Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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| Not Vital |
Today I visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in search of inspiration for my studio project on Sense of Place. I have been the Park many of times but never to research into such topic as this one. I had previously seen the work of KAWS and the work of Antony Gormley but was interested to find out more about the work of Not Vital.
KAWS (or Brian Donnelly) is favourite artist of mine and ever has been since he designed the 2013 Video Music Awards Moon Man Sculpture. When I found out his work was debuting itself at YSP I was very exited to see it in the open air gallery. 6 of his iconic sculptures are at the gallery and the opinion or context behind them are really left open to the viewer. The sculptures are large in size and size among the open air gallery, you can walk around and get a feel of the different areas and the different exaggerated expressions and posses the characters are exhibiting. This relates so well to a sense of place because the characters are sensing, viewing and reacting to place in my opinion. This is something I want to repeat in my own work on how people move from one place to the next and how pyscho-geography and anthropology can affect their culture.
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| The work of KAWS Antony Gormley is also a very famous artist who exhibits one of his sculptures at the YSP. Once again the meaning behind his expressionless, sometimes random, and mysterious people sculptures hold a strong resemblance to my own work on how people sense and experience 'place'. His work has also been iconic in branding Newcastle; the Angel of the North sits just of the motorway and is a brand symbol for the city.
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