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Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Wakefield

2023

We partnered with Yorkshire Sculpture Park to host a residency. Yorkshire based artists Grace Clifford and Jim Brook were the recipients of the residency and spent 2 weeks on site in October 2023. This award was open to applications for members of the WCCD and was selected in collaboration between YSP and WCCD. The residency is an opportunity for working class artists who have faced social and economic barriers to develop and move forward with their practice. Research such as the Panic! Report, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, has identified class origin as one of the most significant barriers to the culture sector.


"We have had long standing intentions to show our work together and we are using the residency to consolidate this, sharing the time and space at YSP to develop concepts and plan for our show. The residency would be a springboard for us both collaboratively, as well as individually."


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