Occasional Geometries: Rana Begum Curates the Arts Council Collection at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Name: Occasional Geometries: Rana Begum Curates the Arts Council Collection at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Start: 2017-07-15T10:00:00
End: 2017-10-29T16:00:00
Location: Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Creative Tourist Last Updated 1 September 2017

Jesse Darling, March of the Valedictorians, 2016. © the artist and Arcadia Missa. Photo © Tim Bowditch

Occasional Geometries: Rana Begum Curates the Arts Council Collection at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 15 July — 29 October 2017 Entrance is free

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents Occasional Geometries, an exhibition selected largely from the Arts Council Collection by Bangladeshi-born artist and guest curator Rana Begum. Begum has established an internationally respected practice creating immaculately conceived and constructed abstract installations that challenge the distinction between two and three-dimensional practice, sculpture and painting.

Occasional Geometries: Rana Begum Curates the Arts Council Collection at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 15 July — 29 October 2017 Entrance is free

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