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Article: The Yorkshire Sculpture International

Greville Worthington, Chair of Yorkshire Sculpture Park explores what is an exciting time for both contemporary sculpture and Yorkshire

I feel lucky to have seen such interesting sculpture recently, both close to home, and further afield. I write before having looked at the submissions to the Royal Society of Sculptor’s annual summer exhibition, from which, as this year’s guest selector I will make my selection, but come to this

Cecil Thomas in the studio at Dora House

From the archive: Cecil Thomas: Soldier Sculptor

A new project

Cecil Thomas: Soldier Sculptor is a National Lottery Heritage Funded project which will focus on the personal wartime experiences of Cecil Thomas FRBS (1885-1976), one of the Society’s most prestigious members whose papers, including his unpublished autobiography, are held in our archives, and whose

Baronesss Wimpffen by Feodora Gleichen

From the Archive: Pioneering Women

Lady Feodora Gleichen (1861 - 1922)

Pioneering Women is a research project designed to shine a spotlight on the lives, careers and legacies of the talented and extraordinary women at the heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Each month in our Shape & Form enewsletter, our Research Curator, Rosamund Lily West will share with you

Festival of Britain

From the archive: The Festival of Britain

Rosamund Lily West, our Research Curator explores our involvement with the festival of 1951

The Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019 is a three-day festival in South Kensington. The festival offers a programme bringing together the science and the arts, echoing the vision that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had for the 1851 Great Exhibition, two centuries on from their birth in 1819. The

Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019

Article: Great Exhibition Road Festival

Sarah Berresford, Marketing & Communications Manager for Discover South Kensington invites you to explore the extraordinary this summer

Leading cultural venues are joining forces to recreate the spirit of the Great Exhibition of 1851 for the 21st century. Over one weekend this summer, South Kensington’s Exhibition Road will host a celebration of curiosity and discovery, with a new, free festival of art, science and culture. Running

Barbara Tribe FRBS

From the archive: Pioneering Women

Barbara Tribe FRBS (1913 - 2000)

Pioneering Women is a research project designed to shine a spotlight on the lives, careers and legacies of the talented and extraordinary women at the heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Each month in our Shape & Form enewsletter, our Research Curator, Rosamund Lily West will share with you

Olivia Gill Muck & Magic

Article: Illustrating Frink

Illustrator Olivia Lomenech Gill reflects on her first Elisabeth Frink encounter

My first encounter with Elisabeth Frink’s work was an image of a horse in the downstairs toilet at a neighbours house. I went home and made a drawing on a large blackboard in white chalk. My father took a photograph of it. Of course, my unconscious chalk homage to Elisabeth Frink was nothing special

Monument to Edith Kerrison

From the archive: Pioneering Women

Christine Gregory FRBS (1879 - 1963)

Pioneering Women is a research project designed to shine a spotlight on the lives, careers and legacies of the talented and extraordinary women at the heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Each month in our Shape & Form enewsletter, our Research Curator, Rosamund Lily West will share with you

Rose Gywnneth Holt

From the archive: Pioneering Women

Our new archive research project

My name is Rosamund and I am the new Research Curator here at the Society working on the ‘Pioneering Women’ research project, funded by the Paul Mellon Centre. Each month in our Shape & Form enewsletter, I would like to share with you something from the archive, and introduce you to some of the

Stephen Broadbent running a Masterpieces in Schools activity at a primary school in Chester. Photo credit: Art UK.

Article: Royal Society of sculptors partners with Art UK

Katey Goodwin, Deputy Director of Art UK announces it's new UK-wide sculpture project

Art UK has started adding sculpture to their website as part of a unique UK-wide cataloguing project. The first thousand sculptures are now available online, free of charge, to people in the UK and all over the globe via www.artuk.org An estimated 150,000 more will follow by the end of 2020. These

Alice Meredith Williams

From the archive: Alice Meredith Williams ARBS

Phyllida Shaw unveils the life and work of a little known sculptor

‘Small of stature and delicate in appearance, with visionary eyes, she acquired amid the rigours of her student life a power of endurance which supported her in the heaviest work, and no obstacles deterred her undaunted spirit from carrying out an idea.’ This description of Gertrude Alice Meredith

Grizedale Forest

Article: In partnership with Grizedale Forest

Hazel Stone reflects on the forestry Commission's centenary and recent collaborations with the Royal Society of Sculptors

Entering a new year is often a time of reflection as well as a time of optimistically looking to the future and this is particularly so for the Forestry Commission as it celebrates it’s centenary in 2019. Originally set up following the First World War to restore the nation’s woods and forests and

Anne Acheson putting her finishing touches to a sculpture called October in the 1920s

From the Archive: Anne Acheson CBE FRBS

The legacy of a sculptor whose achievements in WW1 still perpetuate

Anne Acheson (1882-1962) was a sculptor, born in Portadown, Co. Armagh. She studied architecture at the Royal College of Art, Kensington from 1906-1910. Subsequently her bespoke sculptures became popular in many houses and gardens. Her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and she became the first

The Intermediary Family by Bharti Kher

Article: The Intermediary Family by Bharti Kher

Dea Vanagan, Hauser & Wirth Director, reflects on Kher's new artwork for Frieze Sculpture 2018

In July, Frieze Sculpture returned to the English Gardens of Regent’s Park in London for its seventh edition. Curated by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 25 artists were selected through an open call by international galleries. With a mixture of existing and newly

The Coffin Jump by Katrina Palmer

Article: The Coffin Jump by Katrina Palmer

Helen Pheby, Senior Curator Yorkshire Sculpture Park discusses the park’s new 14-18 NOW installation

The Coffin Jump by Katrina Palmer at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is inspired by the role of women in the First World War, particularly the all-female First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps). The artwork features a horse jump with texts written in response to the nurses’

Out Of Body

Out Of Body

Exploring the differences between animate and inanimate

I am fascinated by the interconnectedness of the human and non-human as a means of exploring our relationship with impermanence.

Isaac Witkin

From the archive: Isaac Witkin (1936 - 2006)

Internationally renowned sculptor, Society member & Henry Moore's assistant

Nadine Witkin, talks about her late father

James Turrell Skyscape

Looking to the sky

With Turrell's Skyscape

“Scientific perspective is nothing but eye-fooling illusionism; it is simply a trick - a bad trick - which makes it impossible for an artist to convey a full experience of space” (Braque) How many times have you looked into a rectangle today, and how many times have you looked through that frame

El Peine de los Vientos

Encountering El Peine de los Vientos

by Eduardo Chillida in San Sebastian

Leaving the Mirakontxa Pasealekus, I enter the promenade and walk in a westerly direction, the promenade narrows and in the distance I see El Peine de los Vientos; suddenly rock outcrops obscure the view and instead, deep visceral sounds are felt and heard. Continuing, the promenade leads to a

Support for a cloud by Mhairi Vari

Exploring Sculpture in the City 2017

Powerful interactions with place

In the densely-built labyrinth of the City of London, where I work, the Sculpture in the City exhibition each year causes at least a few bustling office workers (including me) to focus on a sculpture and its place in the environment. The best of this year’s works interact powerfully with their