Exhibitions

Barbara Hepworth: Strings

6 Feb - 2 May 2025 Piano Nobile Spanning three decades of Barbara Hepworth’s career, the exhibition features stringed sculptures in a comprehensive range of materials and sizes from large-scale works in wood and brass to small-scale works in bronze. Read more

Ben Nicholson: Defining Works

1929-1954 19 Sep - 10 Dec 2024 Piano Nobile An artist of rare ingenuity, sharp wit and copious invention, Ben Nicholson was among the leading international modernist artists of the twentieth century. In this exhibition Piano Nobile presented significant works from several distinct periods of his career. Nicholson’s reputation is partly founded on his pioneering use of relief carving... Read more

Abstract Painting in Britain

1960–65 19 Sep - 6 Dec 2024 Piano Nobile A parallel presentation to Ben Nicholson: Defining Works 1929-1954, the exhibition featured abstract paintings made in Britain between 1960 and 1965. Whereas Nicholson’s work was often infused with constructivist precision and cubist subtlety, the next generation of artists came of age in the era of New York School painting. Painterly... Read more

Augustus John

& the First Crisis of Brilliance 26 Apr - 13 Jul 2024 Piano Nobile The exhibition Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance delves into the early works of one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, Augustus John (1878-1961), and examines why he was heralded as the ‘saviour’ of British painting at such a young age.
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William Crozier

Nature into Abstraction 14 Feb - 22 Mar 2024 Piano Nobile Between 1958 and 1961, William Crozier (1930—2011) was making paintings inspired by his encounters with landscape. The results were not ‘landscapes’, ‘cityscapes’ or even ‘pictures’ but freeform expressions of his subjective viewpoint. He explained in 1958: ‘[painting] is seeing with an eye preset in peculiar focus so that the painter... Read more