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Steve McQueen: Resistance

Coming Soon | 6 November 2026 - 25 April 2027 | Leeds Art Gallery | This thought-provoking new exhibition explores how acts of resistance have shaped life in the UK and the powerful role photography has played in both documenting and driving change.

Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax

26 June 2026 – 29 August 2027 | Leeds Art Gallery | The exhibition revisits one of the pioneering and legendary exhibitions the then Leeds Curator Phillip Hendy organised for Temple Newsam House during the dark years of the Second World War when the City Art Gallery was closed.

Arp: The Plasters

22 May 2026 – 4 October 2026 | Leeds Art Gallery | Arp: The Plasters celebrates the recent acquisition of plaster sculptures by French-German sculptor, painter and poet Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966), a gift from the Stiftung Arp, e.V. to Leeds Museums and Galleries and The Hepworth Wakefield.

Garth Evans: The Anti-Virus Sculptures

22 May 2026 – 4 October 2026 | Leeds Art Gallery | British sculptor Garth Evans (b. 1934) presents his Anti-Virus plaster sculptures, created during the first Covid lockdown in his home in Connecticut, USA.

Lines of Enquiry: Drawings from the collection

21 April 2026 – 11 April 2027 | Leeds Art Gallery | This display brings together a range of drawings from the Leeds Museums and Galleries renowned works on paper collection.

‘Some Steel’: Sculpture and Steel in Britain, 1960-90

31 January 2026 – 10 January 2027 | Leeds Art Gallery | Tracing the relationship between sculpture and steel over a period of thirty years,

Mike Nelson: M62 (East, West)

Leeds Art Gallery | 12 July 2025 - 3 January 2027 | A new commission as part of Mike Nelson's blown out tyre series
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