The Knife Angel

A 27ft sculpture made of knives is coming to Hull to show the impact of knife crime and culture.

The sculpture, ‘Knife Angel’, is made up with over 100,000 weapons collected in a knife amnesty. It is in the shape of an angel and engraved with messages from families of victims of knife crime.

The sculpture was made to tour the UK but has so far only been shown in Liverpool – making Hull the second city to host it.

It will be visiting the city as part of the #NoMoreKnifes campaign, launched by Hull Live last year alongside the RICH Foundation in a bid to rid the region’s streets of knife crime.

The exhibition will take place in The Rose Bowl inside Queen’s Gardens.

Hessle Road Stamps Exhibition

London based designer Sallyann Mason, born in Hull, has been inspired by such an incredible community of Women from 50 years ago of Hessle Road, that to celebrate the year of the 50th year anniversary of this group of women’s powerful endeavour to rock the establishment and save the future lives of thousands of men in their community and the rest of the world, that she has taken it upon herself to design a traveling story campaign which has quite literally traveled the World in 80 days in the old fashioned way via Land, Sea and Air and has brought the incredibly inspirational story of the Headscarf Revolutionaries into communities in over 78 global cities in 26 countries across 6 continents, places such as Damascus, Colombia, Iran, Beijing, to name a few.

Times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Sunday 1pm to 8pm

“Any Old Rag Bone”

To this day, horse and carts collecting scrap metal are a regular sight on the streets of Hull.

The call of “rag bone” can be heard down the ‘tenfoots’ and passages, letting people know to bring out any unwanted goods to be recycled.

This exhibition will focus on this familiar but often uncelebrated aspect of Hull’s social history and will display unique photographs from three generations of Hull rag and bone men. These evocative images are from the Norris family collection, dating from 1968 up to the current day.

Microbes Ferens

Microbes

The Ferens Gallery will be transformed by a glowing landscape of suspended inflatable microbe pods of differing shapes and sizes. This interactive exhibition is inspired by the beautiful microscopic imagery of bacteria and cells that live within us.

Visitors can walk through the pods causing them to sway and bump into each other. Every few minutes the suspended forms will slowly deflate and then inflate as if breathing, creating a mesmerising spectacle.

This exhibition promises to be a fascinating family friendly exhibition and not one to be missed

Masterpieces in Focus from the Royal Collection

An ongoing partnership with Royal Collection Trust brings a masterpiece by Hans Holbein the Younger to Hull for the first time, generously lent by Her Majesty The Queen from the Royal Collection. A portrait drawing of Sir Thomas More (1478-1535). The portrait, likely connected to a single oil portrait of the sitter, shows his head and shoulders facing three-quarters to the right. He wears a hat and fur collar. The drawing has been pricked for transfer. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: Tho: Moor Ld Chancelour.

Hans Holbein was born in Augsburg, Germany, trained in Basel, Switzerland and spent a total of thirteen years in England, in 1526-8 and 1532-43. The major work of Holbein’s first period in England was a portrait of the family of Sir Thomas More and during the latter period he became the most important artist at the court of Henry VIII. A small display focusing on preparatory studies and final artworks from the Ferens Art Gallery’s permanent collection will be highlighted alongside Holbein’s masterpiece. Holbein’s Sir Thomas More portrait marks the third of five exceptional works of art from the Royal Collection to go on display at the Ferens Art Gallery between 2017 and 2021.

David Fulford Quilt

Interior

This is the first exhibition of 2019 in Studio 11 Gallery. It will feature painter David Fulford and ceramicist Katharina Klug.

“A bed, some linen, a duvet – though less than four square yards, this is where we live out a third of our lives. It is a place of birth, sickness, death, passion, conflict, alienation, sensuality, comfort, refuge, and serenity.

Within the music of these folds we find indications of absence and of presence..” – David Fulford

“While striving for perfection in the shape of the vessel, I deliberately embrace imperfections in my surface pattern designs. I draw freehand onto the form using my trademark crayons.

