
Teachers' resources
Find out more about what's on at The Hepworth during your visit, and the resources that you can use to support your visit to the gallery.
Teacher-led resources at the gallery
We have a range of teacher-led resources that you can use to support your visit to The Hepworth and enhance your students’ explorations of the gallery and garden.
Borrow our Exploring Art Kits to creatively explore the artworks. Discover what you can see, hear and smell with your own Garden Sketchbooks. Go on a journey through the gallery with Reg, our Sensory Snake.

Exploring Art Kits, KS1 - KS4
£10 to hire a set for 33 students
Borrow our Exploring Art Kits and support students to discover artworks, discuss ideas and draw creatively in the galleries. Kits include activity cards, clipboards, drawing materials, looking tools and handling objects.
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Garden Sketchbooks, KS1 & KS2
50p per sketchbook
Our Garden Sketchbooks help pupils to discover what they can see, hear and smell in our garden and to look closely for the plants, shapes and patterns they can find.
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Sensory Snake, EYFS
Free to hire
Borrow Reg, our sensory snake, to guide your group on a journey through the galleries. Made from lots of different textures Reg support’s children to explore their sense of touch with shapes and objects in his tummy to feel.
Read MoreCancellation policy for teacher-led resources: Cancellation of resources must be made more than 14 days before the date of your visit (not including the date of the visit). If cancelled more than 14 days in advance, you will receive a full refund. Cancellations made within the 14-day period will be liable for the full cost of the booking, however if you rearrange your visit within the academic year we are happy to honour your resource booking for the rearranged date.
To make a cancellation, please contact email learning@hepworthwakefield.org with Cancellation in the subject of the email.
Exhibition notes for secondary school students
Download our exhibition notes for KS4 students to help them explore key themes, artists and artworks within the exhibitions. Includes prompts to look closely, think critically and draw in creative ways.

Elizabeth Fritsch exhibition notes
Download our notes on our exhibition Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels to discover Fritsch’s unique ceramic pots and the processes, patterns and presentation of them.
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Audio guide to The Hepworth Wakefield by Katy Hessel
Listen to Katy Hessel guide you around 10 works in Wakefield’s art collection by women and gender non-conforming artists.
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Current and upcoming exhibitions
Be inspired by world-class art and our exciting programme of exhibitions at the gallery.

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures
17 May - 27 October 2025
Discover the innovative and unconventional work of artist Helen Chadwick in this major retrospective. Explore how Chadwick used materials in unexpected ways, incorporating meat, flowers, chocolate and compost into her sculpture and photography.
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Caroline Walker: Mothering
17 May - 27 October 2025
Explore the paintings of artist Caroline Walker which capture everyday lives of women and the themes of motherhood and early-years care.
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Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels
8 March 25 - Spring 2026
Discover over 100 works by one of Britain’s most important ceramicists, Elizabeth Fritsch. Explore the unique forms and colourful geometric surface patterns within her pots, which often create optical illusions.
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The Hepworth Family Gift and Hepworth At Work
On permanent display
Be inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s studio environment, her tools and materials, and a unique collection of the artist’s large-scale prototypes for her sculptures.
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A Living Collection
15 February 2025 - Spring 2026
Spend time with key works from Wakefield’s Art Collection, including new works that have entered the collection in the last 18 months that continue to help the collection nurture an understanding of contemporary art and its relationship to modern life.
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Resonant Forms
8 March 2025 - Spring 2026
Discover how artists across generations have been inspired by music and sound, engaging with themes of rhythm, harmony, and resonance. Centred on Barbara Hepworth’s stringed sculptures, the exhibition explores the relationship between sound and form.
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The Hepworth Wakefield Garden
Open daily, all year
Our garden offers a great space to continue your group’s learning throughout the seasons, exploring the planting, nature and sculptures outside
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Plan your visit to the gallery

Plan your visit
Useful info to plan your visit including risk assessments and guidelines
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Teacher-led visits
More info about teacher-led visits to the gallery
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Artist-led workshops
Find out about our workshops that you can book as part of your visit
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