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We're all about sculpture with exhibitions, library, archive and shop in the centre of Leeds. Part of Henry Moore Foundation, sister venue of Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
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What does a sculpture sound like?
How does it feel?
Does it smell?

Beyond the Visual opens at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds on 28 November 2025. For this groundbreaking exhibition blind and partially blind artists from around the world encourage you to encounter sculpture in a whole new way.
A black circle sits in a yellow square, with the words 'What does a sculpture sound like?' in yellow writing in the centre. Underneath are the words 'Henry Moore Institute, Leeds' and '28 November 2025 - 19 April 2026' A black circle sits in a yellow square, with the words 'How does a sculpture feel?' in yellow writing in the centre. Underneath are the words 'Henry Moore Institute, Leeds' and '28 November 2025 - 19 April 2026' A black circle sits in a yellow square, with the words 'Can you smell a sculpture?' in yellow writing in the centre. Underneath are the words 'Henry Moore Institute, Leeds' and '28 November 2025 - 19 April 2026'
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Introducing Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture - our next Research Season brought to you in collaboration with ‪@bradford2025.co.uk, the UK City of Culture, taking place across Bradford in autumn 2025.

Find out more and book free tickets at henry-moore.org/bradford-2025
A public sculpture - an elaborately carved tower incorporating many different architectural styles from different cultures sits in an urban landscape amongst greenery and buildings. Stretching high into a blue sky scattered with clouds. Words written over the clouds state: RESEARCH SEASON Bradford 2025: The Power of Public Sculpture, a series of free events taking place across Bradford, autumn 2025. Logos for Henry Moore Institute and Bradford 2025 sit at the bottom.
August 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Thank you @hmileeds.bsky.social team for the activity baskets!
July 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White is now open.
Our new exhibition brings together three contemporary artists who've transformed the galleries with work that explores heritage, displacement and materials.

Visit Tues - Sun 10am-5pm, free entry
henry-moore.org/whats-on/fra...
A textured green vessel hangs on a metal frame attached to a pinky-brown wall A large phallic structure hangs from the ceiling by a chain and feeds through an old wooden school desk, dark brown hair cascades out the bottom and runs along the floor. A metal structure attached to the wall holds seven green coloured vessels, four on one rung at the top and three on a rung below. A sculptural installation or rusted metal bars, old rope and charcoal is in the foreground while on the wall behind it sits a series of wooden boxes covered in plant printed material encasing silk worms.
July 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Our galleries are currently closed while we install our new exhibitions:

Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White
and
Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time,
both opening 18 July 2025.

Find out more:
henry-moore.org/henry-moore-...
Fragment and Form poster with a close up of an artwork consisting of rusting metal poles and black ink splatters on the floor with the words: 'Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White, opening 18 July 2025' in white text over the top.
June 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 Visiting Research Fellows. Manon Awst, Dr Uma Breakdown, Ellie Brown, Alexander Mourant, Dr Émilie Roffidal, Dr Damian Taylor and Dr Christopher Williams-Wynn will spend a month with us developing new sculpture research.

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June 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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In November, I shared my research regarding the visual-centric lens UK copyright uses to define sculptural artworks, and the issues this may cause for sensory artists, at the Sensory Innovations and Creativity in the Arts symposium at @hmileeds.bsky.social
Recording: m.youtube.com/watch?v=acze...
Beyond the Visual: Sensory Innovations and creativity in the Arts
YouTube video by Henry Moore Foundation
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April 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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We recently visited the Henry Moore Institute with 60+ parents & children from Kuluhenna Drama & Leeds Refugee Forum’s art club!

We explored Roger Ackling’s Sunlight exhibition & got creative on the gallery floor.
Huge thanks to @hmileeds.bsky.social for the warm welcome!
Woman wearing a white cardigan looking closely at a wall of framed trees on brown paper at the Henry Moore Institute. Art piece displaying small wooden tools arranged in a neat horizontal line against a white gallery wall. Children and adults sit and lie on the floor drawing on a long sheet of brown paper as part of a creative activity at the gallery. Smiling Kuluhenna Drama participant in a grey jacket and floral skirt stands outside the Henry Moore Institute
April 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Easter opening hours:

SCULPTURE GALLERIES & SHOP
Fri 18 April: closed
Sat 19 April: open 10am–5pm
Sun 20 April: closed
Mon 21 April: closed

RESEARCH LIBRARY & ARCHIVE
Fri 18 April: closed
Sat 19 April: closed
Sun 20 April: closed
Mon 21 April: closed

We're open as usual from Tues 22 April 2025.
An exterior view of Henry Moore Institute
April 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Our new season of exhibitions examining the natural world and sculptural processes are open now:

☀️ S U N L I G H T : Roger Ackling

🗻 Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance

📚 From Dawn to Dust Library Display

🌸 Helen Chadwick: Artist, Researcher, Archivist
Leeds Art Gallery

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Installation views of SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling at Henry Moore Institute showing details of Down to Earth 2011 © Courtesy the Artist's Estate / Annely Juda Fine Art, London. Photo: Rob Harris Installation view of Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance at Henry Moore Institute showing Emergency! What Was Is 2025 and Ice Watch (Bietschhorn) 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Rob Harris
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Our galleries are currently closed while we install new exhibitions SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling and Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance. Join us on Thurs 3 April, 6–8pm for our opening party henry-moore.org/whats-on/sun... The Research Library is open as usual Tues – Fri 10am–5pm & Sat 1–5pm, free entry.
One of Roger Ackling's sculptures, a hammer with thin black lines burnt into it. This sits on top of the title for the exhibition: SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling and the words 'Open Party 3 April 2025' at the bottom.
March 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Good timing for #WomensHistoryMonth

