Yorkshire Sculpture International
YSI is a partnership between Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, celebrating Yorkshire as a hub for sculptural excellence.
About Yorkshire Sculpture International
We are proud to be part of this unique collaboration between four of Yorkshire’s leading art institutions.
Our region has a world-renowned sculptural legacy rooted in the work of pioneering artists Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, who grew up and studied here. Our partnership builds on this unique heritage with our shared ambition to establish Yorkshire as the UK’s home of sculpture.
YSI Sculpture Network
Our joint professional development programme, YSI Sculpture Network, focuses on nourishing creative practice and pathways in Yorkshire.
We are continually inspired and driven by the growing community of important contemporary sculptors who choose to situate themselves in Yorkshire.
Since 2020, we’ve supported more than sixty artists working across expanded and interdisciplinary approaches to sculpture. We remain committed to nurturing this vibrant ecosystem, ensuring Yorkshire’s place as a thriving centre for sculpture well into the future.
YSI 2019
In the summer of 2019, the first Yorkshire Sculpture International took place across Leeds and Wakefield.
The UK’s largest dedicated sculpture festival, this series of exhibitions, international commissions, events and learning programmes celebrated sculpture in its broadest forms. The festival was on display across the four major galleries as well as several outdoors locations across the county.
Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019
22 June – 29 September 2019
Across all our gallery spaces and the Sculpture Research Library
From new work by international artists to sculpture drawn from world-class collections, this festival showcases the diversity of contemporary sculptural practice across four sites: the Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Phyllida Barlow: Bad Copies
12 April – 17 June 2012
Upper Sculpture Study Gallery
Known primarily for her large-scale installations made from salvaged materials that are constructed on-site, Barlow has a continuous practice of drawing which she uses to explore and record her visual ideas.
Yorkshire Sculpture International: Sean Lynch
22 June – 29 September 2019
Sculpture Research Library
Sean Lynch reveals unwritten stories and forgotten histories, and in this exhibition delves into the life and work of ‘Flint Jack’, a notorious nineteenth-century antiquarian, forger and vagabond.
