Richard Lees: The Whalers

Richard Lees: The Whalers

The Whalers is essentially a print re- imagining of Moby Dick as a story about human greed, toxic masculinity and the fatal consequences of declaring war on nature.

The project has been inspired by a number of things: firstly, Burton Constable’s commemoration of Herman Melville’s bicentenary (the focus of Hull Print Collective’s design brief in 2019) ; secondly, Hull’s Whaling heritage, particularly in relation to the ambitious Maritime City project. But the prints, as you’ll see, also draw on my deep concern about the life or death environmental crisis we now face and the dark forces that brought us to this cliff edge.

The exhibition may be viewed in the Stables Community Art Gallery

Hull Unleashed Comic – Con

A great geeky day out!

Hosted by Smiley Quinn and featuring: Will Mellor, Patricia Quinn, Jimmy Vee and Louise Cordice

Extinction – The history of life on Earth

Dive in Deeper this half term and explore ‘Extinction’ and the history of life on earth.

Take a trip down our timeline, and take a look at the History and Development of Life in the Oceans within our Awakening Seas, leaving no stone unturned.

● Hatch Dinosaur eggs and use your palaeontology skills to identify the species.

● Dive into history, evolution and diversity of sharks, and the success of the great species.

● Witness the eruption of a Volcano with the use of some clever science.

All visits must be pre booked online on our website.

During this half term period, The Deep is open from 9am until 6pm (Last entry 5pm.)

Worlds Apart | Aristotle Roufanis at 87 Gallery

87 Gallery is excited to bring an immersive new media exhibition entitled ‘Worlds Apart’ by artist Aristotle Roufanis to Hull. Located on Princes Avenue, the gallery encourages local residents and visitors from further afield to come and see the work, which will be on display Thursday to Saturday from 15 January – 26 March, 2022.

Aristotle Roufanis was commissioned to create the immersive installation, which relies heavily on his knowledge of emergent digital processes and engineering. Visitors will enjoy seeing the installation respond to aspects of real time, such as daily weather conditions and news headlines, making each day of the exhibition a unique experience.

The late politician Jo Cox once said that “loneliness doesn’t discriminate”. We all feel lonely once in a while. However, loneliness is so subjective, that we can find it difficult to relate to another person’s experience.

In his ongoing project Worlds Apart, visual artist Aristotle Roufanis uses video installation to address issues around social isolation. The work seeks to evoke a visceral response in the viewer, to spark moments of empathy, curiosity, awareness, or even uneasiness.

Using advanced technology and new media, the installation consists of an asymmetrical grid of video screens of different sizes. Each screen shows computer-generated footage of a glass tank situated on an isolated coastline, surrounded by water and uninhabited land. The tank contains a typical living room with a single armchair facing a television screen and empty boxes on the floor. The setting feels familiar, it is simultaneously welcoming and disturbing. Loneliness affects more than 9 million people in the UK alone. The contrast between the awe-inspiring landscape and the unsettling room inside the tank attempts to capture what this condition feels like.

Show Real, Kara Chin

For her most ambitious solo exhibition to date, artist Kara Chin will transform Humber Street Gallery into a ‘blue screen’ studio, where sculptures resemble props from a CGI* movie set.

Taking inspiration from the sets of Hollywood’s live action films, such as Disney’s live action film sets, which combine computer generated characters with real actors, Chin is interested in exploring the boundaries between the natural and the artificial worlds that we are increasingly moving between.

Working across sculpture, moving image and animation, the artist has had a long standing interest in artificial intelligence and the way that humans and machine interact, and for this exhibition of new works, Chin will be combining the sophisticated technology of open source CGI imagery and voice sampling with more rudimentary collections of domestic objects to create intriguing and often humorous artworks.

The Stacks: Bodies of Work

The Stacks: Bodies of Work exhibition is the culmination of a six-month arts and research residency project with visual-media artist, Matt Fratson.

Books and items buried deep in the archives of Hull Libraries will be the focus of a new exhibition delving into the city’s rich history, highlighting hidden reference collections of Hull Libraries and examining hidden archives of literature, records, surveys and maps.

There will also be exhibits at Bransholme Library and Greenwood Library from Monday 22 November until Monday 13 December.

