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Rob Ryan, Listen to the World, 2015. Courtesy the artist
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Rob Ryan, I Walked and I Thought, Papercut, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Rob Ryan, Secret Place, Papercut, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Exhibition
Rob Ryan: Listen to the World
4 Jul 2015 – 1 Nov 2015
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- West Bretton
- Wakefield
- WF4 4LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- For West Yorkshire timetables call 0113 245 7676, for South Yorkshire timetables call 01709 515151 alternatively, visit www.wymetro.com
- Wakefield Westgate is the nearest main line station, around 7 miles from YSP. A taxi from the station costs approx £10. London King's Cross to Wakefield takes around 2 hours.
Visitors are invited to enter Rob Ryan’s whimsical world in YSP Centre to discover a collection of charming and intricate papercuts and prints spanning the last six years of the artist’s career, all of which are available to buy.
About
Listen to the World features new works including a series of previously unseen papercuts and screenprints created for and derived from Ryan’s 2016 Rizzoli wall calendar commission; along with a limited edition, multi-coloured lasercut, exclusive to YSP.
The exhibition also features significant works from Ryan’s repertoire, such as There Is Only Time, 2013, the central piece from the artist’s show of the same title at Sims Reed Gallery, London; and The Map Of My Entire Life, 2012, his largest papercut to date, created for Manchester Art Gallery’s touring exhibition, The First Cut. One of Ryan’s greatest known
works to date, Can We? Shall We?, 2010, also features. This large screenprinted version was first shown on London’s Dover Street in Ryan’s solo show, The Stars Shine All Day Too.
Ryan, born in Cyprus, lives and works in London. He studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art in London where he specialised in Printmaking. Although Ryan views himself first and always as a fine artist, his intricate papercut work adapts itself readily to many other mediums including ceramics, textiles, homewares and even jewellery. His work often consists of original figures paired with sentimental, grave, honest and occasionally humorous pieces of writing which he admits are autobiographical.
Ryan has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally and has collaborated with Paul Smith, Liberty of London, Tatty Devine and Vogue, along with many other established brands. Ryan has written and illustrated numerous books including The Invisible Kingdom and The Kingdom Revealed, the first two of a trilogy of books. The final book in Ryan’s trilogy, The Invincible Kingdom, will be published by Random House in October 2015 and accompanied by a talk and book signing at YSP on 30 October. Further special events accompanying the exhibition include an exclusive workshop on 31 October in which participants will have the rare opportunity to work with Rob Ryan and the Ryantown team to produce a limited edition zine to take home. Ryan will also give a talk about his career to date at YSP on 9 July.
