The collection includes sculpture, drawings, prints, cartoons, costume designs and paintings.
Groups represented in the collection range from the Camden Town Group; post impressionist artists active between 1911-1913 alongside the Bloomsbury Group; an influential group of associated writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists.
There are also many highlights within the collection with artists such as Vanessa Bell, Samuel Peploe, Christopher Nevinson and Sir Stanley Spencer.
French Impressionist Claude Monet’s stunning landscape painting, Antibes (1888) forms the centrepiece, and is the inspiration for, an exciting new exhibition opening at the Ferens Art Gallery.
The masterpiece will travel to Hull for the first time as part of an innovative new programme in partnership with The Courtauld, London.
Antibes was chosen to be the lead painting for the exhibition following a public vote and was designed to give young people in Hull an opportunity to engage with cultural decision-making. Indeed, Monet in Mind is in itself a showcase of the talents of the Future Ferens, a 16-25 year old volunteer group, who worked in collaboration with the Gallery on all aspects of curation, design and promotion of this immersive exhibition.
Future Ferens have selected works from Ferens’ permanent collection to accompany Monet’s Antibes. Selected works include highlights by Walter Richard Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, Derwent Lees, and Barbara Hepworth.
This collaborative exhibition will bring a fresh perspective to the Impressionist artwork, and invite visitors to reconsider some of their Ferens favourites.
The key theme underscoring the exhibition is that of mindfulness, with Monet’s landscape as the anchor point. Mindfulness encourages individuals to pause and take a step back from stresses of life, and appreciate the present moment.
This accessible exhibition has been designed to give visitors – both to the gallery and online – the space in which to reflect on the artworks on display and enjoy them in a calming environment.
Free entry – Booking essential
Climb aboard at the Streetlife Museum of Transport and enjoy all the sights, sounds and smells of the past.
Admission to the Streetlife Museum is FREE.
The Ferens has a magnificent collection of paintings and sculptures, including works by European Old Masters, portraiture, marine painting, and modern and contemporary
British art.
Highlights include masterpieces by Lorenzetti, Frans Hals, Antonio Canaletto, Frederic Lord Leighton, Stanley Spencer, David Hockney, Helen Chadwick and Gillian Wearing.
With a regular programme of events, guided tours and changing exhibitions, there’s always something new to explore.
Entry is FREE
Enter a world where 235 million years of history is brought to life. From majestic mammoths to Saxon invaders, visitors to the Hull and East Riding museum of archaeology can look forward to an experience that is unique, educational and fun.
Walk through an Iron Age village, enter a Roman bath house and look at the stunning mosaics. Discover a mysterious crew of wooden warriors and see our medieval treasures!
FREE Admission.
We’re teaming up with local artists Spray Creative to create a huge mural and we need your assistance, so come along with your little ones and help us ‘Spray The Whale’!
Constable Moby has a long and intriguing history here at Burton Constable and what better way is there to celebrate it than contributing to a lasting piece of artwork which will go on display in the Whale Barn?
What’s more is that we’ll be introducing ‘Stable Stalls’ to our North Courtyard. We’re inviting a mixture of local independent businesses to showcase their products for a little retail therapy.
The Courtyard Kitchen will also be open serving take-away foods, refreshments and alcohol. Stables Kitchen will also be in full swing!
Plus, you can visit the 60ft sperm whale skeleton and learn about its past, as well as venturing to the site of Constable Moby in our Woodland.
The above activity and access to Stable Stalls will be included with your admission ticket. Please, book online and bring your proof of purchase with you on the day.
Event Information:
Date – 30th May
Time -10am-5pm.
Annual Pass Membership holders – Free
Blue Light Card holders – ‘Grounds Only’ ticket 10% off & ‘Hall & Grounds’ ticket 50% off admission from 18th May.
This is an outdoor event and Covid-19 guidelines will apply. Ongoing assessments will be made up until and on the day of the event.
In the event of adverse weather, we do have a contingency to move the activities indoors.
MdZ ESTATE TOUR by Jimmy Cauty at The New Adelphi Club, 89 De Grey Street, Hull, HU5 2RU
Monday 17th May – Wednesday 26th May 2021 – FREE entry, Tickets available from 10:30am on Monday 3rd May 2021.
Following the world exclusive launch in Stoke-on-Trent in October, and a period of time residing in a parallel dimension, we are delighted to host the MdZ ESTATE TOUR in Hull for 10 days before it continues onwards on its UK tour. The follow-up to the world famous ADP RIOT TOUR sees artist Jimmy Cauty present ESTATE, an interactive, multi-media touring artwork comprising of four concrete tower blocks built at 1:24 scale and displayed in a 40ft shipping container.
It is in many ways a continuation of the ADP Riot Tour.
Each tower block is 17 floors high (approx. 2 metres) with meticulously crafted derelict interiors – some with lights, toilets and tiny TVs playing looped public information broadcasts. One tower block is dedicated to residential and light industrial Live Work Die units, another is a children’s prison, the third a high-rise residential care home, and the last appears to have functioned as a pagan religious centre. They are all empty and no one knows what happened to the inhabitants.
