We're excited to announce a bold year-long programme of exhibitions, commissions and residencies coming to Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2026. Exploring resilience, inheritance and transformation, this programme invites reflections on land, material, memory and community. 

From June, and at the heart of the new programme is a landmark exhibition in collaboration with Tia Collection; Hold to this Earth. This major presentation of work by contemporary Indigenous American artists is the first group exhibition staged in the prestigious Underground Gallery in its twenty-year history. It brings together over 60 works by more than 30 artists, whose practices are rooted in deep relationships to land, cultural memory and community. Artists including Rose B. Simpson, Raven Halfmoon, Jeffrey Gibson, Nicholas Galanin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Marie Watt, Emmi Whitehorse and Yatika Starr Fields explore land, identity and materiality, honouring ancestral knowledge while imagining new futures.

From spring, LR Vandy will transform The Weston Gallery with an exhibition, Rise, rooted in maritime and textile histories. Vandy’s material-led practice is distinguished by her use of rope and found materials to explore power dynamics, cultural traditions, and histories of international trade.

In summer, Jakob Rowlinson presents ROTATOR in the Visitor Centre – an installation of suspended sculptures made using leather coloured with oak-gall dyes foraged from trees within the Park. ROTATOR, and the accompanying solo exhibition REVIVER at The Art House in Wakefield, weaves together complex material histories, explores the ecology of the Park's landscape, and continues the artist’s interest in queering the archive.

Yorkshire Graduate Award recipient Jim Ever also draws on connection and renewal, reimagining our relationship to nature during his site-based period of research and development with the view to produce a large-scale, audio-visual installation for display in spring 2026.  

Outdoors will see the addition of Andi Walker’s new slate quilt sculpture Wrapped in Cold Hard Comfort which challenges our expectations of materials, and Thabo Mkwananzi creates a space for conversation and reflection in the landscape, drawing on ancestral wisdom and future-facing thinking with UMFECE(Cocoon). 

Visitors to the Park will be able to engage in the themes of the exhibitions through creative workshops, talks, resources and participatory projects, these programmes invite audiences to reflect, question and deepen their connection with the artwork and landscape that inspires them. 

Complementing the main programme, our shop and retail programme presents exhibitions by Louise Lockhart (The Printed Peanut), Annie Montgomerie and Angela Harding, highlighting heritage, craft and a playful reinterpretation of pattern, texture and nature. 

We hope to welcome you to the Park in 2026, a place where land, art and community meet, to experience these exhibitions first hand. 

 

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