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Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes

23 November 2024 - 21 April 2025. Exhibition entry is £14 / £12.50 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

Take a journey through 100 years of surreal landscapes and encounter artists including Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Lee Miller and Pablo Picasso alongside contemporary artists inspired by Surrealism.

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Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

8 March 2025 - Spring 2026. Exhibition entry is £14 / £12.50 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

A survey exhibition of one of Britain’s foremost ceramicists, Elizabeth Fritsch (b.1940). The exhibition will bring together over 100 works made between the 1970s and 2013 drawn largely from the artist’s own rarely-seen private collection. It will explore Fritsch’s extraordinary forms, techniques and influences across four decades of her career.

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A Living Collection

A Living Collection

15 February 2025 - Spring 2026. Exhibition entry is £14 / £12.50 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

A Living Collection showcases the many new and recent acquisitions that have joined Wakefield's art collection.

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Resonant Forms

Resonant Forms

8 March 2025 - January 2026. Exhibition entry is £14 / £12.50 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

Drawing from Wakefield's art collection, Resonant Forms explores the dynamic relationship between visual art, music and sound, and reveals how artists across generations have embraced rhythm, harmony and resonance in their work.

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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures

17 May - 27 October 2025. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

British artist Helen Chadwick (1953 – 1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the ‘traditional’ or ‘beautiful’ in art history. This major retrospective will be the first in over 25 years, and will chart the development of Chadwick’s art from her renowned degree show piece In the Kitchen (1977) through to her Piss Flowers (1991–2).

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Caroline Walker: Mothering

Caroline Walker: Mothering

17 May - 27 October 2025. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

This exhibition will bring together works made over the past five years with new paintings Caroline Walker will make for the exhibition exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care.

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The Hepworth Family Gift / Hepworth At Work

The Hepworth Family Gift / Hepworth At Work

On permanent display. Exhibition entry is £14 / £12.50 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

The Hepworth Family Gift consists of 44 full size, rarely seen working models - surviving prototypes in plaster and aluminium made in preparation for the works in bronze Hepworth executed from the mid-1950s to the end of her career.

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Garden Play

Garden Play

Every Saturday and Sunday during term time, from Saturday 5 April - October 2025. Every day during the school holidays. Drop in 11am-4pm, FREE

Come and play in The Hepworth Wakefield Garden. Stack, build, experiment, draw and imagine with your family in the open air. Be inspired by the garden’s artworks and plants, the weather and buildings around you. No need to book, just turn up and play!

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Dementia-friendly Creative Café

Dementia-friendly Creative Café

Fourth Wednesday of every month, 1.30 - 3.30pm, FREE

The Hepworth Wakefield invites people living with dementia, their carers, friends and family to talk, make and imagine with us inspired by our exhibitions and art collection. No need to book, just drop in.

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Toddler Tuesdays

Toddler Tuesdays

First Tuesday of the Month, 10.30am - 12pm. £7 for one child with one adult + £2 per additional child/adult

Enjoy a playful morning with your little ones and join specialist early years artists to explore The Hepworth Wakefield. For families with children aged 1 - 4.

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Kira Freije

Kira Freije

22 November 2025 – May 2026. Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Ticket includes entry to all our gallery spaces on the day of visit.

The first major solo exhibition of Kira Freije’s (b. 1985, London) work in the UK. For the exhibition, Freije will create a new body of work comprising around 20 life-size figures which will be arranged in small groupings affecting a society in various states of action.

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