Ferens Favourites

Since summer 2019 we’ve been asking visitors and school groups which artworks in the Ferens collections are their favourites. They told us how they make them feel, what they like about them and what they mean to them. The result is an exhibition that has given children, young people and adults in our city a voice which has not only shaped the exhibition, but how we see the Ferens Art Gallery’s collection.

The exhibition is a chance to see favourite works from the collection, like Rosa Bonheur’s The Lions at Home, Joseph Noel Paton’s The Man With The Muck Rake and Peter Wilson’s Believe Me, I Know Best, with text labels and drawings by the people of Hull.

Free entry * Last entry 30 minutes before closing time.

Hull Model Railway Show

The 41st Model Railway Show is back for 2021 at Walton Street Leisure Centre.

Hull Minature Railway Society are hosting the show which includes working layouts and modelling demonstrations.

Free off street parking available in two car parks, plus plenty of room for parking locally. See maps below. (please note that the organisers have no control over the parking facilities and will not be supervising the car park). All vehicles will therefore be parked at the owner’s risk.

Northern Lights – The Winter Show

Exhibition of works by Sarah Louise Hawkins and Sara Moorhouse.

Sarah Louise Hawkins is interested in shape, colour, light and space, and how they interact with one another. Her work includes sculptural pieces, paintings and drawings and are made in minimalist, optical and abstract styles. Her works is inspired by the shapes and lines that can be found in the surrounding world.

Sara Moorhouse’s work explores the ways in which spaces within landscape appear altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather, time and farming.

Autumn HIP Club Exhibition

The HIP club members are having an exhibition at the HIP gallery from Wednesday 6^th October 2021 to Tuesday 30^th November 2021.

There are 20 members exhibiting with a total of 35 images.

The Hull Independent Photography (HIP) club is run by the Creative and Cultural Organization and is a club for adults (16+). It meets every Tuesday (7pm to 9pm). The club is all inclusive by gender, age and ability (from beginners to experienced photographers) and it aims to show how to take good photographs.

In Conversation as Collective Strategy

In Conversation as Collective Strategy uses Space 2 to connect and support Hull-based collective work through the act of film-making. Platforming the work of community education, campaign, and transformative justice organising that exists in the city.

Humber Street Gallery has commissioned two new films, produced by community-focused film collective Other Cinemas in collaboration with local groups Black Heritage Collective and An Untold Story Voices, which open a dialogue to explore themes of resistance and platforming grassroots solidarity and struggle. These films will be shown alongside additional material compiled by both local collectives, as well as historical works from the Cinenova collection; a non-profit organisation dedicated to distributing videos made by women.

The exhibition uses film to think through our histories, connected sense of place and politics; of race, class, gender, care, and losses experienced as a community.

This is a chance to reconsider the role that “conversation” plays in our collective future.

In Conversation as Collective Strategy has been organised by guest curator Louise Shelley in collaboration with Humber Street Gallery.

70 Objeks & Tings

70 Objeks & Tings is both an exhibition and a book that tells the stories of the Windrush Generation in their own words, and celebrates the amazing contributions they have made, and continue to make, to life in Britain, all across the UK. Museumand, The National Caribbean Heritage Museum, launched the on-line version of their book, 70 Objeks & Tings – Celebrating 70 Years of Caribbeans in the UK, on Windrush Day in 2020. A year on, they have launched the hardback version and their exhibition of the same name, to bring each page to life.

The book and the exhibition have been written and curated to share the precious stories of 184 Caribbean elders through 70 everyday objects and experiences familiar to both Caribbean life and British life.

We hope 70 Objeks & Tings will help visitors to the Streetlife Museum explore aspects of Caribbean culture they may not have discovered before, and give members of the Windrush Generation the chance to reminisce.

Free, drop-in.

Creel | Sea Change at 87 Gallery

SEA CHANGE

noun

a profound or notable transformation.

In some ways, Hull is a place defined by its relationship to the sea. It is a place grounded by a body of water- always pulling out, always coming back in again. This water has a remarkable tendency to shape, renew, de-stabilise and re-invent the land it surrounds.

Sea Change is an exhibition which brings together the work of five artists, all with connections to Hull. It asks the questions: To what extent do our collective geographies and histories inform who we are? Are such things traceable in our habits, choices and creative agencies? And how – if at all – do the places we come from shape, inform and contribute to our sense of self?

