Daniel Arsham: Relics in the Landscape

Until spring 2024

Formal Garden

Grounds open daily, 10.00–18.00

In his first UK museum display, six bronze sculptures by the highlyacclaimed North American artist Daniel Arsham are now sited in the historic Formal Garden.

Arsham’s sculptures appear as archaeological remnants of our time that he describes as ‘future relics’ –sitting between the real and fictional, the past and the future. The artist takes recognisable imagery, from ancient Greek statues to modernday animated characters, to explore themes of decay and regeneration and spark conversations about how the relics of our time might appear to future generations.

Displayed in the 18th-century grounds of the Bretton Estate, Arsham’s sculptures resonate with the layers of past, present and future human activity that have shaped this unique place, and makes us consider what we as humans leave behind.

New Exhibition

Leonardo Drew

18 March – 29 October 2023

Chapel

Open daily, 10.00–17.00

New York-based artist Leonardo Drew’s abstract works are made from an abundance of individual elements to create dynamic, large-scale installations. His new work for YSP’s Chapel is a powerful reflection on the weight of collective experience, memory, the cycles of life and death, decay and regeneration. These themes resonate strongly within a building where lives have been played out for centuries.

The central material is plywood – either blackened or covered with coloured and textured paint – which is shattered to create the building blocks for an enormous monolith that resembles an explosion held in time.

Drew resists prescribing exact meanings and chooses to title his pieces only with numbers in order “to give the viewer enough room to find themselves in the work”, although he has often alluded to socio-political issues in his practice. As a child, he lived near the city dump and described it as his treasure trove, collecting discarded objects, making things from them, and finding boundless creativity amidst adversity.