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“Michelangelo – A Different View”

Tickets for the Sistine Chapel exhibition at Hull Minster are now available.

This exhibition displays Michelangelo’s world-famous work up close for the first time, giving visitors unprecedented access to the artist’s magnificent paintings which adorn the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

“Michelangelo – A Different View” is coming to Hull Minster from October 8 to November 18 – one of only two UK venues to host it – after touring major European cities, including Copenhagen, Prague and Amsterdam.

Officially licensed by the Vatican Museums, the stunning exhibition will allow visitors to view superb reproductions of the elaborate paintings of the Florentine master from a distance of only two metres, with no time constraints, meaning they will be able to appreciate fully their beauty and fine detail.

It will be the only opportunity for people across the North of England to see Michelangelo’s work, so it is expected to be hugely popular and draw visitors from far and wide.

Hull Minster has made the exhibition free to enter to enable as many people as possible to experience Michelangelo’s genius up close, but is asking visitors to show their appreciation by donating what they can to support the church’s vital work supporting some of the most vulnerable members of the community.

To create the exhibition, the E4Y team and the Vatican Museums worked together to produce high resolution versions of photographs taken of the frescoes in the 1990s and transfer the images onto special fabric webs to create highly-detailed display panels. This technique allows a true-to-life reproduction of the paintings and gives visitors an otherwise impossible close-up view of Michelangelo’s brushwork.

By separating the paintings into a series of panels, the exhibition allows art lovers to study closely individual elements of the overall artwork and specific aspects of Michelangelo’s artistry.

It means that, for the first time, the elaborate reproductions allow visitors an intimate closeness to the magnificent frescoes of the Florentine genius – a privilege only a handful of people have enjoyed before the “A Different View” exhibition was created.

Previously, visitors to the Vatican Museums in Rome have only been offered an overall impression of the frescoes on the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The works are 22 metres above visitors’ heads, making it impossible to admire the work in all its splendour and detail.

Now, far away from the enormous streams of sightseers at the Sistine Chapel, visitors to Hull Minster will have the opportunity to take in the breathtaking paintings at their leisure.

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned sculptor and painter Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni – known simply as Michelangelo – to paint the huge ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Michelangelo and his assistants spent four years on scaffolding under the vaulted ceiling creating his astounding Renaissance masterpiece. Faced by the challenge presented by the chapel’s architecture, he developed unique painting techniques, setting new standards for future generations of artists.

Michelangelo was originally commissioned only to paint the 12 apostles, but persuaded the Pope to let him depict scenes and individuals of his own choosing. Consequently, the chapel is peopled with more than 300 characters from the Bible.

The work was completed in 1512 and has been adored by artists across the world for more than 500 years as well as being admired by four million visitors each year to the Sistine Chapel.

The complex artwork includes the most famous painting of them all – the “Creation of Adam”, a depiction of God giving life to the first man – which forms part of the new exhibition. Another major attraction is a spectacular six metres square reproduction of Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement”, which covers the whole of the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.

Securing the breath-taking exhibition is a major coup for Hull Minster, which has become an iconic, multi-use venue, community and cultural hub as a result of a transformational development project.

“A Different View” will be supported by an extensive programme of events and family-friendly activities to engage the public with the extraordinary work of art in the majestic setting of the 700-year-old church, with further details to be announced in due course.

 

The National Archives of the Republic of the Homeless

Artist Vanessa Cardui has spent six months working with members of Hull’s homeless community and Artlink on a project that has become this exhibition, which will go on show from June to August.

Through this exhibition, Vanessa hopes to present a glimpse into understanding what it’s like having no home. This comes in the form of an archive- an effort to organise artworks made by the homeless and ex-homeless of Hull. Cardui aims to confront questions of value, authenticity, belonging, loss, and the idea that anyone’s history can be buried when certain structures fall out of place.

open 10 am – 4 pm, Monday to Saturday

#BEYOUTY

The Bonus Arena and Viking FM in association with HULLBID are delighted to present The #beYOUty Show on Saturday 28th September 2019. #beYOUty is a one stop shop for everything including fashion, health, well-being, hair, aesthetics’, cosmetics, make-up, entertainment, treatment’s, accessories and more!!!!

Guests will be welcomed to shop, place orders, learn about products and treatments, receive services and book in with suppliers. The bar’s will be open serving prosecco, gin, mocktail’s and snacks throughout the day.

The show is free to attend and includes in stage for demonstrations and feature’s and showcase’s.

VIP Packages will be available to make a real day of it!

Pulling the British Threads in Moby-Dick

Pulling the British threads in Moby-Dick; prints, handmade books and textile work by Caroline Hack inspired by the British sources Melville used in Moby-Dick.

This year is the 200th birthday of Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. To celebrate, Norfolk based artist Caroline Hack is exploring the British books that the author used extensively as inspiration for his epic whaling adventure.

It was in Thomas Beale’s book The Natural History of the Sperm Whale that Melville learned about the Sperm Whale Skeleton at Burton Constable Hall. Whitby Whaler and scientist William Scoresby junior is mentioned several times in Moby-Dick (though not always kindly) for his Arctic whaling and scientific studies.
Caroline Hack has been making art about Moby-Dick and British Arctic whaling for over a decade. She exhibits widely and has work in a number of institutions in the UK and US.

