Highlights

2 - 8 June, 2025

New Art Highlights includes: Oliver Getley, Rachel Gibson, Tony Wade and Martyn Lucas

Here-Before-Here-Together, 2020 by Oliver Getley

Here-Before-Here-Together was an online sound-making and listening workshop exploring Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oaks that stands outside the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds City Centre. The workshop draws on participants' experiences and found materials to create meditative digital soundscapes.

Here-Before-Here-Together was supported by Leeds Museums & Galleries 200th Birthday Grant.

Here-Before-Here-Together

By Oliver Getley | 2020

Forest Floor Drawing Series, 2025 by Rachel Gibson

Drawing series: exploration of an ecosystem which is hidden underfoot and often overlooked. These playful drawings are worked from memory and studio reconstruction using various types of graphite media and markmaking techniques.

76 x 56cm

Forest Floor Drawing Series

By Rachel Gibson | 2025

Keepers of Time exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2024 - 2025 by Tony Wade

Made up of a series of intricate drawings, Keepers of Time celebrates the majesty of trees, spanning time beyond our lifespans, embodying mindfulness and nature’s connectivity. The works were created over the last year as part of Wakefield-based artist Tony Wade’s project documenting ancient and veteran trees for the Woodland Trust’s Ancient Tree Inventory. This inventory is a record of the oldest and most important trees in the UK, and the Woodland Trust ask people to contribute by populating the map.

Returning to YSP throughout the different seasons in 2024, Wade has created finely detailed digital drawings of the oldest trees within the Park, both with and without their foliage. The trees captured - some of which date back 300-400 years - include an ancient ash, veteran common sycamores and beeches, and an ancient field maple.