Sculpture Park proves value of our cultural sector – The Yorkshire Post says

The exhibits dotted across its 500 glorious acres are well enough spaced to organise a game of cricket in between.

It is without doubt a world-class exhibition space, and indeed it was one of the institutions behind the global Yorkshire Sculpture Festival last year – but the absence of visitors these last few months, at the very height of its season, has cruelly exposed the fragility of the infrastructure within the arts and creative sector.

Just a year after opening its stunning new visitor centre and restaurant, it finds itself having to make emergency applications for funds to the Arts Council. Needless to say, it will not be alone in so doing.

Yet quarantine has proved the importance of art and the outdoors to our national wellbeing. We need them more than ever – especially when they are as one.

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