Peter Huby: Hull and Back

Peter Huby: Hull and Back

Open daily 10am-5pm with late opening Tuesdays till 7pm.

Peter Huby’s career as an artist, writer, film-maker and house builder spans 60 years and several countries. After growing up in Hull, and working across the east and north of England, Peter settled in Greece in 2004 where his creative output expanded to include a hand built and mosaiced house of exceptional originality.

This exhibition is a retrospective covering his work from 1968 to the present day. It includes his latest series of paintings inspired by the Spurn peninsula, a recurring theme in his work, alongside ceramic sculptures, prints, drawings and large scale photographs of the mosaiced house which he and his partner, Linda Cox, have been building since 2006. Peter intends to give an impression of the house through a scale cardboard model assembles in the exhibition space.

Feral Art School Winter Exhibition – Bond 31

Feral Arts Winter 2022 Exhibitions is across two venues, Feral Arts School, Alfred Gelder Street and Bond 31, High Street.

Feral Supported Artists and Feral Fellows showing work at:
Feral Art School, 22 Alfred Gelder Street, HU1 2BS
Opening Fri 9th Dec 6-9pm
Sat 10th – Sun 11th Dec 1-5pm
Wed 14th – Fri 16th Dec 4-8pm

Independent Feral Artists showing work at:
Bond 31, High Street, HU1 1PS
Opening Fri 9th 4.30-7.30pm
Sat 10th – Sun 11th Dec 1-5pm
Wed 14th – Fri 16th Dec 4-8pm

The exhibition features the following artists:

Feral Supported Artists:
Ed Batchelor
Julie Corbett
Darla Cliche
Julia Davidson
Helen Gill
Graziana Presicce
Laura Quance

Feral Fellows:
Linda Martin
Peter Hall
Elaine Wainman

Independent Feral Artists:
David Rowe
Tom Grealy
Bruce Woodcock

Feral Art School are a not-for-profit community of professional artists, designers and educators who’ve come together to offer high quality experiences, fresh formats and alternative approaches. Our open-access, affordable courses for adults over 18 are located in a range of venues across the city.

Philip Larkin: Love, Death & Hull

Experience Philip Larkin’s life in Hull through film, poetry, music and readings in an immersive experience that fills the whole of the beautiful James Reckitt Reading Room at Hull Central Library.

The installation has been commissioned as part of Larkin 100, a year long celebration of Larkin’s centenary, and designed by Palma Studios, the creative team responsible for Made in Hull, which opened Hull’s 2017 City of Culture year to great acclaim.

Access has been granted by the Larkin Estate, the Larkin Society and other associated bodies to Larkin’s personal photographs, letters, draft poetry, artefacts and even doodles and these will all be included in an immersive experience utilising multiple projectors and surround sound to turn the beautiful James Reckitt Reading Room into a representation of Larkin’s internal thoughts and external influences as he lives and works in Hull.

This is a free public event and booking is not required. Open during normal Central Library hours.

Not to be missed!

Polar Fest

We are excited to present a winter event, ‘Polar Fest’ in partnership with the British Antarctic Survey and the Scott Polar Research Institute. The event will be a celebration of science and adventure amongst the most extreme elements in the world – the Polar Regions.

Explore the world of polar science including research into topics like the effects of climate change on the Antarctic, plastic in Antarctic oceans, Antarctic food webs, Alien invaders and the history of Antarctic exploration. Find out how researchers live and work in such challenging climates and why the work they are doing is so important, for the planet and all who live on it.

Make sure you pick up a trail sheet from reception, follow the clues to answer the questions to be in with a chance of winning some polar goodies! Visitors will be able to get hands on and learn real research methods applied by polar scientists and the science of snowflakes. Plus see real stomach content from an Albatross which includes plastics, litter and find out how plastics are effecting the oceans and the species who live in them. Find out how tall you are compared to different species of penguins including an extinct species which was 1.75m tall before warming up with a delicious hot chocolate and a sweet treat.

Continue your journey with a stop by the researcher’s field camp and find out what life is like for a researcher in the frozen Antarctic. Learn about the specialist equipment they take with them from sleeping bags and cooking equipment to different types of clothing to ensure they can survive in one of the most hostile and environments on the planet.

Find out more about the vast array of careers available through the British Antarctic Survey and the diversity of skills required to operate research stations in the Antarctic, from researchers and scientists to plumbers, chefs, cleaners and electricians.

Climate Feedback Loops, Oliver Ressler

Oliver Ressler is an Austrian artist and filmmaker who produces installations and films on issues such as economics, democracy, migration, the climate crisis, forms of resistance and social alternatives.

