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Art Pod

Art Pod

Every Saturday during term time / Every Monday, Friday* and Saturday during the Wakefield school holidays, drop-in 11am - 4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket

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.
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Family Workshop: Soap Carving

Family Workshop: Soap Carving

Sunday 28 June, Sunday 23, Tuesday 25, Thursday 27 August, drop-in 11am-4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket

Inspired by Hepworth’s carved sculptures try making your own creative carved artwork using soap.
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Family Workshop: Hepworth Hats

Family Workshop: Hepworth Hats

Wednesday 26 August, drop-in 11am - 4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket.

Transform yourself into a sculpture! Explore the galleries and draw Barbara Hepworth-inspired shapes before making a wearable sculpture hat from colourful card and string.
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Slow Down - Creative Wellbeing Workshops

Slow Down - Creative Wellbeing Workshops

Every fourth Wednesday of the month*, 10.15 - 11.45am, FREE

Slow down, look and connect at The Hepworth Wakefield. Spend time looking and drawing in the gallery with guided exercises.
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Dementia-friendly Creative Café

Dementia-friendly Creative Café

Every fourth Wednesday of the month, 1.30 - 3.30pm, FREE

The Hepworth Wakefield invites people living with dementia, their carers, friends and family to talk, make and imagine with us inspired by our exhibitions and art collection. No need to book, just drop in.
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Brush Making Workshop with Function & Form

Brush Making Workshop with Function & Form

Saturday 29 August, 10am and 1.30pm, £75

Work with Form & Function to learn how to bind plant fibres into brooms using a traditional binding technique.
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Family Workshop: Sculpt in Ink

Family Workshop: Sculpt in Ink

Sunday 7 June, Sunday 30 August, drop-in 11am - 4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket

Explore Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures and transform an ink and string print into a Hepworth-style paper sculpture to take home. 
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Curators' Talk: Mrinalini Mukherjee

Curators' Talk: Mrinalini Mukherjee

Saturday 5 September, 2pm, £20 / £18 / Members £10 - price includes exhibition entry

Join The Hepworth Wakefield’s Artistic Director Laura Smith in conversation with exhibition Co-Curator Tarini Malik as they share their insight into Mrinalini Mukherjee: Unbound Forms – Women Sculptors of India and Bangladesh. 
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House of Makers: Yorkshire Pantry

House of Makers: Yorkshire Pantry

Sunday 6 September, 10am - 5pm, FREE

Join us in The Hepworth Wakefield Garden to stock-up on fresh produce, groceries, provisions and store cupboard essentials from some of our favourite Yorkshire providers. 
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Family Workshop: Sculpture Creatures

Family Workshop: Sculpture Creatures

Sunday 6 September, Sunday 25, Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 October, drop-in 11am - 4pm

Make your own imaginary creature inspired by the sculptures in the Mrinalini Mukherjee exhibition. Roll, shape and press into plasticine, add shapes, string and textures to make a fun character to take home.
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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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