Yorkshire Sculpture Park Trip

On Sunday, a group of ten of us visited this amazing outdoor sculpture site in Wakefield. Was a fun trip and made me want to go back again soon to see everything we didn't have time to see (it's a big place).

After a slight detour in the mini bus (part of a special tour of Sheffield!), we arrived at the beautiful 500 acre site and were spoilt for choice as to what to look at first!

We were all keen to see Andy Goldsworthy's work and so started off in the Underground gallery, where some of the most impressive pieces were sited indoors. We encountered a series of installations: logs cunningly intertwined into a giant egg shape...leaf stalks and thorns woven together so skillfully to create a suspended curtain... a dark, damp igloo-like room made from wood...stone stacked domes..a room of mud-cracked walls containing human hair...quite an experience and really awe-inspiring what this man can create with nature! Later we saw more art made from deer blood and sheep dung...luckily saved that til after lunch!

At lunch as we enjoyed a picnic, we created our own Goldsworthy-inspiredpiece of environmental art from found twigs and flowers. We were also inspired by a small child exploring the sculptures by climbing through them and several of us tried to see how small a hole we could fit through- passing through the sculptures was a fun, new experience and way of engaging with the art work!

I loved seeing such a range of sculptures in the outdoor setting and the way the work engages with the natural environment.

Here are some photos...if anyone else has got any from the trip, you could email them to me or post them here on the blog if you can.

What were your favourite parts of the day? Which sculpture did you like/ not like?


See www.ysp.org.uk for more info about Yorkshire Sculpture Park and here is an article and video about Andy Goldsworthy's work http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2031027,00.html