New Sculpture Acquisitions

1 Dec 2023-28 Jul 2024

Phyllida Barlow, RIG: untitled; stagechairs (2011). Accepted by HM Government in 2021 under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from Alexander V. Petalas and allocated jointly to The Hepworth Wakefield and Leeds Museums and Galleries, The Contemporary Art Society encouraged the use of the Cultural Gifts Scheme to make this gift. Credit: Photo Michael Pollard 2023

Overview

New Sculpture Acquisitions celebrates the ongoing partnership between Leeds Museums and Galleries and the Henry Moore Institute. Working together since the establishment of the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture in 1982, this collaboration has created one of the strongest collections of British sculpture in the world.

The works in this display chart developments in sculpture in the latter decades of the 20th century, from the use of new materials to the intergration of sculpture and architecture. Phyllida Barlow's 'RIG: untitled; stage chairs' (2011), jointly allocated to The Hepworth Wakefield and Leeds Museums and Galleries as a gift to the nation through the Cultural Gifts Scheme, is on display at Leeds Art Gallery for the first time.

The display features works by Claire Barclay, Phyllida Barlow, Andrew Bick, John Carter, Jesse Darling, Norman Dilworth and Charles Hewlings.

Artists