These hand-drawn lines make the work lively, rough, immediate and unique and preserve the moment of mark- making.” – Katharina Klug

Preview Saturday 2nd February 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 – Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery.

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize celebrates the vitality and excellence in portrait photography today. This prize is one of the most important platforms for contemporary portrait photographers internationally, and reproductions of the selected works provide an excellent overview of current photography styles, trends and techniques.

Wednesday – Monday 10 am – 5 pm
Tuesday 10 am – 7 pm

Admission is free. Donations welcome.

Extraordinarium Museum of Haunted Items

Venture in an old 1876 Funeral Parlour now being converted into a haunted museum, 13 rooms of which one is a secret room. Each funeral room and artefact allows you to sense, feel or touch ghostly energies. They say seeing is believing so pop along and you’ll experience it for real. One of the world’s most haunted items the ‘Dybbuk’ box (malicious spirit)is on show, the monster house items are here (Sony’s Animated Film), a deathly pirate cannon ball is on show along with the spontaneous human combustion artefacts. Stand where ‘Most haunted’ filmed the moving chair and there’s still more on our website!

Diversity: An Exhibition

Wentworth Art Group is a friendly and welcoming social art group hosted by Ann Teale in her studio and gallery alongside the pottery run by her husband Mark in the grounds of Wentworth House Guest House, Aldbrough. Non of the members are professional artists but are enthusiasts whose aim is to develop a positive and encouraging atmosphere of mutual self-help, support and guidance, where the process of making art is as important as the product.
The exhibition pieces encompass media such as: watercolour and acrylic painting, printmaking, pottery, ceramic painting, collage and textiles produced through differing styles and approaches. They reflect the fascinating range of interests and skills amongst the group members and have been selected to show the diversity in creativity and artistry found in even a small group of people.

Location: Carriage House, Burton Constable Hall
Open daily 10am – 4pm
Included with the normal admission charges.

The Winter Show

The Winter Show presents four artists whose interpretation of the landscape manifests in diverse presentations. Their craft and imagination are highly respected: Lesley Seeger ‘Contemporary Still’ – Life Paintings, Mandy Cheng – Laminated Porcelain (Nerikomi Technique), Ilona Sulikova – Raku Fired Ceramics and Adele Howitt ‘Ceramic Landscape’ – Ceramic Vessels & Sculptures. Buy affordable art for Christmas from our gallery artist and artist members.

Look out for Christmas offers and our new selection of prints and quirky Christmas decorations made in Yorkshire, in our studio.

Greetings and Glad Tidings

The Hull History Centre is putting on an exhibition looking into the history of the Christmas card. There will be lots to see visually and we hope to get people talking about Christmas past as we approach the 2018 festive season.

Inspiration for this exhibition came from a desire to know whether or not Christmas cards, once an integral part of Christmas, have a future in the age that we now live, dominated by social media and digital information.

The exhibition focuses on how the design of Christmas cards has changed as well as the sentiments and language used in them. It has been amazing to find how individual cards often have a story behind them and evoke memories of a bygone time.

We hope you will come into the History Centre and look at the examples we have chosen to display, dating from 1868 to 2014. Through reading the text that accompanies some of the images, you will also find out useful things about our wider collections here at the Hull History Centre.

We are also carrying out a survey to help us to assess what the future of the Christmas card might be? Simply pick up a form, complete it and pop it in our Victorian pillar box. The results will be posted on our website in the New Year.

Hessle Roaders

Hessle Roaders: Artist-Led Tours

Join Photographer Dr Alec Gill MBE as he takes you on a tour of his photo exhibition, the Hessle Roaders, which captures life in Hull’s former Fishing Community during the 1970s/80s.

