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, landscape, portraiture, and alternative perspectives on our recognised histories. Each of the themes is 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 Fay Godwin, Gwen John, Isaac Julien, Haroon Mirza, Grayson Perry, Keith Piper, Camille Pissarro, Bridget Riley and 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.

Free Entry | Please Donate

Opening Times

Open Tue–Sat 11am–4pm

(Weds 1–6pm)

Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays

Closed 25 Dec – 2 Jan for the festive period

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

Johny Pitts: Home is Not a Place

Until 24 Dec 2022 | Graves Gallery

Sheffield-born photographer and writer, Johny Pitts explores the idea of home through the lens of the Black British experience

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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.

Continuing display

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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.

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Outside Narration – Curated by Keith Piper

Until 31 Dec 2022 | Graves Gallery

An exploration of outsider perspectives on recognised histories curated by artist Keith Piper

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An oil painting of a rural landscape on a sunny day. In the foreground figures dance and celebrate on a hillside. In the background there is a river, trees, buildings and a bridge, with mountains in the distance.

Landscapes

The theme of landscape is explored through paintings and works on paper from the city’s collection by artists including JMW Turner, Sheila Fell and Fay Godwin.

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Reflections

Discover highlights from the city's portrait collection, including Peter Lely's Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham and George Romney's Portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu M.P.

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