Biography
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England which opened in 1977. It was the UK's first sculpture park based on the temporary open air exhibitions organised in London parks from the 1940s to 1970s by the Arts Council and the LCC. It shows work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore, Barabara Hepworth, Elizabeth Frink, Andy Goldsworthy and Joan Miro. The sculpture park occupies the 500-acre (200-hectare) parkland of Bretton Hall. YSP was awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year (2014) and a new visitor centre that was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for architecture, with gallery, restaurant and a shop, opened in 2019. The Contemporary Art Society donated a special gift in 1985 of a John Hoskin and Eric and Jean Cass, well-known collectors of contemporary sculpture, donated 4 pieces through the CAS in 2012 which included Peter Randall-Page and Sophie Ryder.
