Surreal Landscapes Family Project
In summer 2024, The Hepworth Wakefield invited families to help choose a selection of artworks from the Jeffrey Sherwin & Family Collection for display in the Forbidden Territories: 100 years of Surreal Landscapes exhibition. Families had the special experience of seeing artworks from the stores with our learning and curatorial teams.
Through creative looking, drawing, making and story-telling, participants discovered the themes, stories and techniques in the artworks. Responses from the children to their chosen artworks are incorporated within the display in the gallery and in a trail around the exhibition.
We would like to thank the families for coming to play and enjoy art with us, and for choosing their selection of artworks.
Funded by an Art Fund Respond & Re-imagine grant.
Best Family Activity Award Winner
The Hepworth Wakefield is thrilled to share that the gallery have won the Best Family Arts Activity Award in the Fantastic for Families Awards 2025 for the Surreal Landscapes Family Programme. This national awards celebrates outstanding opportunities created for families to access creative opportunities and enhance wellbeing through arts and cultural activities.
‘We loved how this project gave families rare, up-close access to artworks — even helping decide how paintings were hung. It’s a brilliant example of genuine co-creation, making the gallery experience imaginative and inclusive for all, and we can see that The Hepworth Wakefield will continue to engage families in the long-term.’ Fantastic for Families judging panel
