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Buddha

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Date: 13 January 2024

Location: York University, 53.9476711,-1.0520271

Information This 19th-century bronze statue of the Buddha is located behind the Berrick Saul Building in the University of York campus. It was donated to the university in 1983 by Mrs Elizabeth Cooper from the collection of her father John Bowes Morrell (1873–1963). Morrell was a historian and writer who served twice as Lord Mayor of York and was a key figure in the campaign to establish a university in the city. The statue had previously been located in the garden of Morrell’s Victorian mansion, Burton Croft, which later became a nursing home and was ultimately demolished by developers Barratt in 2004.

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Daniel Arsham

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Date:
24 August 2023

Location:
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
53.6138489,-1.5692625

Information:
Yorkshire Sculpture Park opened in 1977 and is located in the parklands of the former stately home Bretton Hall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

Daniel Arsham (b. 1980) is a New York-based American artist. Relics in the Landscape is an installation featuring several ‘future relics’ – sculptures embodying themes of archaeology and the passage of time. Two of these are based on pieces housed in the Louvre in Paris: Melpomene (50 BCE), the Greek muse of tragedy, and Venus of Arles (1st century BCE).