Tag: Ferens Art Gallery

Microworld is a free family exhibition that will open on Saturday 24 May. Visitors will be invited to enter a world filled with digital life-forms, bright colours and ambient sounds. They will explore a range of creatures and see how they respond to their movements and each other. These ambitious colourful artworks are created by […]

Join Square Peg artists for a creative workshop responding to the Microworlds exhibition. Taking inspiration from light, sound and colour – let’s see what we can make together! This is a drop in session open to disabled and neurodivergent adults looking for opportunities to get creative. Takes place: 12.30pm – 2:30pm

Join us for fun ocean creature and marine ecosystem themed arts and craft activities and stories designed for children under 7 and their families, inspired by the new Microworld exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery. Older siblings are welcome to join in the fun too. Takes place: 10am-12noon

This is a relaxed family activity session with limited numbers designed for children who have a disability, are neurodivergent, or experience anxiety that would find it difficult to attend our busier drop-in workshops. In the session, children can have a go at a selection of art, technology and science activities inspired by our Microworld exhibition. […]

Find out about how sailors have navigated and explored throughout history. Design your own map, learn about how mariners navigated using stars and constellations, make a compass and get hands on with our museum handling collections. Takes place: 1pm – 3pm

Pop by the exhibition and enjoy fun and interactive performances by dancers Tamar and Jo inspired by the artworks. Tamar and Jo are Hull based dancers known for their joyous creative and colourful performances. Takes place: 1-1.20pm and 2.30pm-2.50pm

Join Rayh (Raheena Fitumi) Mohammed, a Nigerian-British artist, photographer and creative technologist based in Hull. Learn about her multidisciplinary practice, and explores themes of identity, memory and belonging. Rayh will talk about her experience of combining nostalgic portraiture with emerging technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR), and creating immersive experiences that honour tenderness, transformation and […]

Make and take home your own kaleidoscope in this fun family craft activity inspired by the Microworld exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery. Takes place: 1-3pm

Join Kandace Chimbiri, author of The Story of Afro hair, 5,000 years of history, fashion and styles, for a collage workshop exploring the global history of afro hair styling.   Kandace will give a short talk on the history behind the book. Then, take part in a collage-making activity and take home your creation.   For ages […]

Make your own mini habitat in this fun family craft activity inspired by the Microworld exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery. What creatures will live there? What plants will grow? Let your imagination run wild. Takes place: 1-3pm

Join us for fun light, sound and shadow themed arts, craft and stories  designed for children under 7 , inspired by the new Microworld exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery and the Spurn Lightship. Older siblings are welcome to join in the fun too. Takes place: 10-12noon

Come and create an animated creature as part of the Microworlds exhibition. You can spot a creature in the exhibition or dream one up yourself. Then use paper, scissors, glue and imagination to bring it to life. Before animating it in stop motion as part of a creature parade. Award winning animators My Pockets will […]

This is a relaxed (SEND) family activity session with limited numbers designed for children who have a disability, are neurodivergent, or experience anxiety. Come and create an animated creature as part of the Microworlds exhibition. You can spot a creature in the exhibition or dream one up yourself. Then use paper, scissors, glue and imagination […]

Join us to make your own mini creatures from clay in this fun art activity inspired by the Microworld exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery. Takes place: 1-3pm

Starting with a gallery tour, looking at key artworks we’ll explore texture, line and form to inspire our own prints. We’ll then experiment with Carborundum, a versatile technique that creates rich tones and textures with painterly and graphic effects, including an embossing-like impression. We will also explore dry point, a simple, direct intaglio process where […]

Explore the city’s art collection on a guided tour of Ferens Art Gallery. Our informative and friendly guides, will give you an overview of some of the highlights of the Gallery. In the hour-long tour, among others, we will reveal the stories of work by the 14th century Italian artist, Lorenzetti, art from the Dutch […]