Curator Tour: New Horizons – Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection

An image of ceramic works placed on a white shelf against a white wall. The ceramics are of various shapes, in blue, yellow, cream and black colours.

Lubna Chowdhary, Certain Times LII, 2021 © the artist. Photo © Andrew Judd

Explore Sheffield’s expanding and evolving Visual Art Collection in this tour of our latest exhibition with Curator, Katie Irwin.

New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection showcases paintings, works on paper, sculpture and video art that have joined the collection over the last ten years. Work by artists including Lubna Chowdhary, Lucian Freud, Dan Holdsworth, Grayson Perry, Bridget Riley, Marlene Smith, Mark Wallinger and more demonstrate art’s great power to speak to our lives now.

In this tour, you’ll hear about some of the exhibition highlights and how Sheffield’s art collection can continue to grow.

This tour forms part of the programme of events complementing the exhibition New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection, which opens at the Millennium Gallery on 18 October 2025, until 25 January 2026.

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

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Millennium Gallery

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