Artists Series: Henry Moore

Eleanor Clayton is Head of Collection & Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield (THW). Following her MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art and research posts at the National Portrait Gallery and National Trust, she was Assistant Curator at Tate (2008–14). Since joining THW as Curator in 2014, Clayton has curated major exhibitions of British Modern art including Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain (2018), Bill Brandt / Henry Moore (2020), and Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life (2021), alongside solo shows of contemporary artists such as Phyllida Barlow (2016), Viviane Sassen (2018), Jadé Fadojutimi (2022) and Caroline Walker (2025). She has published widely on British Modernism including on British Surrealism (Lund Humphries, 2018, and Thames & Hudson, 2024), Henry Moore (Yale University Press, 2020) and the monograph Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life (Thames & Hudson, 2021), and has written on contemporary art for Frieze, Tate Etc., and Art Monthly, among others.