Due to technical issues the galleries, library and shop are temporarily closed until Sunday 28 June 2026. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Henry Moore Institute
@hmileeds.bsky.social
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
Happy birthday to us! It’s our thirty-third anniversary today 🎉 Since opening in 1993, we've been an ambitious space for researching, discovering & celebrating sculpture. Sending a big thank you to all who've been a part of our journey over the last three-&-a-bit decades. Archive image: leodis.net
Our galleries are now closed while we install new exhibitions: Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age in the Sculpture Galleries and Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research in the Study Gallery. Both open 15 May – 30 August 2026, free entry
Planning to visit over Easter? Please make a note of our opening times: Friday 3 April 2026: closed Saturday 4 April 2026: galleries open, 10am–5pm, library closed Sunday 5 April 2026: closed Monday 6 April 2026: closed From Tuesday 7 April 2026: the galleries and library open as usual, 10am–5pm
Festive opening hours Beyond the Visual and shop - 24, 25, 26 Dec 2025: closed - 27 & 28 Dec 2025: open 10am–5pm - 29, 30, 31 Dec 2025 & 1 Jan 2026: closed - 2 Jan: open as usual (10am–5pm) Research Library - 24 Dec 2025 – 2 Jan 2026: closed - Sat 3 Jan 2026: open 1–5pm
"By engaging senses other than sight, Beyond the Visual invites play, contemplation, reminiscence and debate. It’s both simple and complex." Gill Crawshaw visits Beyond the Visual at the Henry Moore Institute ( @hmileeds.bsky.social) in Leeds. disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...
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.
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
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...
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-...
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. henry-moore.org/discover-and...
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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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!
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.
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 henry-moore.org/hmi
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.
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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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
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...
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...
Please note we are closed today because of the snow. We hope to see you later in the week.
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 vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
'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 www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibiti...
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.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - @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
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.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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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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...
