Discover The Beauty Of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is an enormous 500-acre open air gallery that truly highlights the beautiful relationship between art and nature.

Where better to explore stunning English countryside and discover monumental sculpture than at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Whether you’re a Henry Moore fan or enjoy whiling away your time in a James Turell contemplative light installation, YSP is the ideal location for an art day trip. As these photographs reveal, who needs white-walled galleries when you have such verdant landscape.

Henry Moore in the Country Park

Jaume Plensa, Wilsis, 2016

Henry Moore, Three Piece Reclining Figure No 1, 1961-2

Anthony Caro, Promenade, 1996

Barbara Hepworth, Square with Two Circles, 1963

Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads (detail), 2010

Helen Escobedo, Summer Fields, 2008

Michael Zwingmann, Invasion, 1999

James Turrell, Skyspace in the Deer Shelter, 2006

Zak Ové, Black and Blue The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, 2016-17

David Nash, Seventy-one Steps, 2010

Henry Moore, Draped Seated Woman, 1957-58

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4LG. Tel: +44 (0) 1924 832631
Want to see more at Yorkshire Sculpture Park? Zak Ové’s installation is on view until 2018.

About the author

Freire Barnes

Art & Design Editor

Born in the heart of London, Freire's been surrounded by art since childhood. From being mesmerised by Fra Angelico's frescos in Florence to experiencing Dali's Mae West room in Caduceus, Freire's extensive travels instilled a love of the arts. After studying painting she worked for David Bowie's, Bowieart and began to write for the BBC, Bon and Dazed &amp Confused. She curated the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award and was one of the first cohort to graduate from the Royal College of Art's Critical Writing in Art &amp Design MA. When not at an art opening, she's excited to bring her global art discoveries to the Culture Trip's readers.