All you ever wanted to know about #FeministArt 💕 Great video from the @hmileeds.bsky.social

#WomenArtists

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGq...
Renate Bertlmann in conversation with Patricia Allmer
YouTube video by Henry Moore Foundation
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March 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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We're hiring a Full Time Assistant Curator
£26,500-£28,500 + 12.5% pension contribution + other benefits
Deadline: 17/03/25

Could you could support us to deliver a varied programme of historic and contemporary exhibitions, displays and publications?

henry-moore.org/jobs/#assist...

#artsjobs
Installation view of The Traumatic Surreal at Henry Moore Institute, until 16 March 2025, showing Ursula, C'est moi / Das bin ich / That's me 1966, courtesy Museum Ludwig and Renate Bertlmann, Blinder Engel / Blind Angel 1987 © Renate Bertlmann / Bildrecht Vienna / DACS 2024. Photo: John McKenzie
February 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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We're hiring a Part-Time Postdoctoral Researcher
2yr, fixed-term contract starting Oct 2025
Deadline: Mon 31 March 2025, 10am

Recent PhD graduate or Early Career Researcher? Develop your research portfolio in a supportive and well-established research environment.
henry-moore.org/jobs/#postdo...
Text over bookshelves from Henry Moore Institute library stating 'We're hiring a postdoctoral researcher'
February 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Applications are open for this year's visiting research fellowships.

This is your chance to take some time out for focused sculpture research using our facilities and resources in Leeds.

Deadline to apply: Mon 10 March 2025, 17:00.

Find out more: henry-moore.org/visiting-res...
January 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Please note we are closed today because of the snow. We hope to see you later in the week.
January 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Curating opportunity:
Art Fund Vivmar Curatorial Trainee

22 months fixed term contract
16 months at V&A in London
6 months at Leeds Art Gallery & Henry Moore Institute in Leeds
£27,548 - £28.500

Application deadline: 24 December 2024, 23:59
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Slide advertising the role which says: Curating opportunity Art Fund Vivmar Curatorial Trainee 22 months fixed term contract 16 months at V&A in London 6 months at Leeds Art Gallery & Henry Moore Institute in Leeds £27,548 - £28.500 Application deadline: 24 December 2024, 23:59 Logos: V&A, Art Fund, Leeds Art Gallery, Henry Moore Institute
December 17, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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'How can surrealism be reimagined as feminist resistance? This is the question that drives ‘The Traumatic Surreal’ at the Henry Moore Institute, an exhibition that unpacks the generational trauma left by Nazism for postwar women.'
Read more in @wallpaper.com
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December 16, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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Visiting over the holidays?

Our exhibitions & shop will be open Fri 27, Sat 28 & Sun 29 Dec 2024 before we close for new year 30 Dec 2024 – 1 Jan 2025.

The Research Library & Archive will be closed 23 Dec 2024 – 1 Jan 2025.

We will be back to our usual opening hours from Thurs 2 Jan 2025.
A corner of Henry Moore Institute taken from the fairground outside. Photo: John McKenzie
December 12, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - @theguardian.com

If surrealism is your bag, take a dive into the Germanophone women artists responding to WW2 👇

THE TRAUMATIC SURREAL - showing at
@hmileeds.bsky.social until March 2025 and out now in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/2s3wmxx6
December 9, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Visit our new exhibition The Traumatic Surreal to discover the work of seven women artists from German speaking countries who embraced Surrealism's disruptive potential.

Open Tues – Sun, 10am–5pm until 16 March 2025, free entry.

Thanks to everyone who joined us at our opening party last week.
November 29, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Guardian

Forbidden Territories at The Hepworth Wakefield / The Traumatic Surreal at Henry Moore Institute review – coal sacks and furry tongues hit West Yorkshire

Read now on The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

And visit Tues–Sun, 10am–5pm, until 16 March 2025, free entry
Forbidden Territories / The Traumatic Surreal review – coal sacks and furry tongues hit West Yorkshire
Showcasing visions of tiny, sinister vipers and unnervingly hairy hearts, a pair of exhibitions celebrate the centenary of the movement that aimed to go beyond the rational and into the realm of dream...
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November 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Join us to celebrate 100 years of Surrealism at the opening party for our new exhibitions The Traumatic Surreal and John Hoyland: Imaginary Beings on Thurs 21 Nov 2024, 6–8pm, all welcome, free entry.
No need to book but welcome to help us plan the event: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-trauma...
Birgit Jürgenssen, Ohne Titel (Hund) / Untitled (Dog) 1972 © Birgit Jürgenssen, Estate Birgit Jürgenssen / Bildrecht Vienna, 2024 / DACS 2024; Courtesy Galerie Hubert Winter. Photo: Simon Veres
November 15, 2024 at 12:34 PM