Lindsey Mendick: Where The Bodies Are Buried

6 April – 3 September 2023

The Weston Gallery

Open Tuesday–Sunday and Bank

Holidays, 10.00–17.00

Having graduated from Sheffield Hallam University, Lindsey Mendick returns to Yorkshire with a solo show in The Weston Gallery. Her multi-media installation investigates dreams, Gothic stories, television and shared cultural experiences.

Where The Bodies Are Buried takes inspiration from the popular 1990s UK soap opera Brookside and Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 short story The Tell-Tale Heart. The installation immerses visitors in the realm of the artist’s recurring anxiety dream. Set in a decaying house within the gallery, works include ceramics and stained glass emerging from the floorboards as hands, feet and limbs.

Mendick creates worlds layered with personal anecdotes, timeless myths and popular culture. She works predominantly with clay – a material that has historically been associated with decoration and the domestic sphere. She subverts these associations, creating intricate works that explore the roles and experiences of women in society. Mendick’s installations draw on her own stories and memories, with humorous, grotesque and beautiful results.

Simon Palmer: Observation of Landscape

4 March – 11 June 2023

YSP Centre and Upper Space

YSP Centre open daily, 10.00–18.00

Upper Space open daily, 10.00–17.00

Over the past four decades, Simon Palmer has become one of the UK's leading watercolour artists. His distinctive works are inspired by the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, where he has lived and worked for the last 40 years.

Palmer walks close to home every day, filling sketchbooks with pen and ink drawings, noting the beauty which surrounds him – the narrow lanes, railway bridges, drystone walls, farms, ancient trees, woodland and moors. Each scene is a starting point for his paintings, which use a subtle colour palette to capture every season in watercolour.

This collection of Palmer’s limited edition giclée prints has been created from his much sought-after watercolour, ink and gouache paintings, with their quintessentially English scenes, reminiscent of wartime paintings from the 1940s.

All works are available to purchase exclusively through YSP Shop and online at yspshop.org.uk

Own Art allows you to borrow from £100 up to £25,000 and pay it back over 10 months, completely interest free. All proceeds from your purchases help to support YSP.