Leeds Art Gallery

In newly refurbished sculpture galleries Polychromies: Surface, Light and Colour looks at qualities of surface in bronze, marble and stone sculpture, highlighting embedded, applied and reflected colour in work that ranges from Antonio Canova to Rebecca Warren.
Following a substantial Arts Council Renaissance National Programme grant, this display celebrates and showcases the excellence of the Leeds Museums and Galleries sculpture collection. The display unfolds across all of the Sculpture Galleries over the next year.
Sculpture has often been considered in opposition to painting, as concerned with form and not with tone and colour. However, all sculpture is coloured in some way, whether it is inherent to the material or applied over the top and has surface effects, revealed by light, which are integral to the perception of the work.
The Henry Moore Institute curates the Leeds Museums and Galleries’ sculpture collection in partnership with
Leeds Art Gallery. For more information about the exhibition, visit http://www.henry-moore.org.

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Bruce McLean is a sculptor who makes work that draws on a variety of media from live art, film, photography, painting and sculpture, dispensing with categories of definition as it moves across media, carried by an interdisciplinary, riotous imagination. Significantly McLean is a sculptor who has been professor of painting at The Slade for over 25 years and now, recently retired, has been prolific in producing work that continues to enliven and interrogate the very nature of sculpture. Paintings present sculpture and are sculptural, photography is performance, live works and ceramics art as sculptures. This exhibition aims to get to the heart of this mischievous sense of play and iconoclasm. The exhibition is a partnership with Firstsite, Colchester.

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• Any age

The results of a special creative project undertaken by ten Leeds’ schools with the Gallery are exhibited in Artspace.

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• Any age

Claude Cahun is best known for her riveting photographic self-portraits, often elaborately staged, which now seem half a century ahead of their time.

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Marlow Moss is now thought of as one of Britain’s most important Constructivist artists, though for many years she was overlooked perhaps due to her reclusive lifestyle and radical gender identity. This exhibition combines painting, sculpture and archival material to bring her work to a new audience.

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• Any age