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Rhubarb Supper Club

Fri 21 Feb, 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, £50 per person / 10% off for Members

Celebrate Wakefield’s Rhubarb Festival with a fine dining supper club experience at The Hepworth Wakefield Café.

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Rhubarb Afternoon Tea

Sat 22 & Sun 23 Feb 2025, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm, £40 per person / 10% off for Members

Join us in The Hepworth Wakefield Café for our traditional afternoon tea with a rhubarb twist.

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Schools & Colleges: Creative Careers Day

Wed 12 March, 10am - 2.15pm, FREE

Inspire your students to see the possibilities of a career in the creative industries. Suitable for key stage 4 students.

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Surrealism Supper Club

Fri 21 March, 5.30pm and 6.30pm, £35 per person / 10% off for Members

Join us for a supper club in celebration of our major exhibition Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes.

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Mother's Day Afternoon Tea

Sun 30 March 2025, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm

Treat a loved one to Mother’s Day afternoon tea at The Hepworth Wakefield.

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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures

17 May - 27 October 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.

British artist Helen Chadwick (1953 – 1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the ‘traditional’ or ‘beautiful’ in art history. This major retrospective will be the first in over 25 years, and will chart the development of Chadwick’s art from her renowned degree show piece In the Kitchen (1977) through to her Piss Flowers (1991–2).

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Caroline Walker: Mothering

17 May 2025 - 2 November 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.

This exhibition will bring together works made over the past five years with new paintings Caroline Walker will make for the exhibition exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care.

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Kira Freije

November 2025 – 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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Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

November 2025 – 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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