Rocking Your World Friday - 16th of 2019

Good morning lovely people tis Friday time for 

So last weekend we ventured up to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, they have a new visitors centre called the Weston and it is now officially opened, so we parked up and headed inside.  It's all lovely and new and plush.

They also have a gallery so there was some brilliant artwork to enjoy named Thukral and Tagra: Bread Circuses & TBD, it informs about the fine balance that farmers rely on crops to provide goods to sell for a living in India, it also had a wrestling match for kushti wrestling in the centre of the gallery, obviously we didn't partake in the wrestling but I did enjoy the art work.  From a distance it has a strong design, but up close it had fabulous detail! 

I loved the colours

The shapes and the black and white element

And I found the images seriously thought provoking

Here you can see some of the detail, much of which was upside down or on its side. 

Just outside the Weston we came across Myth, the first of the four Damien Hirst pieces now in the park

 

We think we've seen these or one similar at Chatsworth Beyond Limits exhibition. 

The next one reminded me of those types of charitable coin collectors (albeit quite a bit smaller) in places like markets and foyers of shopping centres and supermarkets growing up.  The question is would we now portray disability in such a way, hopefully not.  It wasn't until we returned later did we realise the coin box at the back was open and leant against the character was an over sized crowbar, perhaps more a sign of the times now than then. 

The next one 'The Hat Makes the Man' really did look like a pallet with chopped lumps of doors and hats, it was in fact made of bronze!

 

The final piece known as Hymn was immense in size and incredibly graphic.  They aren't my favourite type of sculputre, but I can certainly admire the enormity of the sculpture and how amazing they look in the park

This image shows the size of the statue against the background.

When we turned from the statue we saw the diverted water and the bridge from the other side which was lovely and the water was really noisy!

We carried on in the park and headed to the chapel to see 

Kimsooja: To Breath 

The floor now covered in a highly polished aluminium covering and the windows all covered with film that refracts the light.  Unfortunately it wasn't a particularly sunny day but we enjoyed the visit nonetheless and took off hiking boots to enjoy the reflective floor! 

I loved the reflections and the elements of symmetry

We then headed over the bridge and up the David Nash steps, it was lovely to see the bluebells coming into flower at the top. 

The Long Gallery our next goal, to see Criminal Ornamentation a collection put together for the Arts Council by Yinka Shonibare

This was the first piece that we saw and was definitely one of my favourites.  Some of the work contains Shonibare's work, others are pieces he obviously enjoys. 

I loved this sculpture it reminded me of forming volcanic rock

I quite like the bold design

And the fabrics on these drum like skins were lovely! 

There was also a huge wall covered in Timorous Beasties wallpaper

From a distance it reminds me of a typical 1970's paper. 

We loved the light artwork 

Once back out of the Long Gallery we wandered down the field and along by the side of the lake, coming across this modern take of a folly in our wake.

Before finally landing back at the Weston where we enjoyed a cold thirst quenching drink and coffee. 

I also achieved the 9 month mark of being teetotal which is now second nature.  I do wonder if I'll ever drink again but for now I'm happy not to. 

Another busy work week including dealing with year end (but its finished so I can breath again and in super quick time). 

Thursday we found ourselves with a day off as we celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary

We actually went back up to YSP and had another walk this time including the main information centre as we'd missed a new artist there.  

I hope you've had a splended week and that you've got lots of positive things to celebrate and look back on.  If you fancy joining in pop a post together, pop back and link up and we can come and visit.