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Family Workshop: Summer Drawing

Family Workshop: Summer Drawing

Sunday 21 June, Sunday 16, Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19, Thursday 20 August, drop-in 11am - 4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket

Move through the learning studio to create a 'garden of drawings' featuring birds, plants and trees.
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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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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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The Hepworth Wakefield Harvest Festival

The Hepworth Wakefield Harvest Festival

Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September 2026, 10am - 5pm, £2.50 in advance / £3.50 on the day

Celebrate the start of autumn in the company of some of the UK's finest independent designers, makers, store owners and producers.
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Tom Stuart-Smith & Katy Merrington in Conversation

Tom Stuart-Smith & Katy Merrington in Conversation

Friday 9 October, 2.30pm, £25 / £23 / Members £15

Landscape architect and designer of The Hepworth Wakefield Garden, Tom Stuart-Smith will be in conversation with the gallery's Cultural Gardener, Katy Merrington.
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House of Coffee Makers

House of Coffee Makers

Saturday 31 October & Sunday 1 November, 10am - 5pm, FREE

Join us at The Hepworth Wakefield for a weekend celebrating the art of coffee. Whether you’re a coffee lover or coffee curious, discover our handpicked selection of stalls selling beans to freshly grind, brewing essentials, ceramics, chocolate, pastries and more.
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Ida Ekblad: WORLD'S LARGEST METAPHOR

Ida Ekblad: WORLD'S LARGEST METAPHOR

21 November 2026 – 3 May 2027, FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents & under 18s

Ida Ekblad (b. 1980, Oslo) is one of the most compelling artists working today. Based in Oslo, Norway, her work spans multiple mediums, often blurring the lines between painting and sculpture.
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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.

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