Posted in Art at 12:00 on 30 September 2026
Other well-known artists apart from Hockney are on display in the Cartwright Memorial Hall in Bradford. There are two works by L S Lowry.
“Industrial Landscape ‘Ashton-under-Lyne'”:-

“Haworth Church”:-

Paul Nash is known for his war paintings but “View from a Window in Nice” represents his surrealist side:-

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Posted in Art, Trips at 14:00 on 29 September 2026
More Hockney in the Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford.
“Bradford Indoor Market” and “Artist’s Family at Tea”:-

“A Bounce for Bradford,” part of a morale boosting campaign for the City in 1987 after the fire at Valley Parade:-

“Autumn” from 1954:-

“Moorside Road” from 1955:-

Untitled late work made on an iPad:-

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Posted in Art, Events dear boy. Events, Trips at 16:00 on 28 September 2026
Artist David Hockney (who died in June) is one of Bradford’s most famous sons. The Cartwright Memorial Hall and Gallery holds several of his works. Two of them are the Bradford Phone Book for 1989 and A Travel Guide to Bradford from 1992:-

Le Plongeur (Paper Pool 18) is a more typical Hockney:-

Early drawings:-

Pencil Drawings:-

Street Scene on Hillside:-

David Hockney: 9/7/1937 – 11/6/2026. So it goes.
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Posted in Art, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 14 September 2026
One of the buildings at Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a former chapel.
When we were there it held pieces by Laura Ellen Bacon who use sustainable Somerset willow to make her sculptures.
The main piece was titled Into Being:-

This is the same piece viewed from the balcony:-

This piece, on the balcony, is Contact 2021:-

In the vestibule of the chapel was Muscle Memory:-

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Posted in Art, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 12 September 2026
This is Masayuki Koorida’s Form Twist. (The spheres in the background are by the same artist):-

Also by Masayuki Koorida: Growth. (This looks to me like a V2 rocket or the rocket on the cover of the Tintin story Destination Moon):-

Simeon Barclay: Pittu Pithu Pitoo (the cockerel is part of the sculpture.) Bretton Hall is in the background:-

Sophia Vari: Le Roi et La Reine:-

Suhasini Kejriwal: Garden of Unearthly Delights:-

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Posted in Art, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 10 September 2026
In a secluded green area near to the main buildings at Yorkshire Sculpture Park there were two more Daniel Arsham pieces. We happened on them by coming up from the park via this pond:-

View from other side of pond:-

Bronze Eroded Venus of Arles, part of Relics in the Landscape:-


Main park building and Bronze Eroded Bunny:

Reverse view of wall above (Bronze Eroded Venus to left):-

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Posted in Art, Bridges, Doctor Who, Trips at 12:00 on 8 September 2026
This strange head is by Daniel Arsham. It’s called Unearthed Bronze Eroded Melpomene and from this angle looks like something out of Doctor Who:-

But is a more conventional head from the other side:-

HA_HA is by Brian Fell:-

This old deer shelter at Yorkshire Sculpture Park has now been converted by James Turrell to an Art piece:-

A square has been cut out from its roof allowing a view of the sky:-

A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir by Kimsooja:-

Sean Scully’s Wall Dale Cubed:-

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Posted in Art, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 3 September 2026
There are several Damien Hirst pieces at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
“Virgin Mother” here seen beyond a lovely bridge over the River Dearne:-

“Virgin Mother” is a giant anatomical model (such as the ones I once used to demonstrate to pupils when teaching the Biology aspect of the First Year Science course – though the school’s model did not display pregnancy):-


“Virgin Mother” in panoramic view (Bretton Lakes, part of the Park, in background):-

“The Hat Misses the Man” for some reason reminded me of 1960s children’s cartoons on TV:-

“Charity” deliberately recalls the charity boxes which used to stand outside High Street shops:-

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Posted in Art, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 1 September 2026
Fittingly, since Yorkshire Sculpture Park is only a few miles south of Wakefield, her birthplace and home to The Hepworth Wakefield, the Park contains several Barbara Hepworth works.
The most substantial of these is “The Family of Man”, a series of nine sculptures that represent people. They are distributed across part of the Park in amongst some trees.






Also in the Park is Hepworth’s “Squares with Two Circles”:-

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Posted in Art, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 29 August 2026
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is situated some miles south of Wakefield. Since in our visits to Haworth and Bradford we were close, we took it in.
The Sculpture Park is similar to Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh but covers a much larger area.
There are several Henry Moore sculptures in its grounds.
Upright Motives is near the car park, well before the entrance building:-

Three Piece Reclining Figure:-

Large Spindle Piece:-

Large Totem Head:-

I’m afraid I didn’t note down what this one was called (two angles below):-


Reclining Figure, Arch Leg:-

Reclining Figure Arch Leg showing ‘mouth’:-

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