Some more fantastic scuplture - this time by Andy Goldsworthy, whose raison d'etre is to make art that stems from and fits into the environment in which it's shown.The Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Bretton Hall is just five minutes from junction 38 on the M1. If you haven't got time to spend the best part of a day visiting the whole thing just give yourself an hour next time you're going up the M1 and visit the Underground Gallery which is exclusively Andy Goldsworthy's for the rest of 2007.
In the entrance hall is a huge 'egg' made of logs, which is fun.
The first gallery, which was my least favourite, consists of concentric circles of flat local stone.
The next room is a bit spooky. It's very dark because Goldsworthy won't allow artificial lighting in any of the galleries so everything changes with the time of day and the weather. It's like entering a wooden igloo, made of thick interwoven branches.
The room after that is breathtaking. It's an empty gallery with wattle and daub plaster applied to the wall, but minus the lime which allows it to stretch, so everything is cracked and crazed like a dried-up beach.
The final room is absolutely wonderful. Across the whole width of the gallery is a 'curtain' made of leaf-stalks pinned together with thorns. It's pictured above.
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