A Walk in the Park: “Occasional Geometries” at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
By Ned Carter Miles
MATTHEW DARBYSHIRE
The year 2017 has been good for London-based Rana Begum. Having already won the prestigious Abraaj Group Art Prize, and mounted her first museum show at Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, she was invited this summer to curate an exhibition at West Yorkshire’s Longside Gallery, which is used on an alternating basis by Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Arts Council Collection (ACC). “Occasional Geometries,” which consists largely of works from ACC, is recognizably of Begum’s devising. Combinations of strong color and sharp geometry sit strikingly in the light, open space of the gallery, one glass wall of which looks out over fields towards the 500-acre sculpture park and its works by both British and international artists.
