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.

Suggested donation £5 – please donate if you're able and help keep your museums open and available for everyone to enjoy.

Free Entry | Please Donate £5

Opening Times

Open Tue–Sat 11am–4pm

Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays

The library lift to the Graves Gallery is currently out of order. Step free access is available through the Arundel Gate entrance

***The Portraiture and the Human Figure gallery will close for partial redisplay on Sat 25 Jan and will reopen in spring***

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

COMING SOON – Derrick Greaves: Art Worlds

25 Jan – Sat 21 Jun 2025 | Graves Gallery

Derrick Greaves grew up in Sheffield and his early experiences here had a significant impact on the development of his painting. Art Worlds presents 20 highlights from his eight-decade career.

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A photograph of Derrick Greaves' 2020 work Blossom (Two Trees). The painting has a bright green background and depicts two trees side by side. On the left of the image, a pink blossom tree with a red trunk is depicted in bold lines. The trunk has an orange outline. On the right, there is a white blossom tree with a purple trunk. It has a darker purple outline. A collection of small white circles represent the individual blossoms on both trees.

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

Until 20 Dec 2025 | 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 .

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