The Hepworth Wakefield Teachers' resources

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.

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.

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.

Be inspired by world-class art and our exciting programme of collection displays and exhibitions at the gallery.

Discover sculptor Kim Lim and explore a variety of media including printmaking and 3D work from colourful wooden and metal sculptures to minimalist works in marble and stone.

Explore the paintings of Andrew Cranston, whose focus on familiar everyday scenes including still life, interiors, portraits and landscapes create a strong sense of place.

Explore the theme of Still Lives through painting, sculpture, photography and ceramics and see how artists have found inspiration in everyday objects across different periods of art history.

Delve into Barbara Hepworth’s studio environment, her tools and materials, and a unique collection of her working models and sculptural prototypes.