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Sheila Hicks: Off Grid

7 April - 25 September 2022. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

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Sheila Hicks is one of the world’s foremost artists investigating colour, form and texture. Drawing together over 70 works from international public and private collections, this major exhibition explores the many facets of Hicks’ ground-breaking work.

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The Hepworth Wakefield Garden

Open daily, FREE entry

The Hepworth Wakefield Garden, designed by internationally acclaimed landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith, is free for all to enjoy.

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Prafulla Mohanti: Full Circle

7 April - 4 September 2022. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

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When Dreams Confront Reality: The Sherwin Collection

11 March 2022 - January 2023. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

This exhibition is drawn from the Sherwin Collection, arguably the most important privately-owned collection of British Surrealism. The collection has now found a permanent home at The Hepworth Wakefield, greatly enhancing Wakefield’s holdings of Surrealist art.

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Into Abstraction

11 March 2022 - January 2023. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

This exhibition will explore how, after initially finding success with figurative carvings in the 1920s and early 1930s, Barbara Hepworth developed a distinctive abstract practice that aimed ‘to discover some absolute essence in sculptural terms giving the quality of human relationships.’

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A Living Collection

11 March 2022 - January 2023. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

This exhibition will showcase a number of important acquisitions made over the last two years, which will be displayed at the gallery for the very first time.

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Emii Alrai: A Core of Scar - Future Collect Commission

7 April – 4 September 2022. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

Artist Emii Alrai will present a new commission at The Hepworth Wakefield as part of iniva's Future Collect programme. The commission investigates physical markers of the past, weaving together body, landscape and object as sites of memory.

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In The Garden

7 April - 25 September 2022. This exhibition is on display in The Hepworth Wakefield Café and is free to view.

In The Garden, a new exhibition on display in our café, brings together seven artists - Sarah Abbott, Clare Curtis, Helen Riddle, Helen Thomas, Tony Wade, Studio Wald and Ellie Way - who have captured the garden in their work.

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The Hepworth Family Gift / Hepworth At Work

On permanent display. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / 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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Sheila Hicks: Off Grid

7 April - 25 September 2022. Exhibition entry is £12 / £10 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

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Garden Play

Saturdays, 11am-4pm. Plus, Sun 12 Jun, 11am-4pm.

Come and play in The Hepworth Wakefield Garden.
Suitable for families with children aged 0-12 years old.
FREE, Drop in.

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Art Pod

Fri & Sat in Wakefield school holidays (except Fri 3 June) / Sat during Term time, 11am-4pm (closed for lunch 1-1.30pm). Drop in

Visit the galleries with your family and join us at the Art Pod to make your own artwork inspired by what you see. Suitable for families with children aged 2-12 years old. FREE with an exhibition ticket

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