Stone carving workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
You’d never have known it’s the middle of Summer by looking at the sky above Bretton Country Park in mid-July: a patchwork of grey to black clouds with occasional bright blue holes puncturing the otherwise oppressive weather. It was as if Summer, disgruntled by the miserable forecast, was trying to tear holes in an unwanted birthday present: a dull blanket from mother nature. Luckily, the education team at Yorkshire Sculpture Park provided gazebos for participants at their Stone Carving course lead by Marcia Bennett-Male, which made for handy dry stepping-stones to leap between...
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I can honestly say that this is the first weekend I’ve spent in close proximity to molten metal. And by close I mean hair singeingly close – so much so I’m sure I picked up a tan at the four day Bronze Casting workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I was asked to photograph the final day of the workshop, as it was to be the day they fired up the furnace, melted the bronze and poured it into the expectant casts which had been carved by the budding sculptors and artists taking part. I practically leapt at the prospect of taking photographs of all the flames, heat and glowing...
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They say thirteen is unlucky for some – not for me though, as Tuesday 13th April was my first official assignment for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The assignment was to capture events as they unfolded at the ‘Stacking Stones’ sculpture workshop held in their education area, at their Bretton Park site in Wakefield. The workshop is part of the Stone Project, I’ll save on regurgitating the aims of the project to you as they’re helpfully provided on their website. But, in essence it’s all about perceiving stone as an element and to understand our connection...
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