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.

***Please see below for information on the current temporary closures at the Graves Gallery***

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

Opening Times

Tue–Sat 11am–4pm

Closed Sundays and Mondays including Bank Holidays

***On the Border of My Peaceful Home, curated by Kedisha Coakley, and the Portraiture and the Human Figure, Place and Identity and Colour, Form and Line collection displays are closed following a failure in the gallery's heating system earlier this year – see below for more info***

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

Important news about the Graves Gallery

The Graves Gallery will close on Saturday 31 October following a failure in the gallery's heating system and ahead of move to a new, interim home for the city's art collection in 2027.

While the artworks must leave their home for now, we’re currently working with Sheffield City Council on plans for a major redevelopment of the Graves Gallery and Central Library building that will see the return of the city’s art collection to it.

Find out more

Woman looking a wall filled with lots of large portrait paintings.

Display closures at the Graves Gallery

The collection displays are closed at the Graves Gallery.

On the Border of My Peaceful Home, curated by Kedisha Coakley, and the Portraiture and the Human Figure, Place and Identity and Colour, Form and Line collection displays are now closed following a failure in the gallery's heating system earlier this year.

Lives in Focus: Photography in Sheffield’s Collection and Revolution, Revelation, Reinforcement: Queer Legacies in Sheffield’s Art Collection remain open as usual.