It’s Spring

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

British Jews in the First World War: We Were There Too

An exhibition documenting the contribution and sacrifice of the Hull Jewish Community during the First World War. Over a hundred members of the Hull Jewish community served in the British army during the First World War and this exhibition tells the stories of their lives and service.

The exhibition builds from the We Were There Too digital archive and interactive website, which will become a permanent record of the lives of Jewish men, women and families, 1914-1919. The site includes details of their military and Home Front activities, ensuring that their stories are not lost for future generations.

All That Glitters…

Another installation as part of our wider Hi! WHITEFRIARGATE Culture Programme.

Bluebeany presents a sci-fi themed art installation inspired by the theme of SILVER in Hepworth’s Arcade.

Anna Bean aka Bluebeany is an artist whose work references vintage tv programmes, cult films and mythical tales. She is inspired by the idea of a light-hearted approach to art as a way of rising above the mundane routine of everyday life.

A key element of Anna’s work is the appreciation of the power of art to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Within her artistic process she values the contribution and participation of the audience encouraging them to connect to their desire to be playful and sometimes silly.

Bring your family, dress up and have a picture taken, along with others, will be creatively adapted into a collage.

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.

Exhibition Launch Party

Join us to celebrate the joint launch of two new exhibitions at Humber Street Gallery, ‘Winner Breaks First’ by Luke Beech and ‘Baa’s House’ by Hetain Patel. This event is a chance to meet the artists, visit the exhibitions and to share a drink or two.

Winner Breaks First, Luke Beech

Luke Beech presents Winner Breaks First, his debut solo show at Humber Street Gallery.

The new body of work reshapes the gallery space into a snooker hall pocket realm, found by an artist from another world who explores the game for the first time. Beech promises a “sort of silly but quite revealing ballad of hurt and queerness and madness and joy” which draws on his own experiences and hopes to make sense of them set against a casual game and a swift half.

The show will have installation, videos and a sound piece too. In the gallery you can become a part of the art and take part in a game yourself, amongst the other works on show. At times, Beech’s work can be dark and uneasy or open and raw. Sometimes, a little bit like life, it can be funny and absurd too.

Vintage Car Show

The East Yorkshire Thoroughbred Car Club have been holding a rally in the ‘Capability Brown’ landscaped grounds of Burton Constable Hall since 2005.

This year, Burton Constable Hall is excited to welcome back a fleet of cars and motorcycles spanning the decades from a 1920’s Model T Ford to a 1987 Porsche 928.

You will need to purchase at least a ticket to the grounds in order to attend the show.