"Helen Escobedo at Yorkshire Sculpture Park"
2008-05-24 until 2008-12-31
Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Longside Gallery
Wakefield, , UK United Kingdom

Helen Escobedo is an international artist whose career spans over fifty years. An early exponent of installation art, she was one of the first artists of her generation to embrace site specificity in both permanent and ephemeral works. Themes of waste and the environment, women's role in society, death, memory and the transformative action of light are prevalent in her work which often brings together the cultures of Mexico and Western Europe through art that intervenes in everyday life.

Escobedo's interest in the cylindrical form of baled hay, its monolithic presence in fields across Europe and traditional pastoral connections within British landscape art, has informed the development of a new site-specific piece at the Sculpture Park.

This exciting work comprises twenty cylindrical sculptures sited in a square acre of land in the Country Park. Each structure has an inner and outer mesh, painted in such a way that the sculpture appears to float and merge with the landscape. The work alters and shifts depending on weather conditions, viewpoint and quality of light to create a defined but indeterminable space.

Born in Mexico City of an English mother and a Mexican father, Escobedo majored in the humanities and received her master's degree in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London. She also received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. She works on projects around the world, from New Zealand to Israel, England, Canada, the United States and Latin America.

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