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Current exhibitions

We’re open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–17:00.

Leeds Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00–17:00, and Sunday, 11:00–15:00.

Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White
Detail of an abstract sculpture, with burned materials and rusty chicken wire at the centre, with rusted metal bars bent around it.

Exhibition

Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White

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Sculpture Galleries
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time
Several leaves artfully folded together to make a small box, with the leaves' stems splayed out like tendrils.

Exhibition

Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time

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Study Gallery
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks)
An open book, displaying a quote by Joseph Beuys, a black and white photo of the artist planting a tree, and a giant number 8.

Library display

7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks)

Sculpture Research Library
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Helen Chadwick: Artist, Researcher, Archivist
Black and white photo of a woman sat on the floor making a large-scale artwork, featuring drawings of a sheep and a many-armed figure.

Exhibition

Helen Chadwick: Artist, Researcher, Archivist

Give What You Can

Archive Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery, UK
A History of Sculpture in Leeds

Exhibition

A History of Sculpture in Leeds

Leeds Art Gallery, UK

Upcoming events

We hold talks, conferences and family-friendly workshops at our venue in Leeds, with partner organisations, and online.

Events respond to our exhibitions, or form part of our current research season.

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Artist Workshop: Clay Sculptures with Amelia Frances Wood
Two young boys sat at a table sculpting with clay.
Part of Fragment and Form
Part of Fragment and Form

Summer families workshop

Artist Workshop: Clay Sculptures with Amelia Frances Wood

10:00–12:00 & 13:30–15:30

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The Studio
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Bend and Weave: Sculpting in Willow
A person making a sculpture from pieces of willow wood. The base is shaped like a five-pointed star, and raises up to a single point, not unlike a Christmas tree.
Part of Fragment and Form
Part of Fragment and Form

Drop-in workshop

Bend and Weave: Sculpting in Willow

Drop in any time between 10:30–12:30 and 13:30–15:30

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The Studio
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Amelia Groom, ‘Some Fragments for Beverly Buchanan’
A sculpture made from several concrete blocks of different shapes and sizes, stacked on top of each other.
Part of Fragment and Form
Part of Fragment and Form

Talk

Amelia Groom, ‘Some Fragments for Beverly Buchanan’

18:00–19:30

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Online
European Sculpture in the Royal Collection

Lecture & in conversation

European Sculpture in the Royal Collection

18:00–19:30

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Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Gallery Babies: First Forms
A baby sat on the floor, supported by its mother, playing with coloured plastic objects.
Part of Fragment and Form
Part of Fragment and Form

Family-friendly workshop

Gallery Babies: First Forms

11:00–12:30

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The Studio
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Saad Qureshi in conversation with Sarah Victoria Turner
An elaborately carved tower incorporating many different architectural styles from different cultures. It looks to be around four or five storeys tall.
Part of Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture
Part of Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture

Artist in conversation

Saad Qureshi in conversation with Sarah Victoria Turner

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Bradford Playhouse
Embodied Ideals: The Representation of Women in European Public Sculpture (1836-1937)
Group sculpture in white plaster or stone of five life-sized, partially nude women. Three are seated on a bench, and below two are standing, one holding a wreath above her head, the other reading from a scroll.

Symposium

Embodied Ideals: The Representation of Women in European Public Sculpture (1836-1937)

10:00–18:30

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Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Curator's Tour of Fragment and Form
A wire armature mounted to a wall displays a sculpture of roughly-made pot, painted with a copper-green patina. On the floor behind is a sculpture made from a driftwood log, with four long, rusted metal spikes reaching out like a breaking wave.
Part of Fragment and Form
Part of Fragment and Form

Guided tour

Curator's Tour of Fragment and Form

18:00–19:00

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Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Placemaking: The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sculpture and Urban Regeneration
A sculpture made from steel pipes arranged horizontally in all different directions, so that wind passes through them. The sculpture is narrow at the base and fans out much more widely at the top, not unlike a tree.
Part of Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture
Part of Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture

Symposium

Placemaking: The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sculpture and Urban Regeneration

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University of Bradford
Anti-Monumentality and the Afterlives of ‘Land Art’ in Britain
A small black box containing two sticks of colouring pastel, one red and the other green. The artwork is signed by artist Anya Gallaccio and numbered 2/10.

Symposium

Anti-Monumentality and the Afterlives of ‘Land Art’ in Britain

10:30–17:00

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Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Power for the People: Art, Protest, and the Archives of Activism
A street scene with a bridge above the road filled with coloured posters with slogans on them - 'PRIMAL ENERGY', 'MATTER', 'YOUTH', 'CHEMICAL RESEARCH' among others and a person standing on the street below with a poster on a stick coming from a backpack with 'MATERNITY' written on it and an arrow pointing to the right
Part of Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture
Part of Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture

Symposium

Power for the People: Art, Protest, and the Archives of Activism

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Victoria Hall, Saltaire
Photographic Objecthood: Construction, Presence, and the Sculptural Encounter
Two large-format black and white photos are hung on a white gallery wall, with a blurred figure walking between them. The photos show car interiors, seen from the back passenger seat.

Symposium

Photographic Objecthood: Construction, Presence, and the Sculptural Encounter

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Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Future exhibitions

Beyond the Visual
Ten individual black-and-white portraits of people holding smooth round white sculptures in their hands, arranged in a 5x2 grid.

Exhibition

Beyond the Visual

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Sculpture Galleries and Study Gallery
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

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A three-story building with a black granite facade and steps leading up, with a leafy green tree to the left. Vinyl lettering on the building reads: Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White.