Tag: The Hepworth Wakefield

  • Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus

    Freije has created 26 new works for this show, life-size figures imbued with a rich and often warm humanity that draw you in but whose ambiguities defy singular readings

  • Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

    With many objects drawn from Fritsch’s private collection, this first retrospective of the ceramicist in 15 years presents a rare opportunity to see her works

  • Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes

    Ambiguous images and twisted and brooding forms rewrite the meaning of landscape in this exploration of subconscious desires, dreams and irrationality

  • Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents

    The Manchester-based painter’s first institutional show lifts the curtain on altered states, sensuous drapery and ecstatic pleasure

  • Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light

    Strong, single-minded and uncompromising, Lim made a significant contribution to 20th-century British sculpture, but her work has been sadly overlooked since her death. This major museum show is a chance to put that right

  • Jadé Fadojutimi: Can We See the Colour Green Because We Have a Name for It?

    In this small but vibrant new body of work, Fadojutimi’s fluid and colourful paintings seek meaning in nature and our connections to it

  • Sheila Hicks: Off Grid

    From her small woven minimes to installations that stretch from floor to ceiling, Hicks’s colourful, tactile works, spanning a 70-year career, are a delight to behold

  • Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life

    The largest UK show of Hepworth’s work since her death in 1975, this unashamedly biographical consideration of her life brings together some of her most celebrated sculptures

  • Vision & Reality: 100 Years of Contemporary Art in Wakefield

    As the gallery celebrates its 10th birthday, it is apposite that it is marking its place in the century-long history of contemporary art in Wakefield. Although closed due to Covid, the online offering is comprehensive and fascinating

  • Howard Hodgkin: Painting India

    Radiating the heat and light of India, and expressing the artist’s love for the South Asian country, this vibrant exhibition brings Hodgkin’s “somewhere else” to the north of England