Rediscovering Ferens | IDENTITY

The Rediscovering Ferens | Identity project is a collaboration between the Ferens Art Gallery and young people from The Warren and Future Ferens. In late 2022 and early 2023, the Rediscovering group explored what identity means to them, to communities in Hull, and how our multiple, fluid identities are represented by art in the Ferens collection.

The group has worked collaboratively with a curator to choose items from the collection, to co-produce an exhibition that will also feature new works created in response to the themes of Identity. The exhibition encourages people to look again and rediscover the Ferens collection and how they identify with it.

The accompanying events programme will be an opportunity for the young curators and creatives to share their work and for visitors to share their ideas about identity and the Ferens. Events will additionally explore missing identities and how we might better reflect the dynamics of local communities in Hull, in the past, present, and future.