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In anticipation of our upcoming exhibition Beyond the Visual, we are thrilled to introduce the related publication Beyond the Visual: Multisensory Modes of Beholding Art, edited by Ken Wilder and Aaron McPeake.

Informed by Arts and Humanities Research Council funded projects, the volume brings together leading international authors exploring how art can be experienced beyond sight. The book and exhibition invite everyone to consider new ways of accessing sculpture and explores ideas about what blindness brings to art. Published by UCL Press, on open-access, it is available to read or purchase here: Beyond the Visual | UCL Press

We are proud to add catalogues from exhibitions supported through Henry Moore Grants. Resistant Forms, co-published by Spike Island (Bristol), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham) and Camden Arts Centre (London), charts the development of the work of Donald Locke (1930-2010), a Guyanese sculptor and writer who explored themes of colonialism, identity, and cultural heritage.

His son, Hew Locke, continues this legacy by interrogating symbols of British power and empire. The catalogue of the exhibition Hew Locke: Passages published by Yale Centre for British Art, coedited by Martina Droth and Allie Biswas, is the most comprehensive examination of the artist’s practice to date. It features new insights into the artist’s early work and the Souvenir and Natives and Colonials series, examples of which can be found in the Leeds Sculpture collection. Visit our exhibition history page to hear about Souvenir 10 (Princess Alexandra) 2019 featured in our 2024 exhibition Sculpting Royalty: Hew Locke and Mary Thornycroft.

Stop by the library to browse these books, or delve deeper through our online library catalogue for more titles which expand and challenge ways of thinking about sculpture.

Full list of acquisitions

Click the links below to see all the new books we’ve added to the Sculpture Research Library.

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Related exhibitions

Beyond the Visual
A splayed hand touching a bronze plate with lines of single black letters recessed into it. The letters are from a Snellen eye test chart and reduce in size from top to bottom.

Beyond the Visual

28 November 2025 – 19 April 2026
Sculpture Galleries and Study Gallery

For the first time in the Institute’s history, we’re hosting an exhibition of contemporary sculpture designed to be experienced using multiple senses that move beyond the visual.

Sculpting Royalty: Hew Locke and Mary Thornycroft

Sculpting Royalty: Hew Locke and Mary Thornycroft

12 July – 3 November 2024
Study Gallery

What happens when the work of a Victorian royal sculptor quite literally clashes with that of a twenty-first century cultural commentator?

O’Keeffe and Moore
A large, wooden carving of a reclining figure by Henry Moore, displayed on a plinth. Two small paintings by Georgia O'Keefe are hung on the blue wall behind, to either side of the sculpture.

O’Keeffe and Moore

13 May – 27 August 2023
The San Diego Museum of Art, USA

This is the first exhibition to bring together the work of two iconic modernists: Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore.

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