Hull Print Collective

Hull Print Collective

Free with admission.

Hull Print Collective is an evolving group of printmakers employing a very personal approach to printmaking media to realise observations, ideas, memories and feelings. The work on display will reflect this personal interest by adopting a graphic and abstract, decorative or narrative approach or by taking a realistic view of the world.

The Collective, whilst working at home, often in isolation meet weekly at Hull College printmaking class using the facilities to print and make final work. These regular meetings give an opportunity to exchange ideas, offer advice and support and to plan for future exhibitions.

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Spray The Whale

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

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.

Drink, Dance & Decadence Exhibition

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 Hull

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

Gaia by Luke Jerram

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.

Enjoy Civic Life

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.

University of Hull Art Collection

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.

Black History Month Exhibition

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.

You can read more about the event here

You can download a map of the exhibition here

Christopher Tansey: Window

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

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

Hull Story Map

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!

International Photography Exhibition 2020

The RPS International Photography Exhibition 162 featuring work from 43 international photographers tours the UK throughout 2020 and into 2021.

The exhibition will be on display at Beverley Art Gallery from 19 September – 16 November 2020.

Selected from a worldwide open call and curated by some of the most influential people in photography today, this edition includes stark landscapes made during periods of extended solitude, alongside images created using pinhole cameras (made from apples) which celebrate community orchards. Spirituality, family, identity, and inclusion are some of the powerful narratives explored this year.

The selection panel included Shannon Ghannam (Global Education Director at Magnum Photos), Skinder Hundal MBE (CEO/Director of New Art Exchange), Yan Wang Preston (Photographic Artist and lecturer at the University of Huddersfield) and Cian Oba-Smith (Editorial and Commercial Photographer), who were joined by RPS Director of Education Dr Michael Pritchard. They selected an exhibition enthused with storytelling, reflecting the concerns of the modern world.

Free Admission

Darren Rogers

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.

Ferens Art Gallery

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.

Please book online and in advance (FREE). This is to help us manage the number of people, limit queuing and reduce contact.

Tickets will be available at 15 minute intervals (with a maximum of 8 tickets available per interval)
Timeslots are available every 15 minutes Monday-Saturday 10am-3pm, Sunday 11am-2.30pm
Each visit is limited to one hour.
We’ll send your booking confirmation by email. Please make sure you fill in your correct email address when you book to ensure you receive your confirmation email
Tickets can be booked by clicking the link below or alternatively by phoning 01482 616 398
Please note we will be collecting the name and phone number and email address for the lead member of each party and their entry times to the gallery in line with the NHS’s Test and Trace system. Data will be kept for 21 days and then destroyed securely. All data will be handled in line with GDPR.

Jamie Crewe: Solidarity & Love

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*