WINDOW a new exhibition of paintings by artist Christopher Tansey features large scale works reflecting the artist’s views during lockdown.
Christopher Tansey’s work is semi auto-biographical and self-reflective, drawing on existence, memory, experience, person and place to inform his visual language and express largely emotional responses through the use of vaguely representational elements and motifs. Life is material for his work and he paints to remind himself.
Another primary theme/concern for Christopher is exploring the ‘Isness’ and ‘Whyness’ of painting and paintings, and trying to make sense of and explore the act of painting itself and what a painting is. The search for meaning is very much part of the creative process for him.
The preview will be from 5:00pm – 8:00pm on Tuesday 22 September.
Christopher Tansey will be on site for a second viewing event from 11:00am – 2:00pm on Saturday 10 October.
For COVID-19 safety, our building has been fitted with PPE and six visitors (including staff) will be allowed entry at one time. There is no need to book, but masks are kindly required.
Practice in Place is the culminating activity of Fruit Factory Network, a year-long pilot programme created to support the development of visual artists living and working in Hull.
The programme has been centred around visits to some of the UK’s visual art hubs, museums, galleries, residency programmes and artist-run spaces to showcase leading examples, as well as connecting artists from Hull with arts professionals working across the country.
Practice in Place sees the participants exhibit a varied collection of works at Humber Street Gallery. The artists have produced responses to a multitude of concerns including climate change, displacement and migration, and have done so through a variety of art forms, including painting, photography, film and more.
FREE, booking required
The Hull Story Map is a brand new online project which wants to gather your words and stories about Hull.
Devised in lockdown by award-winning writer Joanna Walsh for Humber Mouth literature festival and Freedom Festival 2020, the map is designed to be made of stories, or memories, of feelings or thoughts about the city of Hull.
The map will be only be live for a short time (17 August – 6 September) so make sure you get your contributions in!
Social will initially open it’s doors as an Arts Café Bar and is premiering an exclusive exhibition by Hull artist Darren Rogers. His original artwork can be purchased and will stay in situ for 3 months.
“The paintings on show here today are part of a wider collection of artworks produced leading up to and during the lockdown period we have all endured in the past 6 months. This has been a highly emotive period, allowing us time to reflect, reconsider and re-evaluate ourselves and our place in society. Although the paintings on display here are not directly linked through narrative content to the pandemic, there are some concentrated influences, themes, and visual references throughout.
The visual signature of my work has developed over time, moving ever so slightly in one direction and then another, to the point we see today. The neo-pop language and auto-destructive abstractive process that I apply to the surfaces and motifs within the paintings are deeply rooted and referenced to the past, however, I aim to create images that mirror or critically bare witness to the society we are currently immersed within.
The work is constructed through the layering ripped up abstracted surfaces, ready-made images, popular characters, and informative motifs and logos. Some are nostalgic references removed from its original purpose or era and displayed careful alongside logos and other commonplace pop culture references to create a visual narrative. I often see the paintings as singular protest placards, produced as a reaction or as a critical question to myself and the viewer. In creating the work, I hope that it becomes the catalyst for self-exploration and a wider conversation about the political or social discourse of our time.” Darren Rogers.
His original artwork can be purchased and will stay in situ for 3 months.
Solidarity & Love is a new collection of work by Glasgow-based artist Jamie Crewe. The exhibition at Humber Street Gallery has been created alongside a sister show at Grand Union, Birmingham titled Love & Solidarity.
These exhibitions, which were also previously open in these spaces at the beginning of this year, have led to Crewe being selected to receive a Turner Prize Bursary – the new format for the Turner Prize in 2020, celebrating artists for their significant contributions to new developments in British contemporary art.
Taking inspiration from Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), the exhibitions address the provocations of the book, which has had a lasting impact on generations of queer, lesbian, and transgender people.
Through a combination of video, sculpture and text, Crewe touches on themes of heartbreak, experiences of transphobia, LGBT solidarity and conflict, as well as exploring the legacy of the novel itself.
*Advanced booking is required for this exhibition to allow for social distancing*
Now in it’s seventh year, Hull’s biggest, brightest, family fun comic con is back!
Returning to Bonus Arena in the heart of the city on Sunday, 20 November you can expect – workshops, props, celebrity guests, comic artists, traders, games, VR and Cos Play.
- Special guests
- Cosplay contest with prizes to be won
- Photo opportunities
- Comic artists and authors
- Prop Displays
- Retro video gaming and arcade machines from Keep It Retro
- Table top gaming from Back To The Board
- Talks, panels, Q&As, quizzes
- Drawing workshops with out artists
- Creative zone for adults and kids
- Green Screen photography
- Movie cars
- And much more to be announced!
Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, this event will be cancelled until further notice.
This is Hazel’s first solo photographic exhibition.
She seeks to demonstrate in Wake up to London, how the way we live work and play is increasingly being compromised through the privatisation of space in our cities. She contrasts the computer-generated imagery on the development hoardings and the text found in the developer’s brochure: King’s Cross – A Photographic Essay with what she found on her numerous walks exploring London’s Hottest Postcode N1C.
As you walk round the exhibition Hazel would like you to think about where you are and what you see. Is it a utopia or is it something else?
Working in local government and finance through the 1990s opened Hazel’s eyes to how regeneration projects are procured, designed and built and what can happen post-development.
The seeds of this project were sown during an Open City Architectural Renaissance Tour in May 2018. Hazel found further inspiration in the Urban Photographer Gill Golding’s work on King’s Cross Welcome to the Fake.
As the area develops, spaces become public, private or privately-owned public, changing their accessibility to all forever.
To celebrate 10 years of the Charity an exhibition of art and items made by those that the charity have helped will be on display in the Minster from 17th March to 5th April.
Butterflies Memory Loss Support Group was set up by June Cooke in 2010 after her father, George, was diagnosed with dementia in 2008.
She found there were services and support available for the individual diagnosed with the condition, but very little for their families and those closest to them and limited access to groups which welcomed both.
The exhibition goes on display in the North Choir Aisle Tuesday to Sunday during regular opening hours. For more information about the exhibition or the Charity email butterfliesmlsg@yahoo.co.uk
The Minister Kitchen will be open for lunches and refreshments.
To celebrate the ‘Michelangelo – A Different View’ exhibition we asked visitors to explore an artistic response to the famous ‘The Creation of Adam’ fresco which adorns the roof of the Sistine Chapel. Artists of all ages and abilities were given free rein over how to express themselves.
Artists of all ages and abilities were encouraged to submit works of any size and medium. 51 pieces of art that will be on display at the special exhibition include paintings, drawings, poems, photographs and sculptures.
Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, this event will be cancelled until further notice.
For ‘Suffering Arcadia – REMOTE’ Annabel McCourt will place a replica of a drone control station in the gallery for visitors to interact with. This installation plays devil’s advocate, challenging our ideas around power and control: are we completely detached from the wider world, more insulated, less connected, fragmented or are we ultimately in charge? Accompanied by readymade ‘THEATRE of War’, the work provides the physical conduit to examine our preconceptions, our imagination and ultimately our moral code.
Working closely with the University’s specialist departments, ‘REMOTE’ will evolve over the duration of the exhibition to encompass a number of augmented reality scenarios.
An interactive maquette of ‘REMOTE’ will be on display at Scarborough’s Rotunda Museum throughout the period of the exhibition.
REMOTE was made possible by St Hugh’s Foundation for the Arts, which awarded Annabel its Main Award in 2018. The registered charity has made over 100 awards to artists and arts organisations in the City of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
With thanks to:
Pearlgreen Engineering & Sovereign Signs (Strata Holdings Ltd.)
BetaJester Ltd.
HOTA
Opening times: Wed-Mon 10am-5pm, Tuesday 10am-7pm
Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, this event will be cancelled until further notice.
Join us for a celebratory evening to open the latest exhibition in the series of Masterpieces from the Royal Collection. It will be the first chance to see Ludwig Grüner’s Jewelled Cabinet displayed in Hull. There will be welcoming guest speakers and refreshments available.
Free, booking essential.
This event has been cancelled.
Join us for a relaxed night of art and discussion. Artists from our 2020 Open exhibition will be sharing their work, in conversation with local Art Studios and creatives. Co-produced by the Future Ferens, the Ferens Late is a great opportunity to explore the 2020 Open after hours.
Supported by the Friends of the Ferens.
Free, booking required.
A community of refugees share their cultural heritage and traditions in this new exhibition.
Hull’s Banyamulenge community fled conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo eight years ago.
The exhibition includes examples and photographs of art and artefacts, and video footage of events and celebrations filmed in Rwanda earlier this year.
All events/exhibitions at Humber Street Gallery cancelled
and will remain closed until May 1st.
London-based artist Lucy Clout addresses debates around queer reproduction and parenting in an exhibition of new work.
Using sculpture, film and drawing Clout expands upon past work to tell anecdotal stories from queer people of DIY reproduction whilst also considering fantasies of the future.
