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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.
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