The Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle

Yorkshire sculpture Triangle is a massive part of the Yorkshire art world. It consists of the Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Gallery and Yorkshire sculpture Park. First of the collection of galleries that I visited was the Hepworth, this gallery is based around sculpture, as are the other two. The exhibition which was happening at the time didn't particularly interest me as I'm not massive fan of sculpture. Although I did take the time to look round all of the exhibitions, take images for future visual reference; I think this is an important factor and the stick art space within your surrounding areas to know what is happening within the creative community around you. As can be seen below majority of the sculpture was conceptual, all of the Yorkshire sculpture Triangle can be considered as modern conceptual art galleries.

Yorkshire sculpture Park, was a vast area which sculptures embodying the artist’s concept were displayed in great magnitude, none of which being on small-scale. Seeing the sculptures outside allowed the audience to be more interactive with them, due to the open surroundings. Rather than being in a gallery space and told not to touch them, people interacted physically with them, I saw myself people climbing on them, and interacting with their form. This allows you to look at the sculptures in a different way; gaining an interactive perspective of the art work.

The Henry Moore Institute is again a conceptual sculpture gallery, which houses various exhibitions within Leeds. I recently visited the Votives exhibition by Alkesandra Domanovic, the exhibition consists of two main types of sculpture, the first being a series of women's arms holding offerings, the second stacks of A4 paper human height off the ground, with images printed on the side. The artist specialises in a folding aesthetic of classical sculpture investigation into how developing technology relates to the societies that create it.

although not being the biggest fan of sculpture I found visiting all of these galleries and enjoyable experience and it allowed me to interact with the Leeds creative community, which is one of my aims for this year, therefore I will continue to do so as new and exciting exhibitions come to Leeds. I believe this is important because I believe that visual context influences my work, and it is of grave importance to understand the creative needs of the environment that you are designing in.