Our past exhibitions
Magic in this Country: Hepworth, Moore and the Land
Exhibitions
20 January 2023 - 18 February 2024
Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore both grew up in Yorkshire and claimed the landscape as a formative artistic influence.
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A Living Collection
Exhibitions
14 January 2023 - 4 February 2024
This exhibition showcases new acquisitions to the collection from recent years, from Surrealist sculpture to contemporary assemblage, revealing a conversation across time and media around the human body and its interactions in the world.
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Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings
Exhibitions
26 May – 5 November 2023
‘One of Britain’s finest living painters’ ★★★★★ The Telegraph.
‘The opportunity to see the evolution of Anderson’s exploration of the barbershop setting in one space is exceptional.’ ★★★★★ The Guardian.
This large solo exhibition will focus on the Barbershop series as a lens through which to understand Hurvin Anderson’s wider practice and key concerns of memory, identity and nationhood.
‘The opportunity to see the evolution of Anderson’s exploration of the barbershop setting in one space is exceptional.’ ★★★★★ The Guardian.
This large solo exhibition will focus on the Barbershop series as a lens through which to understand Hurvin Anderson’s wider practice and key concerns of memory, identity and nationhood.
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Hurvin Anderson Curates
Exhibitions
26 May – 5 November 2023
Alongside the Barbershop exhibition, Hurvin Anderson will curate a display of paintings drawn from public collections in the UK to take visitors on a journey through his formative influences and highlight the importance of art historical references in his work
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If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022
Exhibitions
31 March – 15 October 2023
This exhibition will present the outcomes of a significant research project, Hepworth’s Progeny, hosted by The Hepworth Wakefield (2021-23) in collaboration with art historian Griselda Pollock and sculptor Lorna Green.
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Hannah Starkey: In Real Life
Exhibitions
21 October 2022 - 1 May 2023
The Hepworth Wakefield will present the first major survey of British photographer Hannah Starkey, tracing the development of her work across two decades.
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Daisie Jacobs
Exhibitions
28 September 2022 – end-April 2023
Through the mediums of moving image and photography, Daisie Jacobs works with themes of the physical human form; the obscured; and the less frequented underside of life.
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Jadé Fadojutimi: Can we see the colour green because we have a name for it?
Exhibitions
16 September 2022 - 19 March 2023
The Hepworth Wakefield will present an exhibition of new work by British artist Jadé Fadojutimi (b. 1993).
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Into Abstraction
Exhibitions
11 March 2022 - 8 January 2023
This exhibition will explore how, after initially finding success with figurative carvings in the 1920s and early 1930s, Barbara Hepworth developed a distinctive abstract practice that aimed ‘to discover some absolute essence in sculptural terms giving the quality of human relationships.’
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When Dreams Confront Reality: The Sherwin Collection
11 March 2022 - 8 January 2023
This exhibition is drawn from the Sherwin Collection, arguably the most important privately-owned collection of British Surrealism. The collection has now found a permanent home at The Hepworth Wakefield, greatly enhancing Wakefield’s holdings of Surrealist art.
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