Edward Claxton Art Exhibition

Summer Viewpoints

A new exhibition at Studio Eleven: ‘Summer Viewpoints’

Featuring the wonderful works of: Lesley Williams, Painter and Peter Heaton, Artist Photographer.

Relics and Rails

The Danish Church is very excited to welcome their first exhibition – a display of paintings and photographs featuring railways, industrial heritage and rock bands by local artist Syd Young.

The exhibition was a great success when it was presented at Goole Museum earlier this year.

It coincides with the 175th anniversary of Hull’s Paragon Interchange and will be available to see at the church from 13th May to 15th July 2023.

Open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10am to 2pm.

Admission free.

BOOTLEG SHREG & FRIENDS is an exhibition that invites you to enter the world of ‘Shreg’ and collaborate in designing this unique character. The show explores the idea of combining the best qualities of popular green cartoon characters like Shrek, Yoda, the Grinch, Yoshi, or Luigi to create a brand new one. The exhibition features interactive inflatables, paintings, sculptures, and mixed media pieces in various mediums for visitors to enjoy.

BOOTLEG SHREG & FRIENDS is a tribute to unusual green characters from pop culture that use their strength, wisdom, love of adventure, sharp wit, or unwavering determination to overcome challenges and protect their loved ones. In Space 1, visitors can assemble the new character from inflatable shapes and in Space 2, they can make their version of SHREG using plasticine and check up on Bruce’s sculptural homework.

This is an imaginative exhibition that introduces a fresh character in an exciting and thought-provoking way, through a collection of new works commissioned by Humber Street Gallery.

Jewish Living Experience Exhibition

Jewish living experience is a mobile travelling exhibition aimed at school groups but with an equally appealing content for members of the general public and families.

It enables visitors to gain an insight into Judaism as a living faith. The Jewish Living Experience Exhibition supports the teaching of Judaism in line with all agreed religious education and citizenship curriculums.

You can experience Judaism through beautifully illustrated display panels, authentic artefacts that can be handled and educational activities which promote experiential learning. It is an educational experience for all key stages but especially suitable for key stages two and three.

The Jewish living experience exhibition supports community cohesion, interfaith dialogue and Prevent agendas.

Public Access from 2.30pm – 4.00pm Monday to Thursday

10.00am – 4.00pm – Monday – Thursday Half term holidays

Heroines, Heros and Cosmic Power in SE Asia

This exhibition draws on the extensive SE Asia collection at the University of Hull.

If focuses on legends about heroic couples from upland and lowland areas in SE Asia, and what these tell us about local beliefs about cosmic power.

The exhibition showcases some of the mysteries wayang puppets and some of the terrifying weapons, including those used in headhunting, which are part of the collection, together with a new acquisitions for the collection – a set of large paintings by an artist from Borneo, Stephen Baya.

It’s Spring

Studio Eleven introduces two prolific makers producing highly sensitive printmaking and hand-built ceramics at their best:

Ceramics by CPA Fellow, Anna Lambert.

Renowned Illustrator & Printmaker, Clare Curtis.

Chiefly a lino cutter, Clare Curtis’ work reflects a passion for British 20th century art and design combined with her subject matter of gardens, and, a love of plants find their way into most of the work. Occasionally utilising her drawing and collage methodology, Clare also produces lithographs and screen prints.

Anna Lambert’s ideas reflect an interest in her locality exploring narratives relating to climate change in her local landscape and the regeneration of orchards. Inspired by new nature writing, she engages with a common language beyond pastoral sentimentality, combining drawing with the abstract qualities of pots, their spaces, edges and surfaces.

Young Artist Open Exhibition 2023

Hundreds of talented young artists are showcased at the Ferens Young Artist Open Exhibition,

The exhibition has been held annually at the Ferens Art Gallery since 2004 and celebrates the creative talent of young people in Hull and the surrounding area.

Artworks are submitted by individuals, schools and local community groups, aged 15 and under.

Porosity By Sam Metz

Sam Metz is a disabled and neurodivergent artist based in Hull. Their work aims to capture the unpredictable nature of disabled bodies by documenting short performances through drawing, film, animation and sculpture. They have an ongoing drawing series that references the repetitive self-soothing actions of stimming – a behaviour often associated with neurodivergent people – through mark-making.

Porosity expands Metz’s research in this area to consider how the body interacts with and responds to the landscape in relation to ideas around ecology, neurodivergence and sensory information. Looking specifically at the mudflats of the Humber Estuary, Metz creates sculpture in metal, wax, plaster, stone and Valchromat to articulate the limitations of such locations.

Subject to seasonal flux, the mudflats offer a lack of material resistance that limits the body’s ability to ‘push back’ against the terrain. These geographies are hostile due to the man-made and environmental barriers that prevent access. They do not offer space for stimming and stretching of the body, leaving the disabled body in a constant state of restraint.

Simultaneously, the work draws attention to the similarities between the twisting of the body and the undulations of the landscape and asks us to consider a harmonious space where comfort can be achieved.

In Scopic Insufficiency, a video projected onto CNC milled plywood, Metz uses a LIDAR scanner to document a walk to the Humber Estuary and a train journey to Scarborough. The technology is flawed and it fails to accurately read the complex geometry of these locations. This results in fractured landscapes that mirror the way in which Metz, as a visually impaired artist, views the environment.