For his exhibition Climate Feedback Loops at Humber Street Gallery, Ressler has created a sound and moving image installation based on recordings the artist made in Svalbard in the arctic ocean on expedition in July 2022. The sounds of Arctic collapse in the installation serve as acoustic counterpart to the collapse of the texture of life, which has already begun

Hand Printed: An Exhibition of Art

Hull Print Collective is a local community group with members who are from Hull, the East Riding and North Lincolnshire. We are an evolving group of printmakers employing a very personal approach, covering a wide range of subject matter. The group explore a wide variety of printmaking techniques including etching, lino, collagraph, monotype, and screenprinting.

A number of members print at home in their own studios, others print at Eastgate Print Studio and Gallery, Beverley, Ferel Art School, Hull, and the Ropewalk Print Studio, Barton on Humber.

Hull Print Collective exhibit locally and some of the members hold solo exhibitions.

Many of the students have been members of Hull Print Collective for a number of years, exhibiting and selling their work in locations such as the Ferens Open, Hull, The Beverley Open, The Print Open, The Ropewalk Gallery, Barton, Eastgate Studio and Gallery, Beverley, Gallery@SALT, Beverley, Studio 11 Gallery, Hull, The Carriage House Gallery, Burton Constable Hall, Hull Truck Gallery Space, Humber Street Pop up Gallery Space, The Central Library Hull, Art Link, Hull, Broderick Gallery, Hull College, The Fishing Heritage Exhibition, St. Georges Church and St. Stephen’s Shopping Mall, Hull.

Four of our members have exhibited at Bankside Gallery, London, Form Shop and Studio, Hull, Hip Gallery, Hull, York College, Pannett Gallery, Whitby, Central Library, Hull, Burton Constable Hall, and Inspired by…… gallery,Danby, North Yorkshire.

Celebrating Black History Month

Join Hull Afro Caribbean Association to celebrate Black History Month 2022. Enjoy conversations on the reasons to celebrate Black History Month, with guided tours of the Homelands exhibition exploring life in Sierra Leone during the 1940s, dance and drumming workshops and opportunities to learn about the history of Afrobeat and Hip Hop music.

Free, drop-in.

Queen Victoria and Hull

Queen Victoria is one of the most recognisable British monarchs across the world, and locally her name is seen throughout the streets of Hull.

A new exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery will celebrate Queen Victoria’s relationship with Hull, tell the tale of Victorian Hull, and showcase the long lasting relationship the throne has with the City.

At the heart of the exhibition, an ongoing partnership with The Royal Collection Trust brings Queen Victoria’s Jewel-Cabinet to Hull, generously lent by His Majesty The King. This Victorian masterpiece, designed by Ludwig Grüner, was commissioned as a gift from her husband Prince Albert. It was an important exhibit at the nation’s Great Exhibition of 1851, a celebration of Victorian advancement and cultural sophistication.

Queen Victoria’s Jewel-Cabinet marks the fourth of five exceptional works of art from the Royal Collection to go on display at Ferens Art Gallery as part of the Masterpieces in Focus from the Royal Collection series.

The Queen Victoria exhibition will showcase Hull’s Royal Charters, affectionately known as Hull’s birth certificates, generously lent by Hull History Centre. Visitors will also see Victorian costume and artefacts from across Hull Museums Collections.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of events that will be announced on Friday 21 October

Free drop-in.

Image: Ludwig Grüner, Jewel-Cabinet, 1851. Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2022

Life with the Lionesses

‘Life with the Lionesses’, a heritage project which aims to raise awareness of the incredible role models who pioneered Women’s International Rugby League, will be staging an exhibition at Hull History Centre on Worship Street from 6^th to 13^th October.

Homelands: Photography from Sierra Leone

Homelands: Photography from Sierra Leone in the 1940s examines the shared homelands of British service personnel and Sierra Leonian people during the upheaval of the Second World War. It’s on display until 31 October.

In The Deep

In the Deep at Hull Minster, an exhibition of textile, fibre and mixed media art by textile co-operative, ‘Diverse Threads’.

See unique and beautiful pieces of textile artwork themed around water and feature a range of styles and techniques.

See Hull Minster’s website for bookable workshops

Diverse Threads were founded in 2003, they are a textile and mixed media art group based in the York area. Members are self-motivated and committed to developing their own work under the guidance of their mentor Diane Bates. In addition to meeting and exhibiting together, a number of members are also professional artists in their own right.

