Many galleries have additional outdoor displays of art attached to them but there are a few large scale exhibitions scattered around the country that have been purposely built outside. Amongst the biggest is the Yorkshire Sculpture Park which I personally visited a few years ago. This is a large scale open air gallery displaying a widely ranging selection of work from artists based all around the world but giving UK sculpture slightly more of a focus.
The park offers a platform for modern sculpture Several British artists have had solo exhibitions in the park. The 500 acres of land offers a landscape for work of well known artists Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth can be found in the park alongside the sculptures of Andy Goldsworthy and Antony Gormley. The work of Rodin is the oldest on show in the park, the main strength of his work predominatly lies in the natural beauty and quality of the stone he uses. Natural forms and organic shapes play a large part in the attraction of the sculptures throughout
the park. A few examples can be seen below.
Family of Man, bronze, 1970, Barbara Hepworth.
Sitting Man 2, Bronze, 1986, Elisabeth Frink.
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