Click the link in our bio to watch artist Yacout Hamdouch in conversation with curator Eleri Fanshawe as they discuss the artist’s recent series ‘Poetic Landscapes’ and ‘Fertile Rainbows’.

Rise is the first solo museum exhibition by LR Vandy, created for The Weston Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Working with rope and found materials, Vandy explores power dynamics, cultural traditions and the legacies of international trade through large-scale, materially resonant installations.

Rise is the first solo museum exhibition by LR Vandy, created for The Weston Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Working with rope and found materials, Vandy explores power dynamics, cultural traditions and the legacies of international trade through large-scale, materially resonant installations. Outside the gallery, visitors encounter Dancing in Time: The Ties That Bind Us, a monumental five-metre rope monolith originally commissioned by National Museums Liverpool and previously presented on Liverpool’s historic dockside. The work extends Vandy’s investigation into connection, labour and collective histories.

Spanning 125 years of Black music-making in Britain, The Music is Black: A British Story explores how Black British music has profoundly shaped the nation’s cultural landscape.

Included in the exhibition are works by Sokari Douglas Camp CBE and LR Vandy, whose practices engage with histories of heritage, dance and cultural expression.

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