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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

2022 Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Artists' Self-Portraits

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photo: Nigel Moore
2022 Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Artists' Self-Portraits
photo: Nigel Moore
photo: Nigel Moore

2022 Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Artists' Self-Portraits

02 May 2022 - 19 June 2022
Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits is a major exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, exploring how artists from 1720 to 2022 have imagined and seen themselves. It is the first large-scale exhibition at the RWA following a major redevelopment project.
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Me, Myself, I – Artists’ Self-Portraits, comprises more than 70 works with historical material exploring the traditions and ways artists have presented themselves, complemented by modern and contemporary works revealing the complexities of identity in Britain since the 1940s. The exhibition examines how the genre of self-portraiture in Britain has increasingly offered artists the means to take control and represent themselves, challenging society to re-think social mores of the time.

With the exception of two sketches of himself in army uniform in 1917 and a late drawing, there are no self-portraits in Henry Moore's oeuvre; he drew only his hands. This original approach to self-portraiture provides a fascinating insight into the sculptor and will form part of an exploration of alternative depictions of the self. The exhibition includes one drawing by Moore, Sectional Line: The Artist's Hands Holding a Pebble, made in 1981.


2022 Norwich, SCVA, Visions of Ancient Egypt
03 September 2022 - 01 January 2023
Exhibition Info: The Sainsbury Centre presents a major new exhibition exploring the enduring appeal of ancient Egypt in art and design from the ancient past to the present day. Over 150 works drawn from collections in the UK and internationally will examine how ancient Egypt has shaped our cultural imagination. From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare’s stage, this ground-breaking exhibition explores this ongoing engagement with ancient Egypt and charts its many forms across centuries of art and design. The exhibition examines how the iconic motifs and visual styles of Egypt have been re-imagined and re-invented over time – revealing a history closely entwined with conquest and colonial politics.
Installation view of Bill Brandt / Henry Moore at The Hepworth Wakefield, 7 February – 31 May 2…
07 February 2020 - 26 February 2023
Exhibition Info: Photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) and Henry Moore (1898-1986) first met during the Second World War when they both created images of civilians sheltering from the Blitz in the London Underground. Widely disseminated through news media and exhibitions, their haunting depictions of this human crisis became defining images of the war. This major exhibition begins with these early works and traces the artists’ parallel and intersecting paths across the post-war years, revealing their interdisciplinary range and the sculptural dimensions of photography, drawing and collage.
2022-23 St Albans/Doncaster, Henry Moore: Drawing in the Dark
16 December 2022 - 26 August 2023
Exhibition Info: Drawing in the Dark is the largest exhibition to date of Moore’s coalmining drawings, completed in 1942 for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. When Moore was asked to record the coalminers working to power wartime Britain, he chose to visit the mine his father had worked in, Wheldale Colliery in Castleford, where he spent a week drawing from observation. Subsequently, he worked from memory to create the remaining drawings which were all completed within six months. This fascinating body of work reveals the back-breaking labour endured by nearly 3/4 million miners as they made their vital contribution to Britain's war effort, while also providing new insights into Moore’s life and artistic process.
2022 Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim
11 June 2022 - 25 September 2022
Exhibition Info: Lucy Carrington Wertheim (1883-1971) supported many public galleries and young artists, and bequeathed over 50 works to Towner Art Gallery. This exhibition will bring together paintings, drawings and sculptures from her disbanded collection for the first time in 50 years alongside works exhibited in the Wertheim Gallery, which she established in 1930. The exhibition includes Moore’s Head of a Girl which was shown at the Wertheim Gallery’s opening exhibition.
photo: Ken Adlard
27 May 2022 - 04 September 2022
Exhibition Info: This exhibition takes as its starting point the artist’s early fascination with the Neolithic site of Stonehenge and continued exploration of the upright abstract form. Moore first encountered the prehistoric monument under the moonlight as a young man in 1921. He was inspired by the grandeur of the idea – a powerful and primal work of art set in the landscape.