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October half-term

Saturday 25 October - Sunday 2 November 2025, 10am-5pm

Imagine and play with us every day during October half-term! With an array of activities including workshops, Art Pods and Explore & draw kits, it's the perfect opportunity to get creative as a family.

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Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

22 November 2025 – 4 May 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.

The artist and author Edmund de Waal (b.1954, Nottingham) has curated the first major exhibition of acclaimed Danish ceramicist Axel Salto (1889 – 1961), considered one of the greatest masters of 20th-century ceramic art.
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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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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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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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Toddler Tuesdays

Toddler Tuesdays

First Tuesday of the Month, 10.30am - 12pm. £7 for one child with one adult + £2 per additional child/adult

Enjoy a playful morning with your little ones and join specialist early years artists to explore The Hepworth Wakefield. For families with children aged 1 - 4.
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Family Workshop: Autumn Drawing

Family Workshop: Autumn Drawing

Sunday 26, Tuesday 28, Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 October, Sunday 2 November. Drop-in 11am - 4pm (closed for lunch 1 - 1.30pm), FREE with an exhibition ticket

Discover the birds, plants and trees that live in our garden with creative looking and drawing activities. Suitable for families with children aged 2 - 12 years old
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Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus

Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus

22 November 2025 – 4 May 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.

The first major solo exhibition of Kira Freije’s (b. 1985, London) work in the UK. For the exhibition, Freije will create a new body of work comprising around 20 life-size figures which will be arranged in small groupings affecting a society in various states of action.
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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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Future exhibitions

Find out what’s coming up at The Hepworth Wakefield

Our past exhibitions

A guide to our exhibitions programme and collection displays since opening in 2011.

The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 5AW
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