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Our changing programme of historical, modern and contemporary exhibitions and events, encourage thinking about what sculpture is, how it is made and the artists who make it. As part of the Henry Moore Foundation, we are a hub for sculpture, connecting a global network of artists and scholars, continuing research into the art form and ensuring that sculpture is accessible and celebrated by a wide audience.

19/06/2026

Don't miss any of the details in our exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age.

Join our friendly Information Assistants for free introductory guided tours every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 & 14:30.

No need to book, just drop in to the Institute and join our tour guide at the welcome desk.

Images:
Details from:
Isaac Lythgoe, When everything is new the pleasures are skin deep 2023. Courtesy the artist
Rustan Söderling, Virus Meadow 2022. Courtesy the artist
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, PIRATING BLACKNESS/BLACK TRANSSEA.COM 2021. Courtesy the artist and Public Gallery, London.
Jürgen Baumann, emergency exit VI 2022. Courtesy the artist
Isaac Lythgoe, The truth is only what we get away with 2025. Courtesy the artist
Nina Davies, Image Syncer Bag 2026. Courtesy the artist
Joe Moss, Time Compression 2024.Courtesy the artist
Joey Holder, The Woosphere 2025. Courtesy the artist
Photos: Rob Harris

17/06/2026

Inspired to find out more about Yoko Terauchi’s practice after visiting our Study Gallery display Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library?

Head upstairs to our Research Library where we have items documenting the span of Terauchi’s career – including exhibition catalogues, an artist file filled with press cuttings, exhibition invitations and gallery guides.

Find the library on the first floor of the Institute and explore this amazing free resource for the study of sculpture. Open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm, and Saturdays 1-5pm.

Images:
1) Yoko Terauchi, Terra 1984. London: Coracle Press, courtesy the artist. Photo: Rob Harris
2 & 3) A selection of books, pamphlets and leaflets from the Research Library collection
4) Yoko Terauchi, Cuckoo 1992. London: Coracle Press, courtesy the artist. Photo: Minyung Im
5) Yoko Terauchi, Ebb & Flow 1988. London: Coracle Press, courtesy the artist. Photo: Minyung Im
6) Yoko Terauchi's page in the group publication Tongue & Groove 1983 that accompanied a touring exhibition held at Coracle Press, 5 March – 8 April 1983; St Pauls Gallery, Leeds, 18 April – 13 May 1983; and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 17 May – 26 June 1983. Photo: Minyung Im

16/06/2026

History meets contemporary in this new installation After the Vale 2026. Made for our exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age by Steph Linn and Philip Speakman, in the first work the artists have made together.

Speakers on three screens recount their stories of Kett's Rebellion, the Norfolk enclosure protest which turned into an armed rebellion and ended in disaster. Told by the rebels in a contemporary communication style we have become used to online, the work asks 'what if voices from a 16th-century rebellion were recorded on social media?'

Enclosing the screens are hand-made knitted wool and steel reliquaries, which reference Norwich's rich history of wool textiles, as well as the wool merchants' terraces which house Henry Moore Institute today.

Experience this work in Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age until 30 August 2026. Visit the exhibition Tuesday - Sunday 10am-5pm, free entry.

Images:
Steph Linn and Philip Speakman, After the Vale 2026. Photos: Rob Harris

12/06/2026

Join us on Saturday 25 July 2026 at 11am and 1pm for a British Sign Language (BSL) tour of our current exhibition, Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age, led by architect and art facilitator Martin Glover, a Deaf BSL user and experienced guide.

The tours have been designed specifically with the Deaf community in mind. For hearing companions who are non-signers, a BSL interpreter will be on standby throughout the sessions to voice-over in English.

We would like to offer these tours in the first instance to BSL users, but if you are learning BSL or interested in finding out more and would like to attend, please contact us at [email protected] or 01132 467 467.

Book your free place via the link in our bio or go straight to https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/british-sign-language-tours-of-phantasmagoria/

For visitors without additional interpretation needs, we run drop-in guided tours every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 11am & 2:30pm, no booking necessary.

10/06/2026

Nina Davies is a Canadian-British choreographer, sculptor and video artist. Find her video, sculpture and performance work Image Syncers 2025 in our exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age.

Davies' work looks at emerging dance practices that are coming out of social online spaces, like TikTok or video game emote culture.

As she says: 'I usually ask the question of, why are people moving like this today? I want people to be considering these dance practices, not just as fun things that only exist online or as humorous moments in time that will fade away. But I really want people to consider how our bodies are part of these sorts of new technological systems and when they’re introduced into our everyday life, how does that change us?'

Experience Glitch Guisers, a special performance by Nina Davies and her team of artists outside the Institute on Friday 10 July 2026 at 2pm and 3pm, then book to hear Nina Davies in conversation at 5pm that day. Find out more via the link in our bio.