Flesh ‘n’ Blood, Jasleen Kaur

This new body of work by Jasleen Kaur for Humber Street Gallery began with the encounter of a text written by a member of the artists family; a charmed item acting as a point of connection to missing relatives.

The artist explores our relationship with visceral emotions such as grief and ecstatic healing, and unpicks the intricate and interconnected relationships with women who have shaped her. In this series of predominantly sculptural works, play and making become tools for memory and to create a new language for understanding the body and feelings.

Traditional practices and objects that facilitate healing are remixed. Works are ingested, processed by the gut beyond the gallery walls and excreted. The exhibition is a chance to engage with the body and senses, and to digest the work – quite literally.

Festival of Archaeology

Join us on the last day of the Festival of Archaeology with a celebration of the archaeology in Hull. There will be guided tours, exhibitions, and talks. In our closing event Executive Director of the CBA, Neil Redfern will be hosting an “In Conversation with…. Professor Carenza Lewis” local communities are invited to send in their questions which we will ask on the day to festival@archaeologyuk.org.

This showcase is only possible because of the amazing people in the following organisations:- Hull Culture and Leisure, Hull City Council, Whitefriargate High Street Heritage Action Zone, Humber Field Archaeology, Museum of London, Archaeology, Oxford Archaeology, Petruaria Revisited, Hull Minster

Plan your day around our programme of events

MUSEUM GARDENS:

During the day there will be Wandering Medieval Characters along the high street, and a high street trail. There will also be an official opening and guided tour of the new medieval galleries at Hull and East Riding Museum (this is by invitation only)

Displays

Archaeology of South Blockhouse,

CitiZan: Display of Coastal & Intertidal zone project with Pop-up foreshore

Fjordr Ltd: Dr Antony Firth, Display on R.38 Zeppelin Crash

Bookable tours (book at the event)

11:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)

11:00 Imagery, Imagination and Interpretation (45 minutes)

12:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)

12:30 Imagery, Imagination and Interpretation (45 minutes)

13:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)

14:00 Imagery, Imagination and Interpretation (45 minutes)

14:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)

EVENT MARQUEE (in Museum Gardens)

(Max Capacity 50 people) no booking required first come first served basis.

11:30 Petruaria Uncovered Presentation

12:00 Fjordr Ltd: Dr Antony Firth, Presentation on R.38 Zeppelin Crash

12:30 CitiZan and you! Video footage of CitiZan Projects and Q&A with the team

BOOKING REQUIRED FOR THE AFTERNOON EVENTS : Book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/164299063923(link is external)

13:15 ‘Welcome’ by Neil Redfern and Cllr Haroldo Hererra-Richmond

13:30 In Conversation with Time Team’s Professor Carenza Lewis

13:55 Archaeology Achievement Awards Launch

TRINITY SQUARE:

Displays

Discoveries from Trinity Burial Ground

Archaeology of the Minster

Petruaria Revisited – excavation information and handling activity

11-3 Call our Bluff – Object (or laminated photo) ID with Finds Specialist

11-3 Funny Bones – Craft Activity

11-3 ‘My-seum’ Activity – members of the public create their own museum (drawing activity)

Tour – book on the day, tours are every half hour

12:00-2.30 Guided Chantry Chapel Visits to view the recently discovered medieval church foundations (max 10 people)

BEVERLEY GATE: No booking required

11-3 Whitefriargate High Street Heritage Action Zone

11-3 East Riding Archaeology Society (ERAS) and Whitefriargate HSHAZ will have information stalls and display of artefacts in Gazeebo’s. ERAS will also be using a batter resonator on the grassed area next to Beverley Gate.

12-3 Brief 10 minute presentations throughout the afternoon on the history of Beverley Gate, also on the work of ERAS.

Image: Michaela, 2020, Acrylic by Karen Winship

Ferens Open 2021

The annual Open Exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery has celebrated the creativity of local amateur and professional artists since 1967. Each year the Open Exhibition provides an exciting opportunity for artists to display and sell artwork.

Visitors can expect to see a fascinating array of artwork including impressive paintings, sculptures, photography, ceramics, and textiles, most of which are up for sale.

The exhibition is FREE – booking required