Inspiration: Yorkshire Sculpture Park

For our newest blog series, staff at The Modern House were asked to list the location, film, painting, building, or piece of music that first inspired their interest in Modernism.

Rosie, who joined The Modern House sales team in Spring 2015, instantly named Yorkshire Sculpture Park.  Home to work by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, it is one of the largest sculpture parks in the world.

Rosie says:

‘I love that it is constantly evolving, and has been since I first visited with my mum in the late 1980s.

There’s nowhere else like it near where I’m from (Leeds) and I love the way the park changes with the seasons – you get to engage with the sculptures in a totally different way if the place is covered in snow or glistening in the sunshine.

There isn’t a lot of modern architecture in Yorkshire, and the YSP was a gateway to Modernism for me: it sparked an interest in modern art, literature and architecture, and the relationship between them.’

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