Seizure Gallery
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
A new gallery for Roger Hiorns' artwork 'Seizure'
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‘Adam Khan’s collaboration with artist Roger Hiorns was exemplary. Building a new home for Hiorns’ landmark sculpture was a challenging undertaking. Adam and his team responded with great sensitivity and daring, imagining a new structure for Seizure that offers a perfectly gauged balance between exterior and interior, between modesty and magic.’
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Project Details
- Seizure Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2012–2013
- Project: A new gallery for Roger Hiorns' artwork 'Seizure'
- Client: Arts Council Collection
- Status: Built
Awards
- RIBA National Award 2014, Winner
The new gallery is an integral part of the re-framing of this celebrated artwork in a new context, exploring issues of the sublime, the picturesque and the failure of utopian housing projects.
The siting on the threshold between park and service yard, and re-interpretation of the local precedent of inhabited garden wall with a contemporary ‘as-found’ construction system together give an infrastructural feel. This quiet background quality is undercut with instability - the building can be demounted and this is clearly articulated.
Details are at once ruthlessly practical and charged with meaning: the threshold sequence allowing adjustment to the darkness but rehearsing ideas of grotto. Shimmed gaps between panels allow natural ventilation to the crystals but produce a dramatic light and a heightened acoustic awareness. The pre-cast is at once raw, expedient and carefully refined.
Commissioners
- Artangel
- Jerwood Charitable Foundation
Collaborators
- Greenway Associates
- Max Fordham & Partners
- Price & Myers
Contractor Wood Mitchell Construction
Supplier BarCon Precast Ltd
Photography
- David Grandorge
- Lewis Khan
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Credit: Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Filmmaker William Simpson. Produced by Omni Pictures
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