A CONTEMPORARY art installation is back in a York church by popular demand, after more than 35,000 people visited it last year.

International artist Keiko Mukaide's The Memory of Place has opened for a second year, after her art installation at York St Mary's, in Castlegate, York, was well received by critics and the public in its first year.

Mukaide's work uses fire, water, glass, stone and light to complement the historic church. The nave of the church is filled with a pool of water which flows towards the transept of the church, where a suspended column of glass rods is top-lit.

Meanwhile, a new new water sculpture, called Tarantella, has been officially unveiled at Newby Hall, near Ripon.