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Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes

23 November 2024 - 21 April 2025. Exhibition entry is £14 / £12.50 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

Forbidden Territories will mark 100 years of ‘Surrealism’, since its origins in 1924 with the publication of the ‘Surrealist Manifesto’ by the poet and critic André Breton. Surrealism has become one of the most influential artistic, intellectual and literary movements of the 20th Century, and continues to inspire artists working today.

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Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents

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

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Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

Opening 8 March 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.

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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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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The Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair

Sat 15 & Sun 16 March 2025. In advance: £2.50 fair only / £8.50 fair and exhibitions / On the day: £3.50 fair only / £10 fair and exhibitions / FREE for Members and under 18s

The Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair – the go-to place to buy affordable art and explore all things print – returns this spring. Discover over 60 artists and galleries from across the UK plus family activities, street food and discounted exhibition entry.

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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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Family Workshop: Soap Carving

Fri 27, Sat 28, Sun 29, Mon 30, Tue 31 Dec, Wed 1, Thur 2, Fri 3, Sat 4, Sun 5 Jan. Drop-in 11am-3.45 (closed for lunch 1-1.30pm)

Inspired by Hepworth’s carved sculptures try making your own creative carved artwork using soap. Suitable for families with children aged 2–12.

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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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Garden Play

Every Sat and Sun during term time (April - late-Oct)/ Every day in the Wakefield school holidays (April - October), 11am - 4pm, FREE.

Come and play in The Hepworth Wakefield Garden. Stack, build, experiment, draw and imagine with your family in the open air. No need to book, just turn up and play!

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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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