AS Yorkshire Sculpture Park Art Trip October 24th 2014

Students from Fine Art, Graphics and Photography spent a busy day at the beautiful Yorkshire Sculpture Park, braving the weather to draw, sketch, research and photograph the amazing artwork on show there. The students produced some inspired work and their enthusiasm was touching. As usual, they were an absolute credit to the college, behaving impeccably and really getting to grips with their work and research, making the most of the day.

There was a major exhibition of the work of Ursula Von Rydingsvard. This is the first time her work has ever been gathered together in a such a large-scale collection. The exhibition, which is the artist’s most extensive to date, illustrates the full scope of von Rydingsvard’s diverse practice, including more than 40 works of drawing and sculpture made over the last two decades, presented in YSP’s purpose-built Underground Gallery and the open air. Students spent the majority of their time working from this, both inside and outside. They also worked from an exhibition by Ai Weiwei in the Park's newly refurbished 18th century chapel. The project, the first by Ai Weiwei in a British public gallery since Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern in 2010, is accompanied by poetry readings from the works of celebrated poet Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei’s father.

To see the work of such internationally acclaimed artists is of great benefit to our younger, aspiring artists. Feedback from students was extremely positive, despite the rainy start to the day. Everyone knuckled down to business without a thought to the weather. Then, by lunchtime the sun was shining and we were all able to sit outside to eat sandwiches and enjoy the view across the sculpture park. A perfect day!

 

Here is some of the research work created by the students on the day, more will be added to our dedicated Pinterest board in the future!