Graves Gallery

Discover great art in the heart of the city at the Graves Gallery

Just across from the Millennium Gallery, you’ll find the Art Deco home of the city’s dazzling visual art collection.

Our current collection displays introduce approaches to colour and form, identity, portraiture and the human figure, and alternative perspectives on our recognised histories. Across the galleries themes are explored through paintings, sculpture, photography, video, installation and works on paper from the city’s collection, complemented by a number of key loans.

You’ll see work by artists including Avinash Chandra, Tess Jaray, Jacqueline Morreau, Isaac Julien, Grayson Perry, Keith Piper, Bridget Riley and Mark Wallinger and many more, alongside a vibrant programme of regularly changing exhibitions.

In 2021, the Graves Gallery began a five-year programme of redisplay generously supported by the Ampersand Foundation. Each year, 40% of the displays are rehung, allowing visitors to enjoy even more of the city’s collection.

Free Entry | Please Donate

Opening Times

Open Tue–Sat 11am–4pm

(Weds 1–6pm)

Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays

***The Graves Gallery will be closed on Sat 2 Dec due to staff illness. We're sorry if you were hoping to visit then and look forward to welcoming you again soon***

The gallery will close for the festive break at 3pm on Sun 24 Dec and reopen on Tue 2 Jan.

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

Colour and Light: Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection

14 Jul – 9 Dec 2023 | Graves Gallery

Celebrating one of the most talented and distinctive groups in 20th century British art.

Free Exhibition | Please Donate

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A painting of a loch and surrounding land, in green, yellow, blue and brown. In front of the lock there is grass, shrubbery and a fence, and behind the loch are mountains.

An adult woman with blue eyes and light auburn hair tied back and wearing a white blouse depicted against a light background.

Portraiture and the Human Figure

Continuing Display | Graves Gallery

Explore artists’ enduring fascination with depicting people

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A traditional landscape painting with trees, figures on horseback and grey skies. There is a large tree to the right. The image has been digitally altered and features bright green accents. There is a bright green mount framing the landscape.

PostNatures

Curated by artist Victoria Lucas, PostNatures takes JMW Turner’s painting The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon as a starting point to explore ideas of the feminine in nature.

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A man dressed in black walks in front of a funeral carriage drawn by white horses down street as people watch from the pavements. In the background is a large building with many windows and a grey roof, and also a large tree.

Modern Europeans

This display, drawn from Sheffield’s collections, celebrates the work of both the well-known and lesser-known artists who were pioneers and protégées of the experimental French art scene centred around Paris.

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Colour, Form & Line

This collection display shines a spotlight on how artists have experimented with colour and form, with displays including work by Avinash Chandra, Naum Gabo, Tess Jaray and Bridget Riley.

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A collage in landscape format comprising an number of X ray images overlaid by a head and shoulders portrait of an anguished figure in a multi-coloured headscarf.

Identity

This collection display looks at how ideas around identity have been explored by artists including Isaac Julien, Hew Locke, Donald Rodney, Marlene Smith, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Grayson Perry.

Continuing display

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