08/06/2026

We've been working with Kew Wakehurst on their new exhibition 'Henry Moore and more', bringing sculpture by three contemporary artists - Rana Begum and Rafael Pérez Evans and Paloma Varga Weisz - alongside Henry Moore, to the gardens.

Exploring themes of light, time, change, rest and renewal, these sculptural interventions respond to the rich and diverse wild landscapes and globally important living plant collections at Wakehurst.

'No.1604 Mesh' 2026 by Rana Begum is a 14m long installation merging industrial and organic materials. Sited in the paddock, the sculpture transforms throughout the day and the seasons, mirroring the temporal rhythms of nature.

Rafael Pérez Evans' 'Horizontals' 2026 are a series of six wooden resting sculptures made from salvaged timber from fallen trees at Wakehurst. You're invited to lie down and form a relationship with the trees above, taking a moment to appreciate the sky, temperature and smell of the wood, the ground and the changing light.

'Wilde Leute 3, 6 and 18' 2023 are three bronze figures by Paloma Varga Weisz, a modern continuation of a historical figure that was described in the Middle Ages as a symbol of the primitive state of man. Set in open landscape, the permanence of bronze contrasts with the mutability of nature, creating a dialogue between transience and stability, individuality and community, past and present.

'Henry Moore and more' is open now at Kew Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath, Sussex, RH17 6TN, until 23 May 2027. Find out more at Kew Wakehurst https://www.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-on/henry-moore-and-more

Images:
Rana Begum RA, 'No.1604 Mesh' 2026 © RBG Kew. Photo Jim Holden
Rafael Perez Evans, ‘Horizontals’ 2026 © RBG Kew, Photo RBG Kew
Paloma Varga Weisz, 'Wilde Leute' 2026 © RBG Kew, Photo Jeff Eden
Henry Moore, 'Relief No. 1' 1959 © Henry Moore Foundation, Photo Jeff Eden

04/06/2026

New in the shop - a rare chance to own a piece of wearable art.

Canadian-British choreographer, sculptor and video artist Nina Davies has made some of her limited edition hoodies available for you to buy.

As seen in our exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age, Davies' project Image Syncers 2025 spans video, sculpture and performance and considers how digital technologies are changing the way we move.

Hand-sewn by the artist’s mother, the text is adapted from AI-generated script and then hand-painted and flocked.

Find out more via the link in our bio or go straight to https://shop.henry-moore.org/products/nina-davis-image-syncer-hoodie

02/06/2026

We're celebrating artists' books in the Study Gallery with a deep dive into artist Yoko Terauchi's bookworks from our library collection.

Discover five of her rare books presented alongside photographs of related installations in the display Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library.

In these works, the book becomes an expanded sculptural form, collapsing distinctions between object, image and page.

Visit the display Tuesday - Sunday 10am-5pm, free entry.

And then find out more about Yoko Terauchi’s practice by browsing catalogues and documentation in the Research Library on the first floor of the Institute.

Images:
Installation views of Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library in Henry Moore Institute's Study Gallery until 30 August 2026. Photos: Rob Harris

29/05/2026

Explore our exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age with curator Sean Ketteringham on Thursday 18 June 2026 at 6pm.

Tickets are free, but limited, so booking is essential. Get yours via at https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/curators-tour-of-phantasmagoria-folkloric-sculpture-for-the-digital-age

Images:
!) Installation view of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age showing Isaac Lythgoe, Why can’t we remember the future? 2023 and Joey Holder, The Woosphere 2025
2) Nina Davies, Symbol (light blue hoodie with black text) 2026
3) Installation view of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age showing Jürgen Baumann, Saugott oder die lernäische Schlange [Piggod or the Lernaean Serpent] 2022 and Isaac Lythgoe, When everything is new the pleasures are skin deep 2023
4) Installation view of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age showing Isaac Lythgoe, When everything is new the pleasures are skin deep 2023; Rustan Söderling, Virus Meadow 2022; Juergen Baumann, Emergency Exit V 2022 and Joe Moss' Time Compression series 2024
5) Steph Linn and Philip Speakman, After the Vale 2026
Photos: Rob Harris

27/05/2026

In the final room of our exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age, you can play Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's video game PIRATING BLACKNESS/BLACKTRANSSEA 2021.

Go through the curtain and get on board the boat, from which you can control the game screen. You'll confront difficult questions and explore your personal relationship with the history of slavery and colonisation, as the game intertwines lived experience with the fictional gamespace.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is an artist and archivist whose video games, performances and installations use the audience themselves as the main
medium. Her work often adopts lo-fi 3D graphics reminiscent of the 1990s, when computer games, PCs and the internet became widespread.

Find out more via the link in our bio and visit the exhibition Tuesday – Sunday, 10am–5pm, until 30 August 2026, free entry.

Images:
Visitors playing Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, BLACKNESS/BLACKTRANSSEA 2021 in Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age at Henry Moore Institute. Courtesy the artist and Public Gallery, London. Photos: Rob Harris and Minyung Im

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