Release date: 21 May 2018

A Frieze for Leeds: Imagining a Sculptural Façade for Leeds Art Gallery in 1968

13 June – 2 September 2018

In 1968 the exhibition Three Ideas for Sculpture proposed a new sculpture for the exterior of Leeds Art Gallery, intended to revive the then eighty-year-old Victorian building. Artists Neville Boden (1929-96), Hubert Dalwood (1924-76) and Austin Wright (1922-2003) were selected to propose a frieze to be installed across the 40-metre façade and Arts Council England provided funding for the production of drawings and models.

Release date: 3 April 2018

Henry Moore Archive opens for research

In 2014, the Henry Moore Archive underwent major redevelopment to install climate-controlled stores and a beautifully appointed reading room. After two years of condition checking, location cataloguing and digitisation of our extensive holdings, this impressive new facility is now open. It will provide researchers with access to our comprehensive collections of publications, correspondence and photographs relating to Henry Moore.

Release date: 21 February 2018

Out of the Block: Henry Moore Carvings

30 March – 28 October 2018

120 years after Moore's birth, the Henry Moore Foundation presents Out of the Block: Henry Moore Carvings, an exhibition exploring Moore's changing approach to this key element of his artistic practice.

Out of the Block brings together nearly 30 major works in stone and wood, made over six decades, from the Foundation's collection. They trace Moore's development as an artist and a carver and reveal his influences at different moments in his career.

Release date: 21 February 2018

The Sculpture Collections

22 March – 2 September 2018

The Sculpture Collections joins the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery in one of our most expansive and ambitious displays to date. Celebrating a thirty-six year partnership that has built one of the strongest collections of British sculpture in the world, this exhibition showcases the best of the Leeds Sculpture Collections.

With over 125 works spanning fourteen exhibition spaces, The Sculpture Collections tells a story of sculpture as a contested and changing medium. Crossing disciplinary and generational boundaries, it includes works from the eighteenth-century to the present day.

Release date: 19 January 2018

Henry Moore Foundation welcomes new Head of Enterprise and two new trustees

The Henry Moore Foundation has recruited Clare Tomlinson to fulfil the role of Head of Enterprise and recently welcomed two new trustees, Martin Barden and Pam Raynor. Rebecca Land, Head of Communications since 2012, has taken on an expanded role as Head of Marketing & Communications.

Release date: 6 December 2017

Sculpture by Another Name: Tony Carter's 'By Bread Only' (1978-9)

21 February – 20 May 2018

The Henry Moore Institute's latest Gallery 4 exhibition presents a major work by the sculptor Tony Carter (1943-2016) which has recently entered the Leeds Museums and Galleries Collection, 'By Bread Only - For the Demise of Icons' (1978-9).

Release date: 13 September 2017

Henry Moore Institute announces New Senior Team

The Henry Moore Foundation's Leeds venue has recruited Laurence Sillars to the new post of Head of Exhibitions. He will work alongside Dr Jon Wood, who becomes Head of Research. The new senior structure comes at a time when the Institute has ambitious plans to expand its curatorial and research programmes through the establishment of a new Sculpture Triennial developed with Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle partners.

Release date: 29 August 2017

David Dye: Devices

13 Oct 2017 – 18 Feb 2018

David Dye: Devices showcases the archive of David Dye, an artist who was at the heart of the radical changes taking place in British sculpture during the 1960s and 70s. This exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute focuses on the dynamic first decade of his career, tracking how Dye's work in photography and film developed out of his interest in sculpture.

Release date: 22 August 2017

Mary Gillick: Her Art in your Pocket

20 Sep 2017 – 28 Jan 2018

Trained as a sculptor at Nottingham School of Art and the Royal College of Art, Mary Gillick (1881-1965) won a competition in 1952 that would see her sculpture in everyone's pocket: her portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was chosen for British and Commonwealth coinage. It remained in circulation until decimalisation in 1971. This display is the first dedicated to Gillick's sculpture, and presents plaster models, drawings and photographs showing her working processes for the production of coins, medals and plaques.

Release date: 14 July 2017

Major funding boost for Yorkshire sculpture

Four world-class art galleries, including two Art Fund Museum of the Year winners, which form the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle have secured funding of £750,000 for a groundbreaking new project - 'Yorkshire Sculpture International'.

Release date: 13 June 2017

Jiro Takamatsu: The Temperature of Sculpture

13 July – 22 October 2017

This summer the Henry Moore Institute presents the first institutional solo exhibition of Jiro Takamatsu to take place outside his home country of Japan, celebrating the work of this leading figure of post-war art. Through over seventy sculptures, drawings and documents loaned from collections in Japan, USA and Europe, the exhibition traces Takamatsu's artistic practice through his exhibition history, focusing on works from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.

Release date: 9 March 2017

Becoming Henry Moore

14 Apr 2017 – 18 Feb 2018

Planned to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Henry Moore Foundation, the exhibition Becoming Henry Moore charts the artist's creative trajectory between 1914 and 1930, from gifted schoolboy to established sculptor.

Release date: 18 January 2017

Aleksandra Domanović: Votives

23 March – 11 June 2017

The Henry Moore Institute's 2017 sculpture commission presents new sculpture by Berlin-based artist Aleksandra Domanović (b. 1981) responding directly to the Institute's building. Alongside a major new commission, Votives brings together a series of existing works that take their cue from classical Greek votive statues.

Release date: 10 November 2016

Henry Moore Foundation Collection Programme 2017

Items from the Henry Moore Foundation collection feature in a number of external exhibitions in the UK and overseas in 2017.

Release date: 26 October 2016

Henry Moore Institute 2017 Programme Highlights

The Henry Moore Institute's 2017 exhibition programme brings an incredible range of international sculpture to our free entry venue in central Leeds. Highlights include Roy Ascott: Form has Behaviour, Aleksandra Domanović, Ghisha Koenig: Machines Restrict their Movement, Jirō Takamatsu: The Temperature of Sculpture, Mary Gillick: Her Art in your Pocket, David Dye: Devices, and Becoming Henry Moore.

Release date: 25 October 2016

City Sculpture Projects 1972

24 Nov 2016 – 19 Feb 2017

Sculpture was talk of the town in Britain in the summer of 1972. It was being interrogated, debated, written about and photographed - and regularly appeared in regional and national newspapers, often with damning criticism and complaint. This was down to the City Sculpture Project, a hugely ambitious public sculpture scheme that supported the commissioning of large-scale works.