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.

Admission

Free

We have traditionally feared the night and wanted to lighten the darkness, but for artists it has also been a zone of uncertainty to capture in painted form.

This display sets Leeds artist Atkinson Grimshaw’s much loved 19th century ‘moonlights’ alongside Turner-prize nominee George Shaw’s atmospheric paintings of the housing estate where he grew up (from the Arts Council Collection).

Also included are paintings by Jack Yeats, George Sauter and Walter Greaves.

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/leedsartgallery/Nocturne.aspx

This exhibition explores the partnership between Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson – two of the UK's most important 20th Century artists. Inspired by each other, the Nicholson’s experimented furiously and often painted the same subject; one as a colourist the other more interested in form. It also looks at their relationship and collaboration with Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and the potter, William Staite Murray

Suitable for

• Any age