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FREE ENTRY award-winning arts venue nestled in the Nottinghamshire Countryside. www.harleygallery.co.uk
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The Harley Foundation is a charitable trust which supports the visual arts and crafts. Visitor attractions include The Harley Gallery, showing contemporary exhibitions, The Portland Collection art museum, gallery shop, countryside art trail, and events ranging from online history lectures to children’s art clubs. The Foundation also runs a community of artist’s studios and a vibrant outreach programme.

30/05/2026

Join us on Friday 26 June for a gallery talk in conversation with exhibiting artist Serena Korda, and Bryony Bond, Director of the Harley Foundation.

Hear Serena discuss her feminist influences and the personal stories behind each work, including the ‘mothering plates’ made with her 6-year-old daughter Yuffie. Discover how Serena is reworking the narrative of the menopause, transforming it from a tale of loss and decline into something new.

🔗Tickets cost £5, learn more and book: https://ow.ly/MN0z50Z5FSL

Photography by Stephen Simons, all artworks by Serena Korda courtesy of Cooke Latham Gallery.

29/05/2026

Our team are hard at work preparing the museum for tomorrow’s pottery demonstration with Kyra Cane Ceramics!

As part of our Makers in the Museum series, Kyra will be throwing a range of shapes including bowls, cylinders and spherical forms from porcelain, and answering all of your burning pottery questions. 🏺 Drop into the museum between 11am and 3pm tomorrow to watch Kyra at work.

🔗Learn more about our Makers in the Museum series, and find out which Harley Studios artist is demonstrating next: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/makers-in-the-museum/

27/05/2026

We have a limited number of spaces available for our two-part Family Clay course starting this Saturday!

Join us to take inspiration from our current exhibition 'Triple Goddess' and sculpt your own ceramic Jack of the Woods or Green Man. This course costs £20 per child, and is suitable for children aged 7-16 and their parent or guardian.

🔗Learn more and book: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/family-clay/

24/05/2026

Go on a tour of Welbeck Abbey to see treasures from the world-class Portland Collection of art, and discover the hidden histories of this almost 900-year-old residence.

🔗Book Behind the Scenes Tours and State Room Tours of Welbeck Abbey: https://ow.ly/kblx50YiVMl

23/05/2026

We've got some lovely bits of craft available in the Harley Gallery shop, including new pieces from Corinne Price and Jane Hindmarch.

Visit us this bank holiday weekend to shop. 🔗Learn more about the Harley Gallery shop: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/visit/dine-shop/

20/05/2026

Take a look around the studio and land available to rent in the Harley Studios with our Director !

Located in the beautiful surroundings of Welbeck’s Victorian Kitchen Gardens, our subsidised studios provide spaces suitable for a wide range of practitioners.

Application deadline: 9am Monday 25 May
Cost: £1800 per annum (£150 paid monthly by standing order)
Location: West Workshops, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, S80 3LW.

🔗Download the application pack here: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/about/studios/

16/05/2026

Now showing: Triple Goddess by Serena Korda at the Harley Foundation…

Visit to see the gallery and museum transformed by Korda’s ceramic worlds, exploring three archetypes of a woman’s life: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

In the Harley Gallery, discover The Maidens (2023), a series of fantastical headdresses, gloves, and disembodied hands, inspired by Penelope’s handmaidens in The Odyssey. Upstairs, Korda presents a new series of family portraits made in collaboration with her six-year-old daughter Yuffie, reflecting the intimate miniature portraits on display in our museum.

Next door in the museum, see two life-sized crone figures exhibited amongst historic artworks collected over 400 years by the Cavendish family and their descendants.

🔗 On show until 6 September. Learn more: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/serena-korda-triple-goddess/

All works courtesy of the artist and Cooke Latham Gallery

15/05/2026

Now booking: Welbeck Abbey Tours 8 - 21 July 🏛️

Take a tour of Welbeck Abbey to see treasures from the world-class Portland Collection of art, and discover the hidden histories of this almost 900-year-old residence.

We offer two guided tours of Welbeck Abbey: the State Room Tour and the new Behind the Scenes Tour. Both tour routes include objects and artworks from the world-class Portland Collection. Works on show at Welbeck Abbey include pieces by Sir Peter Lely, John Wootton, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Anthony Van Dyck.

🔗Tickets cost £35, learn more and book: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/welbeck-abbey-state-room-tours/

13/05/2026

It’s all coming together...

Today Serena Korda is in the gallery, installing Triple Goddess alongside our team!

Be among the first to see the exhibition this Saturday at our free, family-friendly launch day – with eco-themed puppet shows and activities for all ages. 🔗Book your free ticket here: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/exhibition-launch-day-serena-korda/

12/05/2026

Join us this Saturday to watch an exciting eco-themed puppet show performed in our museum!

As part of our exhibition launch day event, watch Harley Studio artist Michelle Reader Artist and Steno Vitale as they perform 'Tales from the Wheelbarrow'. This joyful, eco-themed show is part of Michelle’s new venture, making puppets using recycled materials for her company Wayward Objects. The show is set in and around a wheelbarrow, where Olive the park‑keeper and Teaspoon, a cheeky bird, discover surprising creatures hidden in everyday discarded objects.

Perfect for those young and old, this is a playful, planet-loving adventure for family audiences with live music and puppetry.🔗Book your free ticket on our website: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/exhibition-launch-day-serena-korda/

Address

The Courtyard At Welbeck, A60 Mansfield Road, Welbeck
Nottingham
S803LW

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

+441909501700

Website

http://www.harleyfoundation.org.uk/

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