Monet’s masterpiece, The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil (1872), go on display at the gallery as part of The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2025 – 27.
The artwork will form part of an exhibition co-curated with Flourish, Ferens Art Gallery’s creative group for children and young people, organised with and for disabled and neurodivergent visitors.
Together, they will create a multi-sensory immersive space that is an olfactory, acoustic and tactile experience.
Explore the stories and secrets behind dozens of works as we bring the collection stores into the public galleries at the Ferens.
This is also a chance to contribute your views and ideas for our future and learn how you can support us to throw the party of the century as we celebrate our 100th year in 2027.
A painting is not merely an image that can be reproduced in a book, magazine or on a screen. Every picture belonging to the Ferens is a physical object that needs care and expertise to ensure its survival for future generations.
Find out how you can support the gallery to conserve, restore and care for the amazing collections we hold for the city of Hull.
Join us for a bold and colourful exhibition in the Museums Quarter this Spring, as we celebrate the lives of twenty historical women who changed the world, spanning from the 1500’s to the present day.
A collection of works by Doncaster-based artist Chinwe Russell will be on display, depicting well-known modern and historical figures from Marie Curie and Zaha Hadid to Florence Nightingale, in addition to images of many lesser-known women whose achievements continue to shape our daily lives.
Free entry
Step into the charming world of the Moomins with a specially curated interactive exhibition at Hull’s stunning Ferens Art Gallery.
The exhibition celebrates the beloved stories and enchanting artwork of Tove Jansson’s Moomin characters. Wander through beautifully crafted island installations that invite little people to explore big feelings, discover projections of Tove Jansson’s stunning paintings, and experience the gentle magic, curiosity, and wonder that have captured hearts for generations. This immersive celebration honours Tove’s enduring creativity, warmth, and imagination.
Free, drop-in.
Celebrated annually on the 17th October, International Sawfish Day (ISD) aims to raise awareness of sawfish and the challenges they face in our world’s oceans.
Come along and enjoy sawfish talks running throughout the day.
Stop by our ‘Sawfie Station’ and tag us in your photos @thedeephull!
Don’t miss our social media competition to be in with the chance to win some sawfish themed goodies!
ISD was established as a collaboration between the Sawfish Species Survival Plan (SSP) of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) studbook program, as well as research and conservation organisations.
Humber Street Gallery is proud to present Affinity Without Finality, the final exhibition of its artist development programme INTER_CHANGE, showcasing new work by early-career artists Chloe Barker, Emily Fratson, Zivarna Murphy, Victoria Smith and Isaac Yeboah.
Since December 2024, the five artists have worked closely with the Gallery’s team through creative workshops, retreats, mentoring and professional development. Over the course of the year, conversations between the artists and team kept returning to one theme: friendship.
What does it mean to make with one another, to support each other, and to hold space for care, complexity and connection?
Taking inspiration from artist Céline Condorelli’s reflections on friendship as a form of cultural production, Affinity Without Finality explores how collective responsibility and togetherness shape creative practice. The exhibition brings together ceramics, textiles, drawing and photography to consider friendship as both subject and process, with each artist offering their own interpretation while remaining deeply connected to the group.
INTER_CHANGE, which ran from 2021–2025, provided early-career artists in Hull and the Humber with time, space and resources to experiment, reflect and grow. The programme was designed to help artists build confidence and resilience in the early stages of their careers, while forming networks that would continue to support their practice long after the programme ended.
This closing exhibition celebrates not only the achievements of the five participating artists, but also the spirit of collaboration that has defined INTER_CHANGE since it began. While this is the final chapter for the programme, Humber Street Gallery continues its commitment to artist development through the Fruit Factory Guild, a new support network for artists, curators and cultural practitioners across the region.
Affinity Without Finality invites audiences to experience work shaped by dialogue, care and creative friendship in an exhibition that captures the power of making and being together.
The Lord Mayor’s annual Christmas Tree Festival will return to Hull Minster this December.
The popular free event will run from Tuesday 2 December to Wednesday 24 December and will see over 50 decorated trees fill up the church.
The event will be opened by The Lord Mayor and Reverend Dominic Black at 11am on 2nd Dec 25
Businesses and organisations, and individuals, can get involved by providing a tree, which can be decorated during the set-up day at the Minster on Monday 1 December, between 10am and 4pm.
A donation of £10 per tree will go to the Lord Mayor’s Charity Appeal Fund.
To enter complete the form https://hullminster.org/s/Christmas-Tree-Booking-Form-230725-pdf.pdf or telephone Civic Office and pay £10 donation to Alison Henderson 01482 615093 or Karen 07523 947495
Set up day is Monday 1 December – between 10am and 4pm
Take down day is Monday 5 January 2026 – between 10am and 4pm.
Enter via North Door 10am-3pm. Church closes at 4pm.
Anyone decorating a tree is asked to use battery powered lights only. No real trees thank you. We cannot water them.
14th to 25th October 2025
Tuesday to Saturday 10-4pm
‘My paintings are made in layers, often starting off with thin colour that builds to more opaque layers as the painting proceeds. A variety of mark-making techniques are used to develop textures and other effects. At times, paint may be removed to achieve or enhance a surface quality. The result is that of one dimension viewed through another, or the interaction of different dimensions in a liminal space. In more recent paintings, still-life elements appear, along with their abstract counterparts.’
The Underground Spiritual Game – Fela Kuti: Visual Storytelling on Global Impact
As part of Black History Month 2025, The Gidi Vibes™ and Morpheus Multimedia present a landmark exhibition at Wilberforce House Museum, Hull. Running from 1 October – 2 November 2025, the exhibition explores the life and legacy of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti through rare photography, visual art, memorabilia, and archival materials.
