South Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Chris Clark came to visit me today in his new car, he'd already been to pick up Helen C and she had the great idea of going to South Yorkshire Sculpture Park to have a look around. I'd never been before, and really enjoyed the experience, fantastic vast grounds in which are sequestered many varied sculptures to explore and find. in addition a number of galleries too. Sculpture is an art form that I don't normally appreciate, not someting you see often - apart from statues. In fact, whilst looking at some of these pieces I wondered how it was possible tolearn such techniques to create such vast pieces of work. Some of the pieces must have been incredibly difficult, technically, to construct, and expensive. Helen mentioned that cost was the most prohibitive factor whilst studying art, so the main medias were paper and video. Which is a shame to think that our most inovotive young artists are limited due to lack of funding - who knows what they could come up with otherwise!

I like these pieces, the bold primary colours, and the way that they appear completely different from various angles.

I quite like the form of steel girders, the rusting really gives them some kind of character of their own. How would you put something like this together, or imagine the angles that it would produce?



This anvil is huge, and when i first saw it, i didn't even spot the figure mounted at the top.



Helen had spotted this sculpture from afar, and thought for a moment that it was me, despite not having a head! So I made it look more like me!






Just demonstrates the beautiful surroundings to the sculptures.



Chris pretends to admire a piece, whilst Helen hides behind





I really liked the use of space in this gallery, I took a few surrepticious photos. The colour pictures were vast canvases and must've been a huge task to create mainting the same colour throughout. In fact the black piece had been produced using a knife an dthe different thicknesses of oil made the light shine differently upon the piece, so that close up there were distinct differences in the sheen.