Huddersfield University signs arts deal with Yorkshire Sculpture Park

May 6 2009 By Neil Atkinson

THE sculptors of the future could be from Huddersfield.

The University of Huddersfield and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park have signed an exciting new partnership deal.

It will mean students will have access to the four indoor galleries and external sculptures set in more than 500 acres of 18th-century parkland at West Bretton, in which the Sculpture Park has become an international centre for modern and contemporary art.

It is visited by thousands of visitors each year.

The University’s School of Art, Design and Architecture has become one of the foremost design colleges in the country, renowned for the creativity and quality of its teaching.

Its students are regular winners and finalists in national competitions and its graduates can be found across the creative industry.

Both organisations have previously worked together on an informal basis, but now plan to develop the new deal to benefit the arts.