Joe Hill Appointed Director and CEO of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
21 January 2026 • Mark Westall
Hill will take up the role on 14th April, leading the organisation into a pivotal period ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2027.
Tag: Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Clare Lilley has left YSP
22 July 2025 • Mark Westall
Clare Lilley, Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) has stepped down to pursue global opportunities
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see Outside London in the Autumn
24 August 2024 • Tabish Khan
Deities, clouds, buried figures, Japanese prints and art in nature.
Erwin Wurm’s first UK museum exhibition opens at YSP
20 June 2023 • Mark Westall
Who needs Augmented Reality when you have Wurm Reality (W.R) the reality dreamt-up, created by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm? Now exhibiting at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with Trap of the Truth – his first UK museum exhibition.
Erwin Wurm gets first UK Museum exhibition at YSP
30 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park to present Trap of the Truth – the first UK museum exhibition by renowned Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see this Winter
26 November 2022 • Tabish Khan
Carnival, cockroaches, sharks, numbers and shipwrecks.
YSP announces the first UK museum display of work by artist Daniel Arsham.
4 August 2022 • Mark Westall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) announces the first UK museum display of work by the highly acclaimed North American artist Daniel… Read More
Review: Robert Indiana at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
10 March 2022 • Tabish Khan
More than just love and numbers.
Clare Lilley appointed as new Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
19 January 2022 • Mark Westall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) has announced that Clare Lilley has been appointed to take up the role of Director in… Read More
Review: Limbs, decay, bodies and heels at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
14 July 2021 • Tabish Khan
A triple treat of exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Hardeep Sahota: Bhangra Lexicon
6 January 2021 • Mark Westall
Bhangra Lexicon is the world’s first ‘visual dictionary’ of movements found within this beautiful artform, carefully compiled by World Bhangra… Read More
The Top 5 Art Christmas Gifts
13 December 2020 • Tabish Khan
Beginning a week-long look at art gifts for Christmas on FAD magazine Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic has picked 5 Christmas gifts – no need to blow the budget and great gifts for even those who don’t celebrate Christmas.
5 places you can see Art outdoors during lockdown.
20 November 2020 • Mark Westall
5 places you can see Art outdoors during lockdown
Joana Vasconcelos: Beyond is her largest exhibition to date in the UK
9 March 2020 • Mark Westall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents a major exhibition of over 25 works by leading conceptual Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. One of the most prominent female visual art practitioners in the world, this is Vasconcelos’ largest exhibition ever held in the UK and YSP’s headline presentation for 2020 in a year of programming dominated by women artists.
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945
24 February 2020 • Mark Westall
Breaking the Mould is the first extensive survey of post-war British sculpture by artists identifying as women in a public institution.
Invisible Flock to premier major Immersive Rainforest Installation for Brighton Festival.
20 February 2020 • Mark Westall
Invisible Flock to create Immersive 3D audiovisual recreation of rainforest at Brighton Festival + new studios at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents the first kinetic sculpture by artist Holly Hendry featuring a synthetic skin-like band
26 September 2019 • Mark Westall
Artist Holly Hendry explores themes of decay, the body, and the use and re-use of materials in a new exhibition, The Dump is Full of Images, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) and Selfridges present a new commission by German artist Marco Miehling for the London store’s Art Block
26 February 2019 • Mark Westall
Miehling, the Art Block’s third resident artist, explores the merging of man-made spaces with the unspoiled space of nature through his installation, A Tree is a Big Plant with a stick up in the Middle (2019)
Selfridges starts 2019 with major arts campaign ‘State of The Arts’
10 January 2019 • Mark Westall
Selfridges’ ongoing commitment to present art in unexpected places takes centre-stage in a major arts campaign.
Selfridges Art Block: Matthew Derbyshire
5 September 2018 • Mark Westall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) and Selfridges are going to present a new commission by British artist Matthew Darbyshire for the London store’s Art Block.
My week in the art world – 180 to Wakefield Express
29 May 2018 • Staff
This week – besides almost losing my passport whilst Spring cleaning – I lay on a very comfortable pink carpet at 180 The Strand and then took a train to Wakefield to feel the density of Anthony McCall’s solid light sculptures and lie down on luscious green grass in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads come to YSP for 40th Birthday Celebration
17 February 2017 • Mark Westall
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is pleased to present sculptures by internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai… Read More
51 Art Highlights of 2016 Part Two
3 January 2017 • Mark Westall
It’s not news that 2016 was a turbulent year, but it was also a very creative year, so we asked the FAD team to pick some of their brightest art moments of 2016. Here is Part TWO of those picks.
James Webb: We Listen for the Future
18 October 2016 • Staff
A booming, repetitive drumming calls the visitor into the chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.