Latest news with #sculpturepark

Times

Rachel Whiteread — ‘A home for old YBAs? There'd be great art and big egos'

I'm walking through woodland on a clear spring day and as the trees give way to a wildflower meadow, a staircase rises from the earth into a bright blue sky. Next to it is another identical set of stairs, inverted and heading downwards to form a V-shape with its companion. The sculpture is intentionally disorientating like an Escher print in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. It is one of several works by Rachel Whiteread in the grounds of Goodwood House on the Sussex Downs, installed as part of a new sculpture park that opens at the end of this month. Like much of Whiteread's work, the staircase exudes a ghostly presence. It was cast from the space underneath the stairs in