Alongside my current exhibition and Kickstarter campaign, I was interested in visiting Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see the KAWS exhibition.
Fellow LAN artist Sam Bartlett and I discussed it, and he texted to suggest Sunday to go.
So, wading through the huge pile of Valentines Cards…. not, this was our first visit there. It’s a bit of a distance to get there, and would be impossible via train / bike, so it was nice to be offered a lift.
We were particularly impressed with Bill Viola’s Tristan and Isolde inspired video installation, and it was good to see BobandRoberta’s art manifesto opposite what appeared to be an abandoned research facility straight out of a Kate Bush video – here’s a link to some pics: http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/kaws-exhibit-at-ysp.html
I uploaded images of “Organon” to my Illustration blog here: http://helendearnleyillustration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/organon.html
I like to pretend I’m artist in residence there, building Cloudbusters all day long, but of course, the government have already destroyed my ability to conduct my research by way of the fact that I would not ever be able to travel there, realistically spend any time there either, never mind lack of funding.
An old school friend tells me this was where she did her teacher training, but it was closed down and moved to Leeds Met. I now understand the context of BobandRobertaSmith’s piece nearby, and next to the schools learning zone.
If any of you go to YSP, we missed the Bill Viola works in the Underground gallery, sadly, but you can imagine me in my Lab coat illustrating Cloudbusting with my colleague there.
