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Our galleries at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds are currently closed while we install Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir, opening 30 September 2026. The Sculpture Research Library is open as usual.

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Collaborative project + public display

Conversation To Creation: Henry Moore x University Centre Colchester

Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire

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A group of art students stood around a wooden table covered in artworks.

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As we open for our new visitor season, we’ve been collaborating with University Centre Colchester to reshape our Sheep Field Barn project space.

Responding to Moore’s iconic themes and studio spaces, students and tutors from the university have been experimenting with cross-disciplinary ways of working across both their Fine Art and Fashion and Printed Textiles courses.

The group have been considering how process-led practice develops and evolves into collections of work, out of the studio and into display space individually, collectively and for others to experience.

For one week in May, we’re opening up the project space for everyone to see the work they’ve created and continue the conversation.

See how their work embraces this season’s theme of Vitality, prompting questions of creative life force, how we move through the world, and the relationship of works with space, scale, their environment and each other.

 

The Sheep Field Barn is open daily, 11:00–17:00, for the duration of this event.

Entry to the display is included with your ticket.

View of a gallery space, filled with sculptures of various different styles.
Student work on display in 'Conversation To Creation' at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens. Photo: Minyung Im.

Exhibiting students

Chrissie Richards
Demelza Fanshawe
Julie Gorski
Lucy Palmer
Millicent Glasgow
Samantha Martin Vega
Samantha Vinnell
Via Thyme
Zumrad Khamidova

With thanks to tutors Sarah Sabin, Stephen Ellison, Matthew Giraudeau & the wider team at University Centre Colchester.

View of a gallery space, with a large, shell-like textile sculpture in the foreground, with loops of barbed wire sat on top of it.
View of a gallery space, with a large, cave- or shell-like textile sculpture in the foreground, with loops of barbed wire sat on top of it.
View of a gallery space, with a painting of a woman on an easel, a table covered in painting supplies, and framed posters and photos of Henry Moore behind.
A small table covered in paint, painters' supplies, and small sculptures of the human body.
View of a gallery space, with a large, bronze-coloured spiral sculpture in the foreground.
A long, floor-based artwork, made of fabric dyed in a blue pattern overlaid with drawings of yellow warning signs. stood next to this work is a yellow a-frame sign, in the style of a hazard sign, but with a lemon drawn on it.
Detail of a large spiral-shaped sculpture. It is bronze-coloured on the outside, and covered with smiling mouths drawn in pen on the inside.
View of a gallery space, with a white plaster sculpture of a snake in a box full of grass in the foreground.
Two wooden trestle tables, covered with drawings and small sculptures.
A wooden table with objects including a diagram of the London Underground, an air raid shelter sign, pencil drawings of children sleeping, and part of a plaster cast.
Small objects and toys on a wooden table, arranged with labels like a museum display.
An abstract painting of a human body, that is also somewhat reminiscent of a diagram of a heart, a map of an underground railway, or a clockwork or technical diagram.

Artist In Conversation: Tyreis Holder

Artist Tyreis Holder and students from Conversation to Creation join us for a special public discussion about the works on display. Together we’ll be discussing multidisciplinary art practice, the nature of collaboration, and expressing personal identity within creative practice.

Getting here

Henry Moore Studios & Gardens

Perry Green
Hertfordshire
SG10 6EE
United Kingdom

T:  01279 843 333
E:  visitorservices@henry-moore.org

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A large bronze sculpture made of three parts, sited in a woodland clearing. The two larger parts surround the small on on two sides, acting like a shell or shelter.

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