Exhibitions | The Hepworth Wakefield

Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here?

24 November 2023 – 2 June 2024. 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.

Andrew Cranston will hold his first solo exhibition in a UK public institution this November at The Hepworth Wakefield. The exhibition will feature new and recent paintings, focusing on Cranston’s works post 2016.

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Magic in this Country: Hepworth, Moore and the Land

20 January 2023 - January 2024. 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.

Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore both grew up in Yorkshire and claimed the landscape as a formative artistic influence.

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The Art of the Potter: Ceramics and Sculpture from 1930 to Now

14 January 2023 - January 2024. 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.

This exhibition will celebrate Wakefield’s progressive approach to collecting ceramics since the 1930s and will shine a light on artists exploring the sculptural possibilities of this versatile medium.

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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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A Living Collection

14 January 2023 - January 2024. 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.

This exhibition showcases new acquisitions to the collection from recent years, from Surrealist sculpture to contemporary assemblage, revealing a conversation across time and media around the human body and its interactions in the world.

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Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light

24 November 2023 – 2 June 2024. 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.

This major survey exhibition will explore the career of British-Singaporean artist, Kim Lim.

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Shenece Oretha: TOLLED Listening With/In Wakefield’s Sculpture Collection

28 October 2023 – March 2024. 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.

London-based multi-media artist Shenece Oretha has been commissioned to create an intervention inspired by Wakefield’s art collection.

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Ronald Moody: His Universe

21 June - 3 November 2024. 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.

Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century and yet, there have not been any comprehensive exhibitions or monographs of his work to date. This major exhibition will explore the development of Moody’s art as well as his contribution and impact on British and international art history.

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Igshaan Adams

21 June - 3 November 2024. 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 new exhibition by South African artist Igshaan Adams, featuring his cross-disciplinary work that encompasses weaving, sculpture and installation.

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Louise Giovanelli

21 November 2024 - 27 April 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.

Louise Giovanelli is a Manchester-based artist, who is known for her large-scale meditative paintings that capture ephemeral and sensual moments using beautifully crafted textures and vivid beguiling colour. Giovanelli will be creating a new body of work for this solo exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield.

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Showing: Exhibitions

Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here?

Magic in this Country: Hepworth, Moore and the Land

The Art of the Potter: Ceramics and Sculpture from 1930 to Now

The Hepworth Family Gift / Hepworth At Work

A Living Collection

Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light

Shenece Oretha: TOLLED Listening With/In Wakefield’s Sculpture Collection

Ronald Moody: His Universe

Igshaan Adams

Louise Giovanelli