Curated in collaboration with heritage experts, artists, and cultural custodians, the exhibition highlights:
Opening on 1 October — coinciding with Nigeria’s Independence Day — the exhibition also marks the start of Hull’s Black History Month programme.
Special highlights:
This exhibition creates space for reflection, learning, and celebration — connecting African history with Hull’s heritage of emancipation and global solidarity.
Launch 3 October 2025 | 6-8 PM (quiet hour 5-6pm)
87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP
Exhibition tour with Emma Prempeh (free to attend): Saturday 4 October 2025, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Reflecting on her London upbringing and her African-Caribbean heritage, Emma Prempeh consistently returns to the theme of home. Utilising magic realism, she re-examines diasporic identity through storytelling and myth, commenting on the circularity of time and memory. Her work assesses her personal relationship with place and highlights the stories of others who share a similar existence.
For The Nearness of Elsewhere, Prempeh has created an immersive installation of painting and digital projection. The exhibition aims to transport visitors to an environment that feels equally distant and familiar, encapsulating diasporic experience in the UK and beyond. It is inspired by research visits to Hull, where the artist led workshops and attended community gatherings to incorporate the stories of local people and places. Flowers from local greenspaces are merged with blooms from Prempeh’s native South London. Interiors featuring bay windows, such as those commonly seen in terrace houses around Hull, collide with views of the Humber Bridge as seen from the Humber Bridge Country Park, a marker of returning home for many who live here.
This summer, Prempeh invited people in Hull to contribute creatively to the canvases, encouraging reflection on interiors and natural environments that hold personal significance. Visitors collaborated with her to add their stories in text, image and mark-making. Look carefully to see these expressions amongst Prempeh’s fluid brushstrokes, and visit Our Community Gallery to explore them in detail.
Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary
Incognito is the embodiment of multiple identities originally constructed by Cosey Fanni Tutti to function within the glamour industry between 1973 and 1981. The industry comprised modelling agencies, soft-porn magazine publishers and their distributors, as well as a network of venues: studios, pubs and clubs across London.
This eponymous exhibition brings together film, vinyl music, costumes, performance documentation, press cuttings, and correspondence; many rare material items from Cosey’s personal archive never previously exhibited.
In 1977, prompted by a conversation with two girls while modelling for a magazine shoot, Cosey began researching her striptease act. She successfully auditioned as Scarlet, a pseudonym adopted for her stage act by which she was signed by entertainment agency GEMINI. Having designed and made her own costumes, selected the 7” vinyl records for her acts, she began work as a topless dancer across London, principally in its pubs.
Cosey simultaneously continued her modelling, dancing, art actions and work with Throbbing Gristle. The points of correspondence and divergence which these worlds offered was something which Cosey was privately exploring. Her body was the primary material of her art actions, modelling and dancing – the convergence of which is presented in the 18 part photo-work Life Forms.
Woman’s Roll comprises a 30 part black and white photo-sequence documenting Cosey’s first autonomous action at the Air Gallery in 1976. In this serialised self-portrayal she is liberated from the dictats and protocols of the glamour industry. These solo performances were contemporaneous to and synergistic with sonic performances and recordings by Throbbing
Gristle which had emerged from COUM Transmissions at their exhibition Prostitution at the ICA the same year.
In 1979 Cosey asked fellow artist and Throbbing Gristle member Sleazy (aka Peter Christopherson) to photographically document her complete wardrobe of striptease costumes. The shoot took place at Hipgnosis, a studio where Sleazy worked as a graphic designer, based in London’s Denmark Street, renowned for designing album covers for luminaries of mainstream rock – Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, UFO and T Rex, to name but a few.
Harmonic COUMaction, a mutating autobiographical collage of Cosey’s life in Hull, was made to be projected as part of a commissioned live performance for Hull City of Culture, 2017. Cosey composed the soundtrack live on stage at the Fruit venue, Hull.
Behind each costume, record, magazine image and art action, is a story, a memorable incident, a person, a conversation. It all began in Hull.
Image: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Cabinet Gallery, London
Allowing the fishing industry and the docks to expand into national and global markets, the railway played a key role in Hull’s development into an industrial and maritime powerhouse. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of modern rail, Hull History Centre will be hosting a special exhibition which will explore the history of the railway in Hull.
The History Centre’s collections contain a wealth of information on the railway’s construction and expansion in the city, from the opening of the first line in 1840, to the privatisation of the industry in the 1990s. The exhibition will look at the development of the rail network in the local area, with special reference to the docks, and will explore key historical events and themes including transmigration, the First and Second World Wars, stations and locomotives, and the men and women who built and worked on the tracks.
The full Exhibition runs 23 September – 30 October 2025 with a condensed exhibition running until 11 December 2025
Over the Autumn of 2024 volunteers from across Hull, and the wider region, came together with Humber Field Archaeology to dig into the archaeology and history of the Drypool area of the city.
The dig, within the former open yard space of Clarence Flour Mill, revealed the hidden story at the heart of the village of Drypool, a story that stretches back 700 years.
One year on from the dig come along to a new temporary exhibition to find out more about what was found on the site, and delve deeper into the fascinating story of Drypool and its inhabitants.
After a successful tour of the region the rats are all heading to one location!
Come nose to to snout with all 45 uniquely decorated, 6ft sculptures before the Grand Charity Auction on Saturday 20th, September.
Open 11am – 5pm
Children under 16 FREE accompanied by an adult.
Joseph Cox
Rachel Anderson
Layla Jabbari
Zivarna Murphy
John Dearing
Artistic medium ranging from Illustration to ceramics, print work, textiles and projections.
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