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Arp: The Plasters

COMING SOON | 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

COMING SOON | 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.

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

COMING SOON | 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.

Hannah Catherine Jones: UNEARTHING(S)

22 May - 30 August 2026 | Leeds Art Gallery | COMING SOON A new commission by artist Hannah Catherine Jones in collaboration with Yorkshire Contemporary

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 - 30 August 2026 | A new commission as part of Mike Nelson's blown out tyre series

'An Axis of Abstraction': Art in Cornwall and Yorkshire – Then and Now

Leeds Art Gallery | Until 7 June 2026 | Exploring Modernist artist practices in West Cornwall and West Yorkshire.
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