For more information about the artist visit www.carolinehack.com
Location: The Carriage House, Burton Constable Stables
This exhibition is included with the normal admission charges.

HULL COMIC CON 2019

Hull Comic Con 2019

The event will include  guests, panels, stalls, workshops fun and games.

More details coming soon

THE CUCUMBER FELL IN THE SAND

Through her ongoing interest in the subject of self-care, Liverpool-based artist Frances Disley investigates Hull’s rich heritage around food, with an exhibition that features sculpture, painting, textiles and plant life. The Cucumber Fell in the Sand is supported by an extensive programme of activities, events and take home objects that celebrate the goodness of people and nature.

The exhibition has been devised in collaboration with artists Gregory Herbert, CBS Studios (Joseph Hulme, Liam Peacock & Theo Vass) and Foodsketz (Alison Claire & Cat Smith). Each of the artists have collectively explored the philosophies of American architect and systems theorist Buckminister Fuller as well as Hull’s own Joseph Rank of Joseph Rank Limited. Both, pioneers in environmentalism and food production.

The two-floor exhibition examines our relationship with food through living sculptures. Gallery 1 focusing on scent disseminating devices which enhance relaxation, rest and reflection. The exhibition continues to Gallery 2 with mobile planters filled with vegetables and scented plants associated with stimulation and energy as well as sculptural filtration systems that explore how food is produced commercially.

JADE MONTSERRAT: INSTITUTING CARE

This installation of work by Scarborough-based artist Jade Montserrat, consists of large-scale charcoal drawings made directly on the walls of the gallery. The drawings offer fragmented reflections of the artists experience navigating her way through education, working as an artist and living in the UK. Amongst the drawings sits a structure that will be host to a series of events relating to care and education.

Instituting Care was developed in 2018 whilst Montserrat worked as the artist in residence at Bluecoat, Liverpool’s Centre for the Contemporary Arts. Whilst in residence, Montserrat met local artists, educators and activists in Liverpool, some of whom will be facilitating related events during the exhibition.

Hull Fishing Heritage Centre

We have now opened the Hull Fishing Heritage Centre where we have a fine display of model trawlers and various fishing artefacts along with paintings and prints of trawlers and other fishing related scenes.

You are welcome to, working to perpetuate come and browse and chat to our staff to swap tales of your fishing and Hessle Road memories. The Hull Bullnose Heritage Group are actively involved in the community, working to perpetuate the memory of the 6000 men who sailed from the port of Hull, never to return.

The Hull Bullnose Heritage Group have also been instrumental in installing 23 pieces of ‘Street Art’ including memorial ‘Bethel-Boards’ and murals along Hessle Road, the heart of Hull’s fishing industry.

Ecstatic Rituals

ECSTATIC RITUALS

Through a series of sculpture, performance and installation Ecstatic Rituals explores the tradition of Hull Fair. Reflecting on urban folklore as well as past and present notions of “Britishness”, this exhibition considers the city’s medieval era when the fair was started and when the city of Hull was one of the main sites for international imports to the UK.

Contributing artists: Faye Spencer, Anna FC Smith, Mike S Redmond and Faye Coral Johnson, Tom Ireland, Medieval Helpdesk.

Hull and the Spanish Civil War

Nine men from Hull fought for the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. Five never returned. One Hull woman, Frida Knight, served as an ambulance driver. The History Centre is delighted to team up with The History Troupe, Hull College and the Hull International Brigade Memorial Trust to tell their story.

This Hull and the Spanish Civil War Exhibition features the core story from the Hull International Brigade Memorial Group; images from Hull College students inspired by the conflict; and  and performances on a range of related topics from The History Troupe, Gary Hammond and Manuel Moreno.

Awesome Animals – Children’s Day

Join us for an amazing opportunity for children and their friends and family to enjoy the wonderful Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition and also the stunning sculptures of British wildlife by artist Anna Stothard.
Visitors to the exhibition will be entertained by some larger-than-life creatures who are at the Treasure House for the day. There’ll be a pair of mischievous pigeons, and a couple of attention-seeking gulls pottering around the exhibition spaces.

There’ll be face painting, and a fun trail to follow around the exhibition. The day will also feature animal handing (morning session) and craft (afternoon session) which are subject to a small charge and are recommended to be booked in advance.

Sixteen

What’s it like to be sixteen years old now?

In this major touring exhibition leading contemporary photographers join forces with more than one hundred and seventy sixteen-year-olds across the UK to explore their dreams, hopes and fears and who and what they care about.

Photographer Craig Easton conceived this ambitious project in collaboration with sixteen-year-olds at the time of the Scottish independence referendum. It was the first, and as yet only time in in the United Kingdom sixteen-year-olds have been given the vote. Building on the success of this work he invited some of the UK’s foremost documentary portrait photographers to collaborate with him and young people to create visual vox pops on what it means to be sixteen now.

