Research

Collaboration is at the heart of our research programme. The Henry Moore Institute manages the sculpture collection and archive of Leeds Museums and Galleries, a partnership that has built one of the strongest public collections of sculpture in Britain. We encourage researchers to explore this specialist collection that offers unrivalled opportunities for primary research.

The Henry Moore Foundation has jointly funded a number of initiatives intended to consolidate primary resources for the study of sculpture that have been undertaken in partnership with the Institute. Highlights of these initiatives include:

Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951: a comprehensive study of sculptors, related businesses and trades investigated in the context of creative collaborations, art infrastructures, professional networks and cultural geographies.

The Artists’ Papers Register: a research project offering on-line information about the location of artists’ archives in Britain.

Artists’ Lives series: a growing collection of live recordings with sculptors forming a part of the National Life Stories collection at the British Library Sound Archive.

The Conway Library database of images of twentieth-century British sculpture: a teaching and research collection held at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

The Gunnis Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 revision project: a biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain.

For more information about any of these collaborations please contact Kirstie Gregory, Research Programme Assistant: kirstie@henry-moore.org