Longside Gallery
Designed by Tony Fretton Architects, Longside Gallery is a unique space for sculpture, offering panoramic views of Yorkshire Sculpture Park through its glazed walls. The Arts Council Collection and Yorkshire Sculpture Park share Longside Gallery for an alternating programme of innovative exhibitions.
Recent Arts Council Collection exhibitions at Longside Gallery include: Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection, In My Shoes: Art and the Self since the 1990s (2018), Kaleidoscope: Colour And Sequence In 1960s British Art (2017); Night in the Museum: Ryan Gander Curates The Arts Council Collection (2016); and Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977–1986 (2015).
Between exhibitions, Longside Gallery is used for a range of educational and outreach activities and events.
Previous Exhibitions
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection explores the cultural and social dimensions of the use of pattern in art.
In My Shoes explores the ways in which artists based in the UK have represented themselves in their work since the 1990s.
Kaleidoscope examines 1960s visual art through a fresh and surprising lens. The exhibition tours to Nottingham Warwick and Liverpool in 2017-18.
Curated by leading British artist Ryan Gander, this major touring exhibition offered a unique view of the Arts Council Collection in its seventieth anniversary year
This was the first UK museum exhibition of work by the renowned American artist KAWS, whose wide ranging practice includes painting, sculpture, graphic design, toys and prints.
The first survey of the young artists in the late 1970s and 1980s who shared a revived interest in the sculpted object, in materials, and in ideas around making. Including Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Cornelia Parker.
This major exhibition, in partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle, celebrates and commemorates the extraordinary career of Sir Anthony Caro (1924–2013).
This exhibition, which presents the Arts Council Collection’s significant holdings alongside key loans from the artist and UK collections, has been selected by his friend and former student, Richard Deacon
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