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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.

★★★★ The Guardian
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.

'The stunning parenting paintings every mother should see.' ★★★★★ The Guardian

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

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

Borrow looking tools, handling objects and drawing materials to discover the exhibitions and create your own works of art. Suitable for all ages, including adults.
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Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

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.

A survey exhibition of one of Britain’s foremost ceramicists, Elizabeth Fritsch (b.1940). The exhibition will bring together over 100 works made between the 1970s and 2013 drawn largely from the artist’s own rarely-seen private collection. It will explore Fritsch’s extraordinary forms, techniques and influences across four decades of her career.
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Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red – Saved for the Nation

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.

Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, 1943, by Barbara Hepworth, acquired for the nation following the success of a £3.8 million public appeal led by Art Fund and The Hepworth Wakefield, will go on public display for the first time at the gallery this September.
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Explore & Draw Kits

Explore & Draw Kits

Available Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket

Discover artworks in the galleries and garden using our Explore and Draw kits. Suitable for families with children aged 2 - 12 years old.

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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures

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.

★★★★ The Guardian
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).
More Info
Caroline Walker: Mothering

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.

'The stunning parenting paintings every mother should see.' ★★★★★ The Guardian

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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The Hepworth Family Gift / Hepworth At Work

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 Family Gift consists of 44 full size, rarely seen working models - surviving prototypes in plaster and aluminium made in preparation for the works in bronze Hepworth executed from the mid-1950s to the end of her career.
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The Hepworth Wakefield Garden

The Hepworth Wakefield Garden

Open daily, FREE entry

The Hepworth Wakefield Garden, designed by internationally acclaimed landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith, is open daily and free for all to enjoy.
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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures Symposium

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures Symposium

Friday 24 October, 10am - 5pm, £40 / £35 (price includes exhibition entry and lunch)

A one-day symposium exploring the life, work and influence of British sculptor, photographer and installation artist Helen Chadwick (1953 -1996).
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House of (Coffee) Makers

House of (Coffee) Makers

Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 October, 10am-5pm, FREE

Join us at The Hepworth Wakefield for a weekend celebrating the art of coffee. Whether you’re a coffee lover or coffee curious, discover our handpicked selection of stalls selling beans to freshly grind, brewing essentials, ceramics, chocolate, pastries and more.
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Future exhibitions

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Our past exhibitions

A guide to our ambitious, world-class exhibitions programme and collection displays since opening in 2011.

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