A vibrant textile artwork featuring geometric patterns in bold colours, including red, yellow, and black. The piece includes the text "I've got one imagination to good reason" woven into the design, framed with decorative fringes.
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Hold to This Earth Opening Celebration

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About Hold to This Earth Opening Celebration

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is pleased to invite you to the Opening Celebration of Hold to This Earth on Friday 12 June 2026.  

Please join us to celebrate a landmark exhibition that presents contemporary Indigenous North American art on a scale never before seen in the UK.

Bringing together works by 38 artists, Hold to This Earth features sculpture, ceramics, fibre art, film, photography, and painting, all reflecting on the deep and complex relationship between people, land, material and memory.

Exhibition open from 12.00 
Drinks served from 13.00 
Speeches from 14.00 
The gallery will close at 16.00

This invitation gives you and one guest free entry to YSP on Friday 12 June.

Please use the main entrance and park in the Visitor Centre car park (staff will be on site to direct you). The gallery is located a short walk from the car park, head through the Visitor Centre and down the stairs to access the gallery. Refreshments will be served near to the gallery entrance. Please click here for more information about visiting YSP.  

Dates and Times

  • Exhibition open from 12.00 | Drinks from 13.00 | Speeches from 14.00  Book Now

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