Release date: 9 October 2020

Celebrating 100 years since Henry Moore started studying sculpture in Leeds

The Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Arts University are marking 100 years since Yorkshire's own Henry Moore started studying sculpture, the first step on his journey to becoming a world renowned artist.

The anniversary coincides with the unveiling of a set of the artist's notebooks that will be shown in public for the first time at the Henry Moore Institute from Tuesday 13 October 2020.

Release date: 14 September 2020

Celebrating 80 years of Henry Moore in Hertfordshire

Marking the 80th anniversary of Henry Moore's move to Perry Green, in 1940.

Release date: 31 July 2020

Henry Moore Foundation awards £60,000 in rapid-response to artists across the UK amid the Covid-19 pandemic

The Henry Moore Foundation has shown its on-going commitment to the future of sculpture with the announcement of its new Artist Award Scheme. As a response to the pressures brought about by the current Covid-19 pandemic, the Foundation has allocated more than £60,000 of funding and resources to directly assist 40 artists at a time when other sources of income might no longer be available.

Release date: 15 July 2020

Henry Moore Institute to reopen Tuesday 1 September 2020

The Henry Moore Institute, the centre for sculpture in Leeds will reopen to the public on 1 September 2020 after a temporary closure of more than five months due to Covid-19.

Release date: 17 June 2020

Henry Moore Studios & Gardens to reopen on Saturday 4 July 2020

4 July – 1 November 2020

The home of sculptor Henry Moore in the magnificent Hertfordshire countryside is set to reopen to the public on Saturday 4 July following a three-month delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Release date: 7 April 2020

This Living Hand: Edmund de Waal presents Henry Moore

31 March – 31 October 2021

Innovative exhibition, encouraging visitors to touch sculpture, will now open in 2021

Release date: 12 March 2020

Henry Moore. Opposition of Masses

23 May – 13 September 2020

This event is postponed until further notice

Release date: 27 January 2020

Exhibition curated by Edmund De Waal will encourage visitors to touch works by Henry Moore

3 April – 25 October 2020

The acclaimed artist and author, Edmund de Waal, has curated an exhibition of works by Henry Moore in which visitors will be encouraged to touch some of the sculptures. Entitled This Living Hand: Edmund de Waal Presents Henry Moore, the exhibition will focus on the role of touch and the hand in Henry Moore's art and will also include a series of original sculptures.

Release date: 21 January 2020

Paloma Varga Weisz: Bumped Body

13 March – 28 June 2020

Bumped Body introduces the enchanting figurative sculpture of Paloma Varga Weisz in the artist's first public solo exhibition in England. Using traditional techniques of woodcarving and ceramics, her sculptures create a symbolic universe with a cast of characters that are both alluring and unsettling.

Release date: 27 September 2019

This Living Hand: Edmund de Waal presents Henry Moore

3 April – 25 October 2020

Curated by acclaimed artist and author, Edmund de Waal, the 2020 exhibition at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens will explore the role of touch and the iconography of the hand in Henry Moore's art. 

Release date: 9 July 2019

Edward Allington: Things Unsaid

25 Oct 2019 – 19 Jan 2020

Seeking new ways of 'moving and matching the complexity of the world', Edward Allington (1951-2017) was part of a generation of artists responding to changing aesthetic, social and cultural values at the end of the 1970s.

The title of the exhibition, Things Unsaid, is taken directly from a drawing by the artist, reminding us that we often know more than can be spoken. Moreover, it encapsulates Allington's feelings on the relationship between sense, perception, and objects that we physically experience and touch.

Release date: 3 June 2019

Yorkshire Sculpture International

22 June – 29 September 2019

From new work by international artists to sculpture drawn from world-class collections, this festival across Leeds and Wakefield showcases the breadth and diversity of contemporary sculptural practice, inspiring audiences to rethink what they understand the form to be.

Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) is one of the artists at the Henry Moore Institute who is realising new commissions, responding to Phyllida Barlow's provocation 'sculpture is the most anthropological of all art forms.'

The Institute's exhibition brings together an assimilation of anthropological debates around the responsibility of tangible forms in understanding human behaviour, human history and what it means to create objects today.

Release date: 10 April 2019

Woodwork: A Family Tree of Sculpture

29 Mar 2019 – 29 Mar 2020

Part of Yorkshire Sculpture International, this new sculpture display features eight recently acquired works exhibited for the first time. Woodwork: A Family Tree of Sculpture responds to Phyllida Barlow's provocation that 'sculpture is the most anthropological of the art forms' by considering wood as the most anthropological of materials.

Release date: 6 March 2019

Contemporary Art Society and Henry Moore Foundation sculpture partnership

8 March – 29 September 2019

Two works by Phyllida Barlow donated to Leeds Art Gallery through a new CAS and HMF partnership to promote sculpture in Yorkshire. The works will go on display 8 March - 29 September 2019.

Release date: 18 February 2019

Henry Moore at Houghton Hall: Nature and Inspiration

1 May – 29 September 2019

A new collaboration between the Henry Moore Foundation and Houghton Hall.

Release date: 1 February 2019

Henry Moore Grants introduces annual Exceptional Award

Rewarding the most inspiring sculptural projects each year, the inaugural Exceptional Award recognises two outstanding sculptural projects which were originated by institutions in the UK and the US, giving them additional funds to support more ground breaking work.

Release date: 11 December 2018

Renee So: Bellarmines and Bootlegs

8 March – 2 June 2019

Drawing upon international histories of sculpture, Renee So's playful, cartoon-like and typically drunken characters populate the Henry Moore Institute's main galleries in spring 2019.

Release date: 6 December 2018

Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing

3 April – 27 October 2019

Henry Moore Studios & Gardens hosts the largest exhibition devoted to Henry Moore's drawings in 40 years.

Presenting a long-overdue career survey with exclusive focus on drawing, The Art of Seeing includes over 150 works from the collections of the Henry Moore Foundation, Tate, the British Museum and other public and private collections.

Release date: 5 October 2018

Henry Moore Foundation: 2019 Exhibition Programme

The Foundation's 2019 exhibition programme, including new exhibitions at the Henry Moore Institute, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens and the Wallace Collection.

Release date: 19 September 2018

First details of Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019 programme announced

22 June – 29 September 2019

Yorkshire Sculpture International today announces the first details of its inaugural programme. The UK's largest sculpture festival will take place across Leeds and Wakefield from 22 June until 29 September 2019, and will present sculpture by artists from across the world.

A celebration of sculpture in all its forms, YSI is presented by four world-renowned cultural institutions - the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Release date: 12 September 2018

Lucia Nogueira

5 Oct 2018 – 20 Jan 2019

Over the course of her short career the Brazilian-born, London-based artist Lucia Nogueira (1950-98) was recognised as an intelligent and instinctive maker of meaning through objects; a reputation that has only grown since her death.

This exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute presents rarely-seen sculptures and works on paper from the Leeds Sculpture Collections alongside a number of loans.

Release date: 26 August 2018

Fake or Fortune: A Henry Moore in the Gurlitt Hoard

In the latest episode of the BBC's Fake or Fortune the team investigated a small watercolour sketch, from Germany, that was thought to be a Henry Moore work.

Release date: 29 June 2018

Senga Nengudi

21 Sep 2018 – 17 Feb 2019

The Henry Moore Institute presents the first solo institutional exhibition of work by Senga Nengudi outside the United States.

Release date: 28 June 2018

Yorkshire Sculpture International: the UK's largest event to celebrate sculpture

The first Yorkshire Sculpture International will take place from Saturday 22 June to Sunday 29 September 2019.

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: 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.