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Exhibitions
Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter
2 May – 19 October 2025
Tickets on sale Spring 2025 In 2025 we present an extraordinary exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversaries of the landscape painter JMW Turner (1775-1851) and novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817). For the very first time, the work of these two legendary artistic figures will be brought together, revealing the intersecting worlds of artist and author. In 1775, two icons of British culture were born into an … Read more
Exhibitions
Mischief at the Mansion
15 November 2024 – 4 January 2025Free for members
Closed Sunday 5 January: Heavy Snow Due to heavy snow expected over the weekend, we’ll be closed Sunday 5 January. Those with tickets have been contacted. The last day to experience Mischief at the Mansion is Saturday 4 January. This Christmas, step into a magical festive world where history and imagination meet, in the long-awaited sequel to 2019's award-winning 'Night at the Mansion'. A troop of … Read more
Exhibitions
Harewood Biennial 2024: Create/Elevate
28 June – 20 October 2024
The third Harewood Biennial Create / Elevate celebrates the power of craft to surprise, inspire and bring people together to imagine new worlds. Presented within Harewood House and across its landscapes and gardens, it brings together the work of 16 British and international artists, designers and craft collectives including four major new commissions. Showcasing a range of arts and crafts techniques, the … Read more
Exhibitions
David Harewood: What’s in a name?
19 January – 3 March 2024Free for members
The life and career of renowned actor and writer David Harewood OBE are explored in this immersive exhibition, culminating in the newly commissioned portrait by Ashley Karrell as part of Harewood’s Missing Portraits series. The Missing Portraits series commissions portraits of people of African-Caribbean heritage who have connections to Harewood. Born in 1965 to parents from Barbados, David Harewood grew up in … Read more
Exhibitions
Arthur France: Son of a Small Island
13 January – 26 February 2023
As part of Harewood’s Open History series, in September 2022, a display on the State Floor celebrated the life of Arthur France, local community activist and founder of Leeds West Indian Carnival. Visitors were encouraged to discover the story of Arthur’s remarkable life through meaningful objects and photographs, selected by him and his family to show life in Leeds in the Caribbean community since the 1950s. … Read more