Saturday, 3 October 2026, 3pm

Tickets via The Hepworth Wakefield

Alice Channer will be in conversation with artist Alison Wilding and writer and broadcaster Louisa Buck at The Hepworth Wakefield on 3 October 2026 in celebration of the museum's 15th anniversary and recent acquisitions of works by both artists.

Two recent exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield – A Living Collection and Rhythm, Dance and Everything – showcase large-scale, newly acquired sculptures that have been donated to Wakefield’s art collection. Alison Wilding’s monumental sculpture Stormy Weather (1987) – is constructed of sheets of smooth galvanised steel of differing heights and grey tones, interlocked around a pitted bronze base – it was gifted by the artist in 2025 and is on display in A Living Collection for the first time since its acquisition. In 2013 Alice Channer was commissioned by The Hepworth Wakefield to make a new body of work for her solo exhibition, Invertebrates, which included Homo Sapiens (Large) now on display in Rhythm, Dance and Everything. The prodigious work was gifted by Channer last year. 

Alice Channer

For two decades, Alice Channer’s work has taken feminist critiques of minimalism as a foundation upon which to build a sculptural practice. Channer has shown extensively at institutions and galleries nationally and internationally, and her work is held in public and private collections worldwide. 

“Through a combination of determination, fearlessness and curiosity, Channer has found ways to infiltrate the realm of production, to ask questions about the nature of materiality and the formation of subjecthood from within, learning to speak of the tools and techniques that shape our experience of the material world, and our place within it, in their own tongue” – Rosanna McLaughlin