They all have very different styles and find their inspiration from a wide range of sources: this makes for some very diverse exhibitions, giving viewers of their work a feast of different techniques, materials and concepts.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022 – Ferens Gallery

New Contemporaries annual exhibition of emerging and early career artists launches in Hull at Ferens Art Gallery (Gallery 4) and Humber Street Gallery (Space 1 & 2)

The hotly anticipated 2022 exhibition includes artists selected through an open submission by internationally renowned artists James Richards, Veronica Ryan and Zadie Xa. Established in 1949, New Contemporaries gives visibility and recognition to the incredible breadth and depth of emerging talent.

It also provides vital development opportunities enabling artists’ practices to become more sustainable long-term.

Duncan Baird Exhibition

An exhibition from the work of local artist Duncan Baird, displaying his Hull and East Riding inspired acrylic and water colour paintings & drawings

The exhibition will run from Monday 12 September- Monday 19 September at 66-68 Humber Street

Free entry

10am-4pm

Heirloom

Hornsea Potteries, which became a much-loved household name in the 1960s, has been revived after 21 years. It is with pleasure that Studio Eleven is offering this unique exhibition within the Fruitmarket, Hull, for the first time. Partnering with Hornsea Pottery LLC, these designers and artisan are reinventing the iconic designs.

John Clappison’s designs are loved the world over and his Hornsea Pottery bird Muramics (limited edition ceramic wall hangings circa 1971 – 1972) are highly sought after. John joined Hornsea Pottery in the 1950s and soon rose to become one of Britain’s most influential ceramic designers of the 20th Century, not only for his striking designs but also for innovation in the production of mass-market pottery. His work is highly collectible and identifiable today the world over.

Deborah Bowness has produced a beautiful range of understated wallpaper hangings and borders inspired exclusively by the iconic Heirloom design. Inspired by observing the method in which Clappison adapted the pattern over different tableware shapes & created by deconstructing, rebuilding, reusing & redesigning the original Heirloom pattern.

Inspired by the design history of contrasts and mid-century design patterns, Adele Howitt has reinvented the Muramics into fabrics and tiled flat ware. The Paradise Bird designs are also inspired by the work of John Clappison, Hornsea Pottery’s creative designer from 1958.

In 2020 Hopfrog launched a range of craft glasses with the three of the most loved John Clappison Hornsea Pottery designs – Heirloom, Saffron and Hornsea Cat. The huge success of these has led to Hopfrog expanding its range of designs and products with a new bigger venue at Hornsea Freeport (the old HP factory site).

Earth is a Deadname, Lou Lou Sainsbury

Based on a series of “trans-for-trans” writing workshops that have taken place in Spring 2022, Earth is a Deadname is the first solo exhibition by Margate-based artist Lou Lou Sainsbury, installed first at Gasworks, London (July 2022) and then at Humber Street Gallery, Hull.

Identifying as a time traveller, Sainsbury works across film and performance, poetry and textiles. Her work unwrites and rewrites the natural history of living beings, inviting the viewer to delve into alternate mythologies informed by queer and ecological activisms. Sainsbury’s performances and films result from long-term research developed through collective study and collaborative processes.

For her first institutional solo exhibition, she presents a newly commissioned body of work that seeks to reimagine transgender experience beyond the limiting language of medical terms.

Adventure on the High Seas

Free with grounds admission

In 2020 the Viola Trust asked Larry Malkin to produce a calendar featuring 12 boats and ships important to the Port of Hull. This calendar was sold to raise money to bring home the Viola-Dias which currently lies rusting away in Grytviken, South Georgia. The Viola was built in Beverley in 1906, and the Viola Trust is trying to bring her back to her home port of Hull before it is too late.

These calendar pictures with those of a second calendar commemorating the part that the 9 Hull registered vessels played in the liberation of the Falkland Islands in 1982 form a major part of this exhibition. Other pictures show the Viola being launched, moving down the river Hull, and leaving the fish dock on her first voyage out on station with the Boxer Fleet, along with a variety of seascapes.’

My Work:

My paintings of ships and seascapes started with pictures of the paddle steamer ‘Lincoln Castle’ way back in the 1970s, when as a teacher, I was seconded to BBC Radio Humberside to make education programmes. The Humber Bridge had not opened, so journeys to the South Bank and the Grimsby studios depended on the paddle steamers and the level and state of the tide. To paint this wonderful old vessel on the muddy waters of the river Humber, became a challenge as the Humber is a muddy brown coloured stream, highlighted with silver-blue sky reflections. This proved impossible to replicate until I slashed at the canvas with sweeping brush strokes from the shoulder with a long thin rigger brush. This suddenly gave the right effect. I now work in the same manner with all seas, blocking in with a wide brush, working from the shoulder and then adding movement with the rigger.

Larry Malkin