Tag: Exhibition

Find out more about celebrated Hull dressmaker Madame Clapham, who she made dresses for, and what made her salon so successful. Takes place 1pm – 2pm and 2.20pm – 3.30pm

Listen With Others Live is part of an ongoing series dedicated to experimental approaches to sound featuring live presentations of new and exploratory work in music and sound art. Friday 6th March at Ground, Hull Anna Peaker plis support. Anna Peaker is an artist based in Leeds. Their sound work centers around experimentation with electronics […]

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing […]

The Hands on History Museum, in the old Grammar School where William Wilberforce studied, houses the story of Hull and its people. Entry to the museum is free. Hands on History includes a fascinating glimpse into Victorian times, the Story of Hull and also features the Egyptian Gallery. This gallery is home to a genuine […]

This is an exhibition of impressionistic photographs taken in East Yorkshire.  From the hard chalk cliffs around Flamborough Head to the low-lying, soft, shifting mud and sand of Spurn Head and the Humber margins, with stops along the coast.  The headlands lie at the northern and southern extremities of the East Riding. Each location has its […]

Weightless ghosts / Accidental spectators is an experimental live performance programme interrogating the distinction between spectator and witness.   This new series for Humber Street Gallery takes Claire Bishop’s Disordered Attention as a point of departure to re-align, misinterpret, and make distorted the relationship between artist and audience. As we slip between the blurring of dance, ritual, sound, voice, […]

16th January – 1st March 2026 An eclectic collection of artists who respond to their environment with approaches that can manifest in the ordered, organic, or irregular.  A joy of working with the material shines through, with the sensitivity of capturing their personal emotive manifestation of transient moments.

Sightseers is a major new exhibition by Birmingham-based artist Luke Routledge, presenting an ambitious body of newly commissioned work at Humber Street Gallery. Visitors are invited into the latest chapter of Routledge’s ever-evolving imagined multiverse, where a gathering of larger-than-life, multicoloured beings inhabit a world that feels both playful and unfamiliar. These figures hint at stories, […]

Deep Unknowns by Maria Donnai 24 January – 11 April 2026 Public Launch 23 January 2026 | 6-8 PM (quiet hour 5-6pm) 87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP Exhibition tour with Maria Donnai (free to attend): Saturday 24 January, 12-1pm   Maria Donnai is an artist based in Hull. After a career in the veterinary […]

Cups and Scoops, Chanterlands Avenue is hosting an art exhibition by local artists, Sally and Duncan Baird until 12 February 2026. Drawings and paintings of Hull and surroundings including the melusines on the fountains in the Avenues. There are also cards available. Enjoy drinks and sweet and savoury offerings too, in your visit to Cups […]

An exploration of nature’s ever-changing atmosphere and landscapes through the eyes of a wide range of artistic mediums. In ‘The Changing Seasons’ members of the celebrated East Riding Artists group share their creative insights, inspirations and interpretations of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, bringing their own unique concepts into this exploration of nature and its […]

Explore the stories and secrets behind dozens of works as we bring the collection stores into the public galleries at the Ferens. Visitors will become curators for the day as they discover what goes on behind the scenes at a busy art gallery. They’ll find out how fragile art works are stored, packed and safely […]

A painting is not merely an image that can be reproduced in a book, magazine or on a screen. Every picture belonging to the Ferens is a physical object that needs care and expertise to ensure its survival for future generations. The conservation of artworks is a unique discipline that requires creativity, painstaking practical skills […]

Would you like to learn more about Sightseers by Luke Routledge? Join the staff at Humber Street Gallery to hear more of the stories, ideas, and thoughts behind the work on display at our lunchtime exhibition talks.

A unique exhibition celebrating Yorkshire-born carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison, who invented the marine chronometer. The exhibition not only recognises the extraordinary impact and life-changing influence of Harrison’s creations, but also the East Riding Artists’ personal and creative interpretations of Moments in Time. John Harrison, 3 April 1693 to 24 March 1776, changed the World by […]

Burton Constable Hall has long been intertwined with the story of the East Riding Yeomanry, thanks to the distinguished military service of the Chichester-Constable family. To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we are proud to present a special exhibition showcasing the Neil Hutty Collection, the largest private collection dedicated to the East Riding […]