Projects we've helped fund
The Henry Moore Foundation has been supporting international sculpture since 1976.
We consider applications from a wide range of not-for-profit organisations including museums, galleries and community trusts.
Learn more about projects and commissions that have been funded by Henry Moore Grants here.
2024
When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture
Exhibition
7 February – 6 May 2024
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
£8,000 awarded
Spanning over sixty years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlighted ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.
2023
Gabecare, High on the Summit Ridge
Commission/Exhibition
2023
Travelling Gallery
£3,000 awarded
Gabecare’s new sculptural installation, which playfully investigates our relationship to domestic mess by elevating craft and household activity, toured Scotland in the custom-built Travelling Gallery.
Ryan Gander, We are only human
Commission/Exhibition
2023
Invisible Dust
£3,000 awarded
Ryan Gander’s sculpture references the form of a dolos – the massive concrete blocks scattered along shorelines in great quantities, where they absorb the impact of waves to reduce coastal erosion.
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons
Exhibition
2023
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
£10,000 awarded
Extinction Beckons presents Nelson’s large-scale installations and sculptures that draw on cultural, social and political meanings implicit in found objects and materials, creating alternate realities that are at once alienating and deeply familiar.
Sarah Sze, Metronome
Commission/Exhibition
19 May – 17 September 2023
Artangel
£5,000 awarded
New York-based artist Sarah Sze’s immersive installation Metronome transformed a large Victorian waiting room at Peckham Rye Station that has lain empty for almost 50 years.
Sarah Sze, The Waiting Room is on display at Peckham Rye Station, from 19 May until 17 September 2023.
Emii Alrai, A Core of Scar
Acquisition
2023
The Hepworth Wakefield
£7,000 awarded
A work by Emii Alrai comprising a panel of landscape with three mounted glass vessels, alongside her research material in creating the commission, was successfully acquired by The Hepworth Wakefield in March 2023.
A Core of Scar preserves the legacy of a partnership project between The Hepworth Wakefield and Invia, who together commissioned artist Emii Alrai to create a work inspired by her own Iraqi heritage and Wakefield’s art collection.
Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture
Exhibition
8 March – 10 September 2023
Pitzhanger Manor House & Gallery
£4,000 awarded
In dialogue with the architectural designs of Sir John Soane, Caro’s work explores and challenges the boundaries between sculpture and architecture.
Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture was on display at Pitzhanger Manor House & Gallery, from 8 March until 10 September 2023.
2022
Rafael Pérez Evans, Insulin
Commission/Exhibition
2022
No Show Space, London
£3,000 awarded
Rafael Pérez Evans’ latest sculpture sees the artist continuing to work with key issues in ecology, farming and agriculture.
Insulin presents a new live site-specific solo exhibition at No Show Space in London, on display between 20 October and 19 November 2022.
Frederic Leighton, Athlete Wrestling with a Python
Commission
2022
Leighton House
£4,000 awarded
As part of Leighton House’s transformative £9.6m refurbishment project, the museum commissioned Pangolin Editions to create a new bronze cast of Frederic Leighton’s 1877 sculpture, Athlete Wrestling with a Python.
This cast perfectly reflects the museum’s aspirations, facilitating the appreciation of Leighton’s artistic legacy and his often-overlooked work as a sculptor.
Keith Ackerman, Jacob’s Ladder
Commission
2022
BasementArtsProject
£2,300 awarded
Keith Ackerman’s towering sculpture has transformed a problematic patch of abandoned land in Leeds into the beginnings of a vibrant sculpture garden.
Carved from locally sourced Tadcaster limestone, and having faced lengthy delays due to Covid, Jacob’s Ladder was finally unveiled to the public in summer 2022.
Feeling Her Way: Sonia Boyce
Commission/Exhibition
23 April – 27 November 2022
British Council
£17,000 awarded
We are proud to have supported Sonia Boyce’s exhibition for the British Pavilion at this year’s 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, commissioned by the British Council.
Feeling Her Way immerses visitors in the collaborative dynamism of five Black female musicians brought together by the artist to improvise, interact and play with their voices.
Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe
Exhibition
28 May – 21 August 2022
Modern Art Oxford
£8,000 awarded
Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe is the first public solo exhibition in Europe of the work of Ruth Asawa (1926-2013).
Focusing on a dynamic formative period in her life from 1945 to 1980, the exhibition gives audiences a unique experience of the artist and her work, exploring her legacy as an abstract sculptor crucial to modernism in the United States.
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
Exhibition
9 February – 15 May 2022
Southbank Centre
£7,000 awarded
This major retrospective exhibition focuses on the final chapter of Louise Bourgeois’s storied career.
In this period, the artist forged a body of work that re-articulated many of her lifelong concerns in newly provocative and profoundly enlivening ways.
The Woven Child includes Bourgeois’ exploration of identity, sexuality, family relationships, reparation, and memory.
2021
Shahpour Pouyan: Skyhigh is my place
Exhibition
10 November 2021 – 23 January 2022
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
£3,000 awarded
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens presents Shahpour Pouyan’s ambitious installation .
Designed specifically for the museum, the piece is the culmination of over two years of intense research and development.
Skyhigh is my place is the first solo presentation by the artist in a Belgian public institution.
Ben Nicholson, Quai d’Auteuil
Acquisition
2021
The Hepworth Wakefield
£15,000 awarded
Quai d’Auteuil is considered to be one of the most important ‘white reliefs’ by the pioneering British artist Ben Nicholson (1894-1982).
A work of immense importance to the development of British Modernism, we are delighted to have assisted in its acquisition by The Hepworth Wakefield.
Scholarly texts for the Holt/Smithson Foundation Digital Resource Hub
Long Term Research
2021
Holt/Smithson Foundation
£8,000 awarded
Holt/Smithson Foundation’s Scholarly Text Program was conceived to commission and publish new writing on sculpture.
Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the Foundation, explains how this grant helped to commission nine new essays on works by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.