What's on
Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
3 April – 27 October 2019
A major new exhibition charting Moore's career in drawings
Yorkshire Sculpture International
22 June – 29 September 2019
Exhibition across all our Gallery spaces and the Sculpture Research Library
A festival of sculpture across Leeds and Wakefield, with artists Tamar Harpaz, Rashid Johnson, Maria Loboda, Sean Lynch and Cauleen Smith exhibiting at the Institute.
Henry Moore Drawing Competition 2019
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
3 April – 31 August 2019
Enter your artwork at Studios & Gardens
Woodwork: A Family Tree of Sculpture
Leeds Art Gallery
29 Mar 2019 – 29 Mar 2020
Exhibition in the Sculpture Galleries, Leeds Art Gallery
Part of YSI, this display looks at how the use of wood crosses cultures and time like no other material, bringing together objects from Africa, Britain, China, India, Myanmar and New Zealand.
Sculpture at RHS Wisley
RHS Wisley
30 May – 1 December 2019
Sculpture exhibition featuring Moore alongside other artists
Open Archive: Henry Moore's Drawings, the Early Years
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 24 October 2019
11am - 1pm
Archive drop-in session, included in an admission ticket
Sculpture in the Landscape: Landscape in the Sculpture
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
2pm
Art and Landscape Tour: free with admission
Art and Landscape: Shaping Perry Green
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Sunday, 13 October 2019
Art and Landscape Tour: free with admission
Henry Moore at Houghton Hall: Nature and Inspiration
Houghton Hall
1 May – 29 September 2019
A summer exhibition at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture and Drawings from the Leeds Collection
Henry Moore Institute
8 March – 29 September 2019
Exhibition in the Upper Sculpture Study Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery
Working with mass produced materials and ad hoc processes, Barlow creates objects that are at once playful and strange, abstract and anthropomorphic, from hand-sized works to monumental commissions.
Yorkshire Sculpture International: Tamar Harpaz
Henry Moore Institute
22 June – 29 September 2019
Exhibition in Gallery 1
Combining light, mirrors and domestic objects, Tamar Harpaz's sprawling sculptural installation teases a tangible, yet unstable, relationship between material culture, memory and communication.
Yorkshire Sculpture International: Rashid Johnson
Henry Moore Institute
22 June – 29 September 2019
Exhibition in Gallery 2
Taking in portrait busts, minimalism and the human need to make and engage with materials, Rashid Johnson has created a new installation of sculptures made entirely from shea butter.
Yorkshire Sculpture International: Maria Loboda
Henry Moore Institute
22 June – 29 September 2019
Exhibition in Gallery 3
Inspired by anthropology, linguistics and archaeology, Maria Loboda unravels the assignation of meaning to symbols and objects throughout history, reimagining them into new combinations.
Yorkshire Sculpture International: Sean Lynch
Henry Moore Institute
22 June – 29 September 2019
Exhibition in the Sculpture Research Library
Sean Lynch reveals unwritten stories and forgotten histories, and in this exhibition delves into the life and work of 'Flint Jack', a notorious nineteenth-century antiquarian, forger and vagabond.
Yorkshire Sculpture International: Cauleen Smith
Henry Moore Institute
22 June – 29 September 2019
Exhibition in Gallery 4
Smith's film Sojourner, presented here as part of a new installation, reimagines the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, as a radical feminist utopia.
Open Archive: Moore's Illustrations in the Literary World
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 26 September 2019
11am - 1pm
Archive drop-in session, included in an admission ticket
Director's Lecture: Sculptors' Drawings
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
6 - 8pm
Flint Jack Library Discussion
Henry Moore Institute
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Library Discussion with Sean Lynch, Dan Hicks and Jo Melvin, 6pm
Life Drawing
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 19 September 2019
6 - 8pm
Evening drawing session, in our archive
Artists' Books Launch: Jo Hamill and Julia McKinlay
Henry Moore Institute
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Wine reception 5:30 - 7:30pm
The Art of Seeing: Curator Tour
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 12 September 2019
2pm
Exhibition tour, free with admission
PIP9: Karanjit Panesar
Henry Moore Institute
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Performance and artist talk, 6 - 8pm
Art and Landscape: Ma
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Friday, 6 September 2019
2pm
Art and Landscape Tour: free with admission
The FM Organ: Playing with Sound
Leeds Art Gallery
29–30 August 2019
Drop in event in Leeds Art Gallery's Artspace, 11am - 4pm
Open Archive: Henry Moore's Drawings, the Early Years
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 29 August 2019
11am - 1pm
Archive drop-in session, included in an admission ticket
Art and Landscape: Shaping Perry Green
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Art and Landscape Tour: free with admission
Fantastic Flints
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
12 - 4pm
Family workshop, no booking necessary
Object Stories: Creative Writing Workshop
Henry Moore Institute
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Family workshop in the Institute's seminar room, 11am - 3pm
Teen Digital Takeover: Instagalleries
Henry Moore Institute
Friday, 16 August 2019
11am - 3pm in the Institute's seminar room
Wax Resist Wonders
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Wednesday, 14 August 2019
12 - 4pm
Family workshop, no booking necessary
The Landscape in Moore's Art
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Saturday, 10 August 2019
2pm
Art and Landscape Tour: free with admission
Teen Digital Takeover: Gallery Reporters
Henry Moore Institute
Thursday, 8 August 2019
11am - 4pm in the Institute's seminar room
A Playable Sound and Light Installation
Henry Moore Institute
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Drop in family event in the Institute's seminar room, 11am - 4pm
Henry Moore and Landscape
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Friday, 26 July 2019
2pm
Art and Landscape Tour: free with admission
Open Archive: Moore's Illustrations in the Literary World
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 25 July 2019
11am - 1pm
Archive drop-in session, included in an admission ticket
Sketchbooks and Notebooks: A Digital View
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Thursday, 25 July 2019
2:30pm
Gallery talk, free with admission
Weddings and events
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at Studios & GardensIf you're looking for a unique venue for your wedding, special event or corporate celebration, we have the answer. Find out more about hiring one of our spaces.Working at Studios & GardensWe are looking for staff members to join our Visitor Centre team for the rest of our 2019 season. Closing date: 25 July. Find out more and apply.
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Press release
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.
Press release
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.
Press release
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.
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