Workshop
Collaborative Audio Description
10:00–15:30
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
![Henry Moore, 'Large Two Forms' 1969 (LH 556) at Yorkshire Sculpture Park](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2024/06/Henry-Moore-Large-Two-Forms-1966-69.jpg?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
Using new and experimental techniques to describe, interpret and share experiences of sculpture.
Join us for this one-day workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, as we pool our expertise and experience to collaboratively create new audio interpretations of artwork on display at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
This workshop is open to blind, partially blind and sighted participants. Led by writer Joe Rizzo Naudi and artist and educator Sally Booth, both of whom are registered blind, the workshop will use new and experimental techniques to describe, interpret and share experiences of sculpture.
Return transport from central Leeds to Yorkshire Sculpture Park is provided, along with lunch and refreshments. Please ensure that you have appropriate clothing and footwear for outdoor activity.
This workshop is part of a three-year research project, Beyond the Visual: Blindness and Expanded Sculpture. The project, a collaboration between the Henry Moore Institute, Shape Arts and University of the Arts London, was the recipient of the inaugural Arts and Humanities Research Council Exhibition Fund. The project will culminate with a landmark 2025 exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, foregrounding work by blind and partially blind artists.
![Shape Arts Shape Arts](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2024/06/Shape-Arts-16x10-1.png?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
![Chelsea College of Arts, UAL Chelsea College of Arts, UAL logo](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2024/06/UAL-chelsea-college-of-art-logo-16x10-centre-align.png?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
![UK Research and Innovation: Arts and Humanities Research Council UK Research and Innovation: Arts and Humanities Research Council logo](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2024/06/UKRI-AHRC-logo-16x10-centre-align.png?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
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Tickets
Places are free but booking is essential. Please advise us of any access needs when you book your place. Booking for this event will open in February 2025.
![Aaron McPeake, 'Once I Saw it All' 2022 A splayed hand touching a bronze plate with lines of single black letters recessed into it. The letters are from a Snellen eye test chart and reduce in size from top to bottom.](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2023/09/Aaron-McPeake-Once-I-Saw-it-All-2022.jpg?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
Beyond the Visual: Blindness and Expanded Sculpture
Research Season
Autumn 2024 – Spring 2025
This Research Season explores engagements with contemporary sculpture using senses other than sight, challenging the dominance of sight in the making and appreciation of art.
Aiming to rethink the under-representation of blind and partially blind arts practitioners, we’ll investigate the relationship between artworks and audiences, the varied ways in which sculpture can be experienced, and what is gained from creative practices that emphasise a broader approach to sensory experience.
![Fayen d’Evie, 'From Dust to Dust: Prologue' 2018 (featuring Aaron McPeake's 'Resonant Cuts' 2011) A woman is raising her hand to touch metal sculptures hanging from the ceiling. There are seven of them, each a vertical slice cut from a bell.](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2023/09/Fayen-dEvie-From-Dust-to-Dust_-Prologue-2019-featuring-Aaron-McPeake-Resonant-Cuts-2011.jpg?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
Early career research symposium
Sensory Innovations and Creativity in the Arts
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![Aaron McPeake, 'Once I Saw it All' 2022 A ring of metal, roughly 30cm in diameter, hanging on a loop of string. A hand is steadying the ring, while a second hand is poised to strike it with a small, square hammer.](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2023/09/Aaron-McPeake-Once-I-Saw-it-All-2022-1.jpg?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
Conference
Blindness and Expanded Sculpture
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![Henry Moore, 'Large Two Forms' 1969 (LH 556) at Yorkshire Sculpture Park](https://images.henry-moore.org/uploads/2024/06/Henry-Moore-Large-Two-Forms-1966-69.jpg?resize=16%2C10&gravity)
Workshop
Collaborative Audio Description
10:00–15:30
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Getting here
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton
WF4 4LG
(Sat Nav for main car park: WF4 4JX)
United Kingdom
T: +44 1924 832 631
E: galleryteam@ysp.org.uk