Sam is an artist who makes sculptures, drawings, films and animation.

In this exhibition Sam is looking at how their body interacts with the landscape.

Sam has made art about the Humber Estuary, a body of water near where they live.

Sam has scanned walks and train journeys to make a film that speaks about technology and disability.

Sirens

This work consists of seven fibreglass sculptures with light, sound and vibration and will be presented in Gallery 2. Sirens was commissioned by Freedom Festival Arts Trust and created in partnership with Pan Intercultural Arts.

Sirens examines the view of women in global society through the lens of ancient mythology. The inspiration for this project came from an article about the treatment of female characters within ancient mythology. This is the first time this work has been shown in an indoor setting. Close by in Gallery 5 at the Ferens is a large oil painting called Ulysses and the Sirens, 1909, by Herbert Draper, who was known for his mythological scenes.

Expansion of Existence

A mixed media audio visual installation Expansion of Existence explores the interconnectedness of human life on earth through ancestry and maternal lineage.

The work looks at the relationship we have with ourselves and our own heritage, through the people who came before us. The colourful intertwined ribbons, represent the different life paths of 100 women from Louise’s maternal line, who lived between 1670 and 2019. The connections between the sculptures highlights the family links as well as the similarities in lived experiences across almost 350 years.

A-Fishing For The Whale Pop Up Exhibition

As part of the Hull Maritime community programme, they have launched a new series of pop-up displays and exhibitions for 2023 and 2024. These pop-ups will tell important stories in unexpected places, from shop windows to fish & chips shops, over the next two years.

A Fishing for the Whale, shares Hull’s whaling story in new creative ways and explores the legacies of whaling for the city’s musical heritage and historical collections.

Princes Quay Shopping Centre, Monument Bridge entrance, next to Millie’s Cookies

Daily, 9am – 5.30pm

Baa’s House

Hetain Patel’s Baa’s House is a collection of films, sculptures and paintings that explore the personal significance of Patel’s late Grandmother, Lakshmiben Patel, and her home in Bolton. “Baa”, meaning “Mother” in Gujarati, becomes a central figure, sometimes connecting marginalised people to the widely-recognised world of Hollywood, and as a symbol of resistance against oppressive forces.

The Jump (2015) is a two-screen film installation. Part family portrait and part recreation of a Spider-Man scene filmed in Baa’s living room. Shot in super slow motion to an epic orchestral soundtrack, it features a home-made Spider-Man costume that can also be seen in the exhibition. Themes of metaphorically taking a leap into the unknown parallels Patel’s family’s migration to the UK, with the heroism presented on our cinema screens.

Paintings newly-commissioned by Humber Street Gallery are rendered in acrylic, gold leaf and automotive paint. They form part of a wider body of work that began in 2020, which sees the artist revisiting the subject matter of Baa’s House for the first time since Baa’s death in 2017.

Hull Unleashed Comic-Con

Highlights will include celebrity guests from film and television; Paul Blake who played Greedo, the Rhodian who shot Han Solo in Star Wars A New Hope, Mike Quinn who played the pilot Nien Nunb as well as being a master puppeteer on shows such as The Muppets and Fraggle Rock, and Clem So who has had roles in box office hits such as Guardians Of The Galaxy, Doctor Strange and James Bond Skyfall. All guests will be available to chat with as well as to obtain signed memorabilia on the day.

There will also be comic book and animation artists and authors as well as more than 80 vendor tables of comic books, Funko Pops, toys, collectibles, original art and much, much more!

You can also grab a photo with Baby Kong…the cutest overgrown monkey ever! The iconic blue Police Box aka TARDIS will be there along with Transformers Bumblebee, Ghostbusters, Star Wars characters and dinosaurs!

You can go along to the event dressed as your favourite pop culture character…lots of people do so don’t be surprised to if you see Batman or a Stormtrooper wandering around Hull University! There is also a costume masquerade there will be some fantastic prizes to be won!

Hosting the event will be Lindsey Jordan of Unleashed Events “This will be my first time hosting an event in Hull and I can’t wait! I am a big Star Wars fan so I am super excited about chatting with the guests on stage and finding out some Star Wars gems. I am also looking forward to hosting the cosplay masquerade as I have heard that previous years attendees were phenomenal! You will find Unleashed Events to be a great all-inclusive place for families, friends, stormtroopers, princesses and furries to meet up and enjoy their fandom as this event offers a huge variety of everything geeky. There is simply something for everyone so come along and see what it’s all about!”

General Entry 11am-5pm

Advance entry 10am with an advance ticket.

Advance tickets are £10 per adult, £5 for Under 16’s.

Model Railway Exhibition

Model Railway Exhibition 2 days over the Easter weekend.

Model of Hull to Hornsea & Withernsea line in working order with models of local buildings along the track, especially around Beverley Road.

10.00am to 4.00pm each day.

£1.00 entrance, children, accompanied by an adult free.

‘N-erg-Y Fusions Art’

A Pop-Up exhibition ‘N-erg-Y Fusions Art’ by artist Neal (Nelly) Richardson is open on Humber Street until 29th March.

Exhibition times are:

Monday to Saturday 9am-5.30pm
Sunday 9am-4pm

Event Categories: Exhibition