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Friday 10 July, from 11am

In the opening week of  A Place Apart – the Elisabeth Frink Studio, Peter Murray CBE, Founder and Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, recounts memories of Elisabeth Frink and discusses her legacy with Johnny Messum.

Peter Murray CBE founded the Sculpture Park in 1977 with a single grant of £1,000 and an exhibition of 31 sculptures. Since then some of the major exhibitions he has organised at Yorkshire Sculpture Park include Elisabeth Frink, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Andy Goldsworthy, which won the South Bank Show Award for Visual Arts.

He was awarded the title of OBE in 1996 for services to the arts, and the title of CBE in 2010.