Yorkshire Sculpture Park Unveils New Works in the Landscape

As the seasons change, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) refreshes the displays of art outdoors including new sculptures in the landscape and the return of Antony Gormley’s One and Other (2000).

New works:
Vanessa da Silva, Muamba Grove #3 and Muamba Grove #4, 2019
Antony Gormley, One and Other, 2000
Peter Randall-Page, Mind Walk, 2022
Ro Robertson, Stone (Butch), 2021

Relocated works:
Tom Friedman, Hazmat Love, 2016
Leiko Ikemura, Usagi Kannon II, 2013/2018
Kalliopi Lemos, Bag of Aspirations, 2019

YSP is delighted to announce the acquisition of Ro Robertson’s Stone (Butch) (2021) into its permanent collection. The sculpture reclaims a space in the landscape for queer and butch identities, which have historically been deemed ‘against nature’. Stone (Butch) prompts us to question who is depicted and commemorated in art. Installed near The Family of Man (1970) by Barbara Hepworth, Stone (Butch) reflects the landscape and artistic heritage of YSP.

YSP welcomes the return of Antony Gormley’s well-loved sculpture One and Other (2000). Gormley describes his work as an inquiry into the body ‘as a place of memory and transformation’, and like many of his works, One and Other is based on a cast of his own body. In its new location nestled in the local wildlife site, One and Other invites an awareness of the sculpture’s surroundings, as well as a contemplation of humanity’s place in the universe.

Muamba Grove #3 and Muamba Grove #4 (2019) by Brazilian artist Vanessa da Silva are now on display in Lower Park for the first time at YSP. Focusing on identity, displacement and otherness, da Silva’s sculpture and performance practice is rooted in her experiences as a Latin American immigrant in Europe.The artist identifies each of the sculptures as ‘unrooted bodies’, genderless, neither human nor part of nature. Her works are hybrids that are in a constant state of flux, metamorphosing into something still unknown.

YSP is delighted to announce the extension of the headline exhibition Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958–2018, which will now run through to 16 April 2023. The exhibition is the first of its kind in the UK and presents a substantial body of work that explores the artist’s life as a gay person navigating the ‘American Dream’, reflecting themes that remain relevant today.