The Harley Foundation

The Harley Foundation 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.

Visit us this weekend to see Triple Goddess by Serena Korda, a new exhibition of ceramic works exploring the three arche...
13/06/2026

Visit us this weekend to see Triple Goddess by Serena Korda, a new exhibition of ceramic works exploring the three archetypes of a woman’s life: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

Spread across the gallery and museum, Korda’s work reconsiders established narratives through a feminist lens, drawing from history, folklore and myth.

Expect to see contemporary artworks shown alongside historic paintings and miniatures, fantastical headdresses, gloves, and disembodied hands, family portraits made in collaboration with Korda’s young daughter, and figurative sculptures representing a range of older female bodies rarely seen in art.

Don't forget, if you visit us between 11am and 3pm on Saturday 13 June, you can catch Daniel Jackson's glassblowing demonstration in the courtyard 🔥

🔗Learn more about Triple Goddess by Serena Korda: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/serena-korda-triple-goddess/

Image credits: Stephen Simons

Looking for activities full of music, movement and creativity for under 5's? Join musician and children’s entertainer Be...
11/06/2026

Looking for activities full of music, movement and creativity for under 5's? Join musician and children’s entertainer Becky Bops to make some noise in the gallery!

Surrounded by contemporary and historic art in our galleries, these lively 45 minute sessions help little ones to express themselves, play, learn and have fun.

🔗Sessions cost £9 per child, and run on selected Wednesday mornings. Learn more: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/music-and-movement-with-becky-bops/

Visit the Courtyard at Welbeck this Saturday to see a glassblowing demonstration by Harley Studio artist Daniel Jackson!...
09/06/2026

Visit the Courtyard at Welbeck this Saturday to see a glassblowing demonstration by Harley Studio artist Daniel Jackson! 🧪🔥

Between 11am and 3pm, Daniel will be joining tubes, blowing bulbs and creating shapes such as the Klein bottle: the 3D version of a Möbius strip. Come and ask him questions, watch him work, and try out his polariscope: an essential tool that reveals the stress in glass through bright colours.

This event is part of our 'Makers in the Museum' series, where you can watch as the Harley Studio artists demonstrate their skills. Learn more: https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/event/makers-in-the-museum/

Go on a tour of Welbeck Abbey to see treasures from the world-class Portland Collection of art, and discover the hidden ...
07/06/2026

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

Join us on Friday 26 June for a gallery talk in conversation with exhibiting artist Serena Korda, and Bryony Bond, Direc...
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/

We have a limited number of spaces available for our two-part Family Clay course starting this Saturday! Join us to take...
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/

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

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

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