Wakefield is at the centre of sculpture in Britain. Take a trip to the birthplace of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and you pass into the realms of three-dimensional art: 10 gracious galleries of these artists’ carvings and castings alongside many European masterpieces at the Hepworth Wakefield; sculptures like standing stones all through the green pastures of nearby Yorkshire Sculpture Park; plentiful buses to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
An ever-changing programme of new shows, in addition, takes sculpture so much to heart that anyone who wants to steep themselves in this art, specifically of the past 100 years, will find it at its most condensed in these few square miles of Yorkshire.
