YP Comment: County's sculptural excellence

ONE of the greatest Yorkshire cultural triumphs in recent years has been to establish the county as the unrivalled European capital of sculpture.

By The Newsroom

Published 17th Nov 2016, 10:35 BST

Updated 18th Nov 2016, 12:22 BST

Visitors from across the world flock to our Sculpture Triangle that embraces the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth, Wakefield, the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery, a closely-linked network of artistic excellence and inspiration.

Our pre-eminence is underlined today with the announcement of the inaugural winner of the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, in Wakefield. The prize will undoubtedly take its place amongst Britain’s most prestigious arts events.

It is comes as Barbara Hepworth’s seminal 1970 work The Family of Man has been restored at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where it is seen by 500,000 visitors a year. These numbers are proof not only of the world-class sculptural treasures Yorkshire has, but underlines the importance of the arts to our tourism economy.

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