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 David Hockney, John Hoyland, Tess Jaray, Claudette Johnson, Keith Piper, Bridget Riley, Lesley Sanderson, Marc Quinn, JMW Turner 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.

Please donate £5 when you visit and help us care for the city’s remarkable art collection and celebrate Sheffield’s homegrown creative talents.

Free Entry | Please Donate £5

***The gallery is currently closed until 26 Feb 2026 while we redisplay the galleries either side of the shop and gallery entrance***

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

In Conversation: On the Border of my Peaceful Home

Reopens 26 February 2026 | Graves Gallery

This new exhibition, curated by artist Kedisha Coakley, brings together artworks, objects and specimens from Sheffield’s collection to explore the relationship between Empire and the trade in fruit and flowers.

Free Exhibition | Please Donate £5

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Portraits and the Human Figure

Reopens 26 February 2026 | Graves Gallery

This display, drawn from Sheffield’s collections, explores artists’ enduring fascination with depicting people, featuring work by Edward Burne-Jones, Albrecht Dürer, Lucian Freud, Goya, David Hockney, Claudette Johnson, Käthe Kollwitz, Thomas Lawrence, Marc Quinn, Lesley Sanderson, Stanley Spencer and more.

Free Exhibition | Please Donate £5

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Colour, Form and Line

Reopens 26 February 2026

This collection display shines a spotlight on how artists have experimented with colour and form, with displays including work by Joseph Cutts, John Hoyland, Malcolm Hughes, François Morrellet, Bridget Riley and Jean Spencer.

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A painting of a cement works, which is visible in the centre of the painting, surrounded by autumnal trees and rolling green hills. A group of workers walk along the foreground, following a train track. The artist used very neutral, earthy tones for the work.

Place and Identity

Reopens 26 February 2026

Consider how our surroundings influence who we are and how we view the world through work by Paul Cézanne, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Conroy/Sanderson, Otis Mensah, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, Paul Nash, Kateřina Šedá and more.

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