The artist-led tours are available on the following days:

  • Tuesday 4 December, 11.00am
  • Saturday 8 December, 2.00pm
  • Tuesday 11 December, 11.00am
  • Thursday 13 December, 2.00pm
  • Tuesday 18 December, 11.00am
  • Saturday 22 December, 2.00pm

Click here to find out more information about the exhibition.

To book your place please email culture@hull.ac.uk or ring 01482 465683

Hessle Roaders

The Hessle Roaders by Alec Gill

This winter the University of Hull’s Brynmor Jones Library will be the home of a popular photography exhibition by photographer and historian Dr. Alec Gill MBE. The Hessle Roaders, captures life in Hull’s former Fishing Community during the 1970s and 1980s.

The exhibition was a highlight of Hull’s year as UK City of Culture when three showings of the images broke audience attendance records. At Hull History Centre, for example, it attracted over 8,000 visitors.

Dr. Gill began the work whilst studying his Psychology degree at the University between 1974 and 1977. People have always been central to the study and Alec, who sometimes describes himself as “a psychologist with a camera” aiming to capture everyday life,took over 6,500 negatives that capture the pre-digital world when children played street games, corner shops abounded, and the port had a powerful deep-sea trawling fleet.

In 1971, local historian Alec Gill spent time on Hessle Road capturing its residents with his Rolleicord camera. Hessle Road had a strong, working-class identity, as an area where Hull’s trawlermen and their families lived, in addition to many warehouse and factory workers. It was also the home of the famous trawler safety campaigner, Lillian Bilocca.

In 2017, Alec’s black and white photographs transport us back in time to the period where Hessle Road was the heart of Hull’s fishing community. These snapshots touch upon the everyday lives of the road’s inhabitants, with children playing on the streets, neighbours gossiping in the terraces, dock workers going about their business and Three-Day Millionaires having a ball.

Traenerhus: Christmas Shopper Night

Join us for a Christmas Shopping Experience, Traenerhus style!

Meet the makers, craft demos, shop for Christmas with friends whilst having a mince pie with a glass of mulled wine in our lovely High Street shop and gallery on Wednesday 21st November from 5:30-9pm at 167 High Street, Hull

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Hot Off The Press

An exciting new exhibition by local printmakers, the Hull Print Collective in the tranquil setting of The Carriage House at the Burton Constable Stables.

Hull Print Collective is an evolving group of printmakers employing a personal approach covering a wide range of subject matter.
The group explores a wide variety of printmaking techniques including etching, lino, collagraph, monotype and screen print.
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.
Some members are currently in the process of producing prints which are inspired by Burton Constable Hall, the grounds and surrounding area. These will be on display at our ‘Hot off the Press’ exhibition which will be in the Stable Block Tea Rooms and the Carriage House Gallery from November 6th to December 21st 2018.

Location: The Carriage House, Burton Constable Stables

Open daily 11am – 5pm and included with the normal admission charges.

Ian McKeever: Paintings 1992 – 2017

Ian McKeever RA (b.1946) is a contemporary British artist. He grew up in Withernsea, East Yorkshire and was inspired early on by the Ferens’ permanent collection, especially Stanley Spencer’s Greenhouse and Garden, 1937, and maritime paintings by Thomas Binks and John Ward.

McKeever’s first solo exhibition took place at the ICA, London in 1973. His early work as a painter grew out of a conceptual interest in landscape, painting and photography in which often a photographic element was juxtaposed with a drawing or overpainted. However, around 1988 his work became more engaged with painting alone. His later works have an emphasis on an abstract language which is concerned primarily with the human body and architectural structures. At the same time the quality of light and its presence in the painting became increasingly important. Often the works are monumental in format. Since 2007 he has reengaged with the photographic element in his work.

McKeever’s work is represented in leading international public collections, including Tate, British Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Museum of Fine Art, Budapest; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Boston Museum of Fine Art.

Since 1990 the artist has lived and worked in Hartgrove, Dorset.

KWL – Principal sponsor of the Ferens exhibition programme 2018/19.