Yorkshire Sculpture Park Archive

Extensive photographic documentation, press clippings, media coverage on video and radio cassette, articles, catalogues and printed matter associated with the collection, exhibition and events programme, education, marketing, fundraising and sponsorship, publicity, buildings, site and political development in the arts from 1977 to the present. In addition there is a sculptors index and articles relating to sculpture in public places. It holds a list of contributing artists and publication contributors, lists of exhibitions and residencies, lists of cassette recordings of media broadcasts, lists of video recordings of TV coverage and lists of artists in exhibitions and residencies represented by slide.

To December 2002, almost 500 artists have exhibited at YSP including: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Sir Anthony Caro, Phillip King, Eduardo Paolozzi, Emily Antoine Boudelle, Marino Marini, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Kan Yasuda, Elisabeth Frink, Auke de Vries, Joel Shapiro, Jacques Lipchitz, Christo, George Fullard, Kenneth Armitage, Max Ernst, Fritz Wotruba, Andy Goldsworthy, Barry Flanagan and Sophie Ryder.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, at Bretton Hall near Wakefield, seeks to provide a centre of regional, national and international importance for the creation, exhibition and appreciation of modern and contemporary sculpture. Founded in 1977 by Peter Murray OBE, it has pioneered curatorial support for sculpture in the open air and access to the arts and landscape for all sectors of the community. Projects include exhibitions (in this country and abroad), residencies, the development of a collection, commissions, publications and wide-ranging educational activities from tours to artist-led workshops for schools and the public, with particular emphasis on hands-on experience.

The Archive charts the history and ongoing development of YSP as the country's first permanent sculpture park, a 'gallery without walls', as well as sculpture in the open air nationally and internationally. It is consulted by museum and gallery professionals, artists, teachers and commissioning agents, the general public and students studying subjects such as landscape design, tourism, architecture, marketing, heritage and administration as well as the visual arts.