69. Celebrating Sculpture in the Wild

This week we celebrate the start of spring by giving you the lowdown on the best of Britain’s wonderful sculpture parks from Chatsworth, Farleys House and the Barbara Hepworth Garden to Forestry England’s woodland sculpture trails and On Form, Europe’s biggest exhibition of stone sculpture opening in Asthall, Oxfordshire in June. No round-up of sculpture parks would be complete without talking about Henry Moore and the magnificent Yorkshire Sculpture Park, celebrating its 45th birthday this year. We chat to Godfrey Worsdale, Director of the Henry Moore Foundation and Dr. Helen Pheby, Head of Curatorial Programming at Yorkshire.  Helen tells us about working on a sculpture exhibition  in Kyiv, Ukraine and the role of sculpture in unifying communities.  We chat about Moore’s extraordinary legacy and what’s in store for visitors at both YSP and  The Henry Moore Studios and Garden in Perry Green, Hertfordshire this summer – definitely both worth a visit.