In These Covid Times, It is ESSENTIAL to BOOK your FREE ticket.
NOTE: ESTATE is operating under the COVID-19 Restrictions applicable at stage 3 and dates and times may be subject to change or cancellation.
– Your ticket is for 1 ‘bubble’ of either up to 6 people or two households. For a bubble please select only 1 ticket.
– Please choose your day and time slot and bring your ticket/e-ticket with you.
– Please arrive 5 minutes before your ticket time so that we can take your details for Track and Trace. You can also check in using the NHS Track and Trace app using the QR codes provided. You will be given full instructions on how to access ESTATE on arrival.
– Please bring your face mask or suitable face covering to enter the exhibit, unless exempt from doing so.
NOTE: Entry to ESTATE is strictly at the time stated on your ticket – unfortunately, if you miss your time slot, we won’t be able to allow you entry, so please make sure you arrive in plenty of time.
Discover the heyday of Burton Constable’s glittering social scene as the Elizabethan hall looks at the last great gasp of extravagance under Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable, his first wife the lovely Lady Marianne and her scandalous successor the headstrong Rosina.
This ground-breaking exhibition will tell the tales of a time of plenty, when patronage and parties made this hidden gem an instrumental force in Hull’s social and entertainment scenes.
With grand house parties for musical soirees and days at the races, family theatricals and grand tours abroad, this display will give a tantalising glimpse of how the Victorian aristocracy filled their days of idleness, forging local and international friendships, changing not only the social scenes but the economies of the areas they called home.
Despite being hidden deep in the Holderness countryside, the Hall and its owners have on the town of Hull, a thriving place of industry and artistry in the Victorian boom times.
Join us as we reveal how the Constable family kept abreast of change as Victorian advances revolutionised technology and transport, bringing modern technology to Burton Constable and travelling across Britain and Europe to bring home tastes of the exotic to this fantastic hall.
Free with Hall admission.
Creative HullCreative Hull is a weekend long celebration of the creativity and culture that Hull has to offer, taking place from the 16 -18 July 2021.
Occupying disused shops and buildings, outdoor spaces, existing venues and taking place digitally, Creative Hull is a moment to celebrate our city’s culture and the role it can play as we emerge from this last year – responding to the changes brought and shaping a new optimistic future.
Full Creative Hull programme click here: Creative Hull
Luke Jerram was last was at Freedom Festival with Lullaby in 2020 and was the artist behind the hugely popular Museum of the Moon in 2018; We are delighted that he is joining us in 2021 with his latest work GAIA.
Created from 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface the artwork provides the opportunity to see our planet, floating in three dimensions.
The installation aims to create a sense of the Overview Effect, which was first described by author Frank White in 1987. Common features of the experience for astronauts are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment..
For Freedom Festival, audiences will experience this amazing installation surrounded by trees (thanks to The Woodland Trust) with a bespoke soundscape.
During the Festival there will be a series of special events underneath GAIA including an especially commissioned performance by The Broken Orchestra, and the culmination of a project based around climate change in association with Westcott Primary School.
Dates and ticketing details for these extra events will be released over the coming weeks.
Humber Street Gallery is pleased to present Enjoy Civic Life, an exhibition of new work by Leo Fitzmaurice. Logos and signs are reworked and repurposed as an exploration into our relationship with branding, identity, architecture, and the history of objects.
The artist will focus on the way these image-word-symbols have lives alongside ours – altering and adapting, like us, to the changing world around us.
Through a mixture of installation, sculpture and video, Fitzmaurice has responded to a collection of mounted plaques on display in Hull’s Guildhall, which have been produced by local company GK Beaulah & Co Ltd since 1939.
Due to current Covid-19 rules regarding Social Distancing, booking is a required in advance.
A small but important collection of British paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints produced between 1890-1940.
The university’s art collection can be found on the ground floor of the Brynmor Jones Library.
Permanent collection:
Featured artists include Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, Lucien Pissarro, Augustus John, Stanley Spencer, Percy Wyndham Lewis and Ben Nicholson as well as sculpture by Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Henry Moore.
The Bloomsbury artists are also well represented, and there are cartoons and costume designs. Also on display are the two Thompson collections of Chinese Ceramics, and occasional loan exhibitions.
An exhibition to mark Black History Month is taking place in Hull’s Old Town.
The exhibition will run from Saturday 17 October until Saturday 31 October, merging themes of migration, inclusivity and community.
It will form part of the Hull High Street Heritage Action Zone project funded by Historic England, taking place at Trinity Market, Hepworth Arcade and on Whitefriargate at the old M&S building and number 18, opposite Cooplands bakery.
The exhibition will challenge the misconception that Black presence has a brief history in the makeup of Britain as evident in the themes: family life, sport, entertainment, maritime, service personnel and human rights.
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
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