In August 1997, what looked like a rocky outcrop suddenly appeared on a hillside above Wakefield. This, it turned out, was not geology but art: a piece called ence pence by the American sculptor, Ursula von Rydingsvard, who has died aged 84. She had a second, bigger show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2014.
Like most of Von Rydingsvard’s work, ence pence was large: two metres high and wide by five metres long. For all its stone-like appearance, it was made of wood. “Being big doesn’t mean being invulnerable,” Von Rydingsvard said.
