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Henry Moore Studios & Gardens in Hertfordshire is currently closed for winter, reopening in April 2025.

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Soft Sculpt

11:30–15:30, drop-in

Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire

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Included in your annual ticket

Two children are playing with a selection of foam shapes, stacking them to make a sculpture.

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A bearded man, carrying a small toddler, helps another small child to stack white foam shapes into a towering sculpture.
Two young children with dark hair are building a structure from foam blocks. One child is playing with a piece of white modelling clay on top of the structure they've built.
Two young children, dressed in matching striped tops, work together to create a complicated shape out of foam blocks.
A toddler wearing a straw hat and stripy leggings has just pushed over a tower of foam blocks.
Three generations of a family build a tall tower from white foam shapes, which has just started to topple and fall.
A child's hands holding a sculpture of hands they have made in white modelling clay.
A young blonde child is smiling at a tower she has made from foam blocks, while a blonde woman crouches next to her.
Two young children with curly dark hair play with white foam shapes.
In the foreground is a complicated structure constructed from white, grey and speckled foam shapes. In the background two children use more shapes to create their own structure.

Our popular Soft Sculpt sessions return for half term! Drop in and enjoy freely shaping, squishing, stacking, scaling, and balancing your own soft sculptures in the Sheep Field Barn.

Do you think you can make something like what you’ve seen outside, or a totally original creation of your own? Feel the textures, notice the tones and watch the materials transform before your eyes!

Friendly members of our team will be there to give you any help you might need. They can also show you some of Henry Moore’s original tools and share a little more about how he made his inspirational artworks that you’ll see during the rest of your visit.

A family of three children and one woman, playing together with a tower made from foam shapes. The woman is balancing a small foam disc on the smallest child's head.
A young woman in a flowery dress is building a sculpture from pieces of white packing foam. She is smiling as she adds the second to last block to her construction; the sculpture is now almost as tall as she is.
Hannah Lines' interactive sculpture.

We’re pleased to include a locally made interactive artwork as part of Soft Sculpt, created by teacher Hannah Lines from Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls, Romford.

We like how her scalable sculpture shares some thought-provoking similarities with Moore’s own ways of working. After a visit to Henry Moore Studios & Gardens last year, Hannah was inspired to make this sculpture for an ARTIST Educators exhibition. Feel free to ask our team more about it when you visit!

Tickets

This event is included in an annual ticket to Henry Moore Studios & Gardens. If you already have an annual ticket, please bring it with you and present it at the ticket desk. You can buy annual tickets online, via our Art Tickets page, or on the day of your visit from the ticket desk.

You don’t need to book for Soft Sculpt, you can drop in at any point during the session: 11:30–15:30.

Soft Sculpt is suitable for families with children of any age, including under 5s. All are welcome.

Annual tickets

Visit Studios & Gardens as many times as you like during our open season. Each ticket is valid for 12 calendar months.

Adults:  £19.50
Students: £11.00
Children (5-18):  £9.00
Under 5s: FREE

Pension / Universal Credit: £1.00
Pensioner: £17.50
Family (1 adult and 3 children): £32.00
Family (2 adults and 3 children): £49.00

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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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Colour photo of Henry Moore's sculpture Sheep Piece, with several sheep sheltering under the work. In the distance, another sculpture Large Reclining Figure is visible