Jarvis Cocker and Kim Sion to curate art exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield

A new exhibition curated by Jarvis Cocker and his wife, the creative consultant Kim Sion, will open at Hepworth Wakefield next year, aiming to encourage people to discover their own creativity. Opening in May 2027, the Hodge Podge will bring together a personal selection of works challenging conventional ideas of what art can be. The Hepworth said the show would invite “unlikely conversations and interesting encounters” between artists such as Jeremy Deller, Peter Doig, Barbara Hepworth, Klara Kristalova, Emma Kunz, Mark Leckey and Agnes Pelton, as well as unknown outsider and visionary artists never exhibited in UK public museums. “We’ve chosen works that have stuck with us over the years,” Cocker told the Guardian. “We’re trying to encourage people to realise that they have creativity within them.” The museum said the exhibition reflected the couple’s interest in alternative means of expression, class and the way communities come together outside religious or elite settings. “It’s always been important for people to express themselves creatively, but it’s especially so now, when you can have other things to do it for you,” Cocker said. He said when times were tough, and “the outside world seems to be becoming a not very nice place”, people often had to look within for something sustaining. “Because they’re not going to get the help from the inhospitable outside world, it’s important to realise that you are capable of doing things. …