Nat Bellingham

Nat Bellingham is a freelance maker, performer, and creative facilitator. Born in South Africa, raised in Manchester, and now living in Wakefield, Nat works with adults, children, families and young people in visual arts.

Working in a range of settings, including theatres, galleries, schools, hospitals and in the outdoors, play and imagination is at the centre of everything Nat does.

Nat studied Performance at Bretton Hall, in the grounds of YSP, graduating with a First Class honours in 2008. During her time here, Nat’s unique practice, combining visual arts and nature developed. Nat continues to instigate projects, collaborate, mentor, and teach, alongside her practice. She has worked with YSP as an artist educator for over 12 years.

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    Jørgen Haugen Sørensen: Supplement til Titlens Afskaffelse

    Supplement til Titlens Afskaffelse (Supplement to the Title’s Abolition) embodies Haugen Sørensen’s respect for and relationship with granite. After YSP organised his first solo exhibition in the UK in 1993, the artist developed a great interest in siting sculpture in the open air, enjoying the tough, uncompromising nature of granite, which is one of our hardest and most unyielding stones.
  2. David Nash Barnsley Lump 1982 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
    Art Outdoors

    David Nash: Barnsley Lump

    Barnsley Lump is a rough-cut block of local coal that connects to the geological and social history of the area. It is gradually disintegrating back into the earth, as Nash anticipated, describing it as a ‘going’ work.
  3. Visitor inside Roger Hiorns Seizure, 2008, Courtesy Arts Council Collection at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
    Art Outdoors

    Roger Hiorns: Seizure

    In 2008 Roger Hiorns transformed an empty council flat in Southwark, London into Seizure, a sparkling blue world of copper sulphate crystals. The work was created using 75,000 litres of liquid copper sulphate, which was pumped into the former dwelling to create a strangely beautiful and somewhat menacing crystalline growth on the walls, floor, ceiling and even the bath of the abandoned flat.
  4. Detail of Willem Boshoff – Flagstone 2016 which reads "Gutta cavat Lapidem,"at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
    Art Outdoors

    Willem Boshoff: Flagstone

    Willem Boshoff’s Flagstone is a sculpture and a seat, positioned here overlooking Upper Lake to provide a space for rest and contemplation. In summer 2018, Boshoff spent a month at YSP, researching and meticulously recording the flora and fauna. Each day he walked the paths around the Park and became particularly fond of the areas around the Lakes. The residency was followed by an exhibition in Upper Space and the subsequent gift of Flagstone as a permanent work for YSP’s landscape.