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Hold to This Earth review – an explosion of anger as Indigenous America shakes up Yorkshire
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Neons and videos mix with weaving and beadwork to address subjects as diverse as stolen land, ancestral traditions and queer identity. But the self-made nude steals the show A breeze from the vast North American planes has blown across the rolling Yorkshire hills. The work of 38 Indigenous American artists has filled the galleries of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, transforming their underground space into a world of clay and earth, fabric and ceramics, painting and sculpture that talks of land, memory, oppression and freedom through art. Everywhere, there’s a sense of ancestral identity, memory and tradition. It’s in the Navajo weavings of Tyrrell Tapaha and Melissa Cody , the patterned beadwork of Jeffrey Gibson , the dizzying geometricism of Dyani White Hawk ’s towering column. They all use traditional aesthetics to explore new ideas: Gibson’s work is about how his
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Hold to This Earth review – an explosion of anger as Indigenous America shakes up Yorkshire, Yorkshire Sculpture Park Neons and videos mix with weaving and beadwork to address subjects as diverse as stolen land, ancestral traditions and queer identity. But the self-made nude steals the show A breeze from the vast North American planes has blown across the rolling Yorkshire hills. The work of 38 Indigenous American artists has filled the galleries of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, transforming their underground space into a world of clay and earth, fabric and ceramics, painting and sculpture that talks of land, memory, oppression and freedom through art. Everywhere, there’s a sense of ancestral identity, memory and tradition. It’s in the Navajo weavings of Tyrrell Tapaha and Melissa Cody , the patterned beadwork of Jeffrey Gibson , the dizzying geometricism of Dyani White Hawk ’s towering column. They all use traditional aesthetics to explore new ideas: Gibson’s work is about how his
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