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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures
17 May - 26 October 2025. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.
One of 'the exhibitions you must see in 2025' Art Fund
This major retrospective - the first in over 25 years - will chart the development of Chadwick’s art from her renowned degree show piece In the Kitchen (1977) through to her Piss Flowers (1991–2).
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Caroline Walker: Mothering
17 May - 26 October 2025. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.
Caroline Walker: Mothering will bring together works made over the past five years with new paintings Walker will make for the exhibition exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care.
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Explore & Draw Stations
Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm during term time / Monday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm during the Wakefield holidays (including bank holidays), FREE with an exhibition ticket

Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels
8 March 2025 - 22 February 2026. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red – Saved for the Nation
Saturday 27 September 2025 - March 2026. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

Explore & Draw Kits
Available Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures
17 May - 26 October 2025. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.
One of 'the exhibitions you must see in 2025' Art Fund
This major retrospective - the first in over 25 years - will chart the development of Chadwick’s art from her renowned degree show piece In the Kitchen (1977) through to her Piss Flowers (1991–2).

Caroline Walker: Mothering
17 May - 26 October 2025. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.
Caroline Walker: Mothering will bring together works made over the past five years with new paintings Walker will make for the exhibition exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care.

The Hepworth Family Gift / Hepworth At Work
On permanent display. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

The Hepworth Wakefield Garden
Open daily, FREE entry

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures Symposium
Friday 24 October, 10am - 5pm, £40 / £35 (price includes exhibition entry and lunch)

House of (Coffee) Makers
Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 October, 10am-5pm, FREE
Future exhibitions
Find out what’s coming up at The Hepworth Wakefield
Our past exhibitions
A guide to our ambitious, world-class exhibitions programme and collection displays since opening in 2011.