique in the way that it shows emotion though the delicacy and intricacy of his cut out work. I really like how much detail he puts in every one of his pieces of artwork because it makes it look so sweet and with full of emotion. Having creating my own rendition of his artwork, I can understand how difficult it is to create something so fragile and frail, therefore has made me appreciate his work even more.