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, John Hoyland, Tess Jaray, Claudette Johnson, Grayson Perry, Keith Piper, Bridget Riley, Lesley Sanderson, Marc Quinn 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

Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays

***The Graves Gallery and Central Library building are closed on Tue 14 May for Libraries staff training***

***The library lift to the Graves Gallery is currently available in limited capacity due to technical issues. Step free access is available through the Arundel Gate entrance***

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

LAND: Photographs by Matthew Conduit

2 Jan 2023 – 15 Jun 2024 | Graves Gallery

Discover the post-industrial landscapes that have held a lifelong fascination for Sheffield-based artist Matthew Conduit

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A natural scene focusing on a dense, tall hedgerow. Photographed in high definition at close range so that the twigs and branches form a pattern.

A person behind a table wearing blue gloves making an overlapping hand gesture in an L shape. On the table is a small version of a monument, with four columns surrounding a large central square tiered column topped with a sphere.

We are the Monument

Sat 27 January – Sat 21 December 2024 | Graves Gallery

Curated by Yuen Fong Ling, this exhibition presents new work from the artist alongside highlights from Sheffield's collection to explore the ways in which the plinth can be seen as a social, political and cultural symbol.

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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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Portraiture and the Human Figure

This display, drawn from Sheffield’s collections, explores artists’ enduring fascination with depicting people

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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 Joseph Cutts, Naum Gabo, Tess Jaray and Bridget Riley.

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Identity

This collection display looks at how ideas around identity have been explored by artists including Linda Benedict-Jones, Tam Joseph, Eelyn Lee, Ryan Mosley, Grayson Perry and Su Richardson .

Continuing display

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