Showing: Exhibitions
Wakefield: A Contemporary Collection
On display from Sat 5 Oct 2019
Wakefield Art Gallery opened in 1932 housing a collection established with the aim ‘to keep in touch with modern art, in its relations to modern life’. Since opening in 2011, The Hepworth Wakefield has maintained this tradition of supporting artists. The gallery continues to grow the collection and encourage emerging and established talent, building on Hepworth's legacy of artistic ambition and inspiration in Wakefield.
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Christina Quarles
19 October 2019 - 19 January 2020
The Hepworth Wakefield will present the first solo exhibition in a European museum by American artist Christina Quarles.
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Barbara Hepworth
On permanent display, free entry
This exhibition provides a survey of Hepworth’s extraordinary career, from early wood carvings to iconic stringed sculptures and polished bronzes from the 1970s.
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The Hepworth Family Gift / Hepworth At Work
On permanent display, free entry
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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Alan Davie & David Hockney: Early Works
19 October 2019 - 19 January 2020
This major new exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield will bring together around 45 paintings and works on paper by Alan Davie and David Hockney, many of which have not been seen publicly for decades.
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James Bywood Prints at The Hepworth Café
May 2019 - Jan 2020, 10am - 5pm, FREE entry
Visit the The Hepworth Café and see a new exhibition of work by printmaker James Bywood.
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A Contemporary Collection: Sculpture & Materials
On permanent display, free entry
The works on display in this exhibition have been selected from Wakefield's art collection to reveal the wide variety of materials artists have used to express sculptural ideas – through abstraction and figuration, and from the early twentieth century up to the present day.
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Bill Brandt / Henry Moore
07 Feb - 31 May 2020
This exhibition explores the parallel and intersecting paths of these two great artists of the 20th century.
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Sheila Hicks
19 Jun - 4 Oct 2020
Sheila Hicks (b.USA, 1934) is one of the world’s foremost artists and sculptors working with textiles, fibre, colour and form.
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Hannah Starkey
23 Oct 2020 - 24 Jan 2021
The Hepworth Wakefield will present the first major survey of British photographer Hannah Starkey, tracing the development of her work across two decades.
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