Panel Discussion: Art in the Landscape

Join us for this fascinating panel discussion exploring issues around outdoor sculpture and art that relates to it’s surrounding environment. A panel of leading artists, curators and commissioners including Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Robert and Nicky Wilson, co-founders of Jupiter Artland; and artist, Alec Finlay, will be looking at how practitioners have responded to the ever-shifting definition of the landscape, and considering what the role and motivations of the commissioner may be. Alice Workman, Director of Hauser & Wirth Somerset, will chair the discussion. This event has now sold out. Clare Lilley is Director of Programme and Head Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She holds a degree in the History of Art from the University of Manchester and joined Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1991. She was invited to be Curator of Frieze London Sculpture Park in 2012 and 2013 and in 2013 co-curated William Turnbull at Chatsworth. Clare is a board member of Site Gallery, Sheffield and a steering group member of Yorkshire Visual Arts Network. She moderated the British Council Contemporary Curators’ Forum at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2007), was a judge for the RIBA White Rose Awards for contemporary architecture, the Noilly Prat Prix de la Sculpture, and the Arts Foundation sculpture prize (2007 and 2013). She was a nominator for the 2007 Northern Art Prize and the 2012 Paul Hamlyn Artist Awards. Alec Finlay is an artist and poet based in Edinburgh. Born in Scotland in 1966, much of Finlay’s work reflects on our interaction with nature and considers how we as a culture, or cultures, relate to landscape. Recent projects include Swarm (ASX): an apicultural model of the global speculative financial system at the 18th Biennale of Sydney; Sweeney’s Bothy, a collaboration with The Bothy Project to create a hut for artist-residencies on the Isle of Eigg; and Tigh, Scotland’s National Memorial for Organ and Tissue Donors at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, opening September 2014. In 2010, Finlay was shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize. Finlay has published over twenty books, including today today today (Playspace, 2013), A Company of Mountains (Atlas, 2013) Be My Reader (Shearsman, 2012), and Question Your Teaspoons (Calder Wood Press, 2012). Robert and Nicky Wilson are co-founders of Jupiter Artland, a sculpture park located within the grounds of Bonnington House, just outside of Edinburgh. Since opening in 2009, Jupiter Artland have commissioned many major site-specific works by Turner Prize short-listed artists Cornelia Parker, Nathan Coley and Jim Lambie, as well as young British sculptors, Peter Liversidge and Tessa Lynch, to name but a few. Jupiter Artland offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore one of Britain’s pre-eminent collections of contemporary sculpture in a constantly evolving environment. Works on permanent display include iconic pieces by leading international sculptors including Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, displayed alongside site-specific commissions by artists including Ian Hamilton Finlay, Andy Goldsworthy, Charles Jencks and Marc Quinn. Image: Alec Finlay with Alistair Peebles