Photographers Robert C Brady, Linda Brownlee, Lottie Davies, Jillian Edelstein, Stuart Freedman, Sophie Gerrard, Kalpesh Lathigra, Roy Mehta, Christopher Nunn, Kate Peters, Simon Roberts, Michelle Sank, and Abbie Trayler-Smith joined Craig Easton to develop and produce Sixteen. Working with photography, film, social media, audio recordings and writing, they brought together the faces and testimonies of young people from diverse communities across the UK, giving prominence to voices rarely heard.

Sixteen spring touring programme

Hull Central Library celebrates the first touring exhibition in its new gallery space. Jillian Edelstein’s suite of stunning portraits, made in collaboration with the Hull Warren Youth Project and Wilberforce College students, was shot in a pop-up classroom studio. Each sixteen-year-old included the title of a favourite song in their testimony as another way of telling their story. Photographic, FaceTime and video portraits of young people in areas reaching from the Scottish Islands and Cornwall and shown in the Library with their Hull contemporaries, as an integral part of the Sixteenproject.

Synthesis

‘Synthesis’ is Studio Eleven’s 3rd exhibition of 2019 and features Barry Stedman, Ceramicist and Lesley Williams, Painter.

Barry’s work is loosely thrown and altered on the potter’s wheel or constructed from slabs of clay. He regards the vessels as vehicles to explore contrasts created in the everyday by natural phenomena – light and shade, hard and soft, warm and cool colours, rough and smooth surfaces. Tensions and rhythms of pattern, alongside harmonies of colour, are captured in the applied painterly surfaces permanently, in pure materials to create pots which explore the ‘in – between’. Pots are complimented with his gouache drawings of colour, spaces, lines and textures found in ceramic form and surface in the exhibition.

Ideas begin with sketches and are developed through drawing, painting, and multiple firings of the ceramic forms simultaneously. The warmth and brightness of slips, oxides and underglazes fired to earthenware temperature kiln firings, applied over a red clay body creates depth and richness. The surfaces are fabricated in layers, firing in between using thin washes, wiping back and building up rich zones of colour. Glaze is selected and added later to create further depth, tone and texture.

Barry found ceramics later in life after a career in retail. He completed the Ceramics degree course with a first class BA (hons) at the University of Westminster in Harrow.

Lesley seeks to investigate what lies beyond the immediate surface of her environment, endeavouring to select the spaces around a subject to re-organise and intuitively ‘make up’ her perception. This translation is juxtaposed to produce brightly coloured paintings with the quality of colour captured from her investigations into gardens, ponds, and the wider landscape.Colour and translucency are at the heart of Lesley’s paintings. Her colour work is greatly influenced by the paintings of Bonnard and Redon. Paintings are semi – abstract compositions that select ways of seeing the gardens, water and the landscape. The painterly surface is invigorated further through her understanding of colour relationships, the imagined movement and form that suggest a feeling for a specific moment – captured in paint.

Lesley Williams was born in York and gained a BA (Hons) in Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University and later an MA in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University.

Faces of Slavery Exhibition

An exhibition of photographs by the Guardian from the Modern-day slavery in focus series Faces of Slavery.

It is a powerful exhibition of photographs, where portraits of human trafficking survivors are exhibited alongside their testimonies.

Free admission – all welcome.

The exhibition will run until the 2nd of June. It is located on the lower ground floor of the Larkin Building and is open daily 9.00am-5.00pm.

This exhibition is part of the ongoing partnership between the University of Hull and Freedom Festival Arts Trust.

No.44 – Fine Art Degree Show – Hull School of Art & Design

44th group of Fine Artists creating out of Hull School of Art and Designs Queens Garden’s Campus, the No.44 artists have worked hard to make this exhibition a degree show to remember.

Between them, these artists work across sculpture, collage, printmaking, installation, sound, painting, drawing, photography and mixed media.

The issues they address include industry, ecology and the environment, the process of making, moments in time, human identity and the juxtaposition between innocence and evil.

Everyone is welcome to attend the free Opening Event on Friday 31 May 6-9pm, at Hull School of Art and Design.

The exhibition will then run from 3-19 June opening every weekday, 9am-5pm, with late night opening on Mondays and Wednesday till 9pm.

Life Below Stairs

Have you ever wondered what life was like ‘below stairs’ at a Yorkshire country house? A fascinating new exhibition exploring the daily lives of servants at the grand Burton Constable Hall opens on 4th May 2019!

Containing glimpses of the hidden world of the servant’s hall, with its own strict hierarchy and limited comforts, this exhibition reveals the day-to-day details of life for servants at the hall from the 18th and 19th Centuries. Discover what life would have been like for Antoine Reny, Lady Clifford Constable’s fashionable French Lady’s Maid from Paris, and for Susan Hoe, the first housemaid in 1866. The display reveals the difficulties of life ‘below stairs’, but also the status that some servants held in the household and how close some came to being counted as family.

Find out more about the huge numbers of staff required to run a hall the size of Burton Constable, and the varied jobs they performed. How would you have fared as a 19th Century housemaid? Giving a fresh insight into life behind the scenes at Burton Constable and with activities for the whole family, this exhibition is one not to miss.