Free, all welcome
The story of Sister Agnes Walsh (1896-1993), a nun in the Daughters of Charity who was instrumental in saving the lives of a Jewish family in France in 1944 and has been honoured as Righteous Among the Nations. Curated by her great-nephew Ian Judson.
Find out more about the Egyptian collections at the Hands on History Museum, including the famous Tutankhamun replicas created for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition. Sessions take place at: 12.30pm – 1.10pm 1.30pm – 2.20pm 2.30pm – 3.10pm
10th Annual Brooklands Photographic Society Exhibition
Free admission
16th to 20th September 10-4pm
Come and view some beautiful photography. Some of the works are also available to purchase.
Into the Light is an exhibition that tells the stories of Britain’s Black ballet dancers accompanied by activities and workshops encouraging people of all ages to engage with dance.
EXHIBITION:
Black dancers have been present in British ballet from at least the 1940s onwards but the presence and contribution of these pioneers has been largely forgotten.
Into the Light: The Pioneers of Black British Ballet exhibition at Hull Central Library aims to change this by celebrating the lives of these trailblazers. The exhibition brings together archive photography, film and news items alongside new interviews with the dancers themselves.
This groundbreaking exhibition, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, is brought to you by Libraries Connected and Oxygen Arts’ Black British Ballet project.
Visit us today to hear their stories.
EVENTS:
Hull Libraries are celebrating the history of Britain’s Black ballet dancers with a day of workshops and storytimes. Children can join in with dance sessions mixing ballet with contemporary, African and Caribbean dance, listen to the story of Onisere and her quest to be a ballet dancer and try out ballet for the first time. Please book tickets for these events using the links below:
10:00 – 11:30 / 1:30 – 3:00 – Dance Workshop (90 mins) – 7+
10:30 – 11.30 / 2:00 – 3:00 – Onisere and the Ballet Queen Storytime (60 mins) – 4-8yrs
12:00 – 12:45 / 3:30 – 4:15 – Ballet Family Workshop (45 mins) – 3-5yrs
Everyone can visit the Into the Light exhibition exploring the history of black dancers in British ballet and grab some refreshments in the Central Library Café.
🎨 Exhibition Alert!
We’re thrilled to announce that the talented @universao_ // @esthercachale will be returning to Brew for her second showcase, expect an evening full of art, music and expression, exhibiting her incredible collection of artwork from 26th July to 8th August! 🌟
Esther will have pieces for sale including originals and prints, this body of work includes vibrant and thought-provoking art that explore identity and emotion through bold colours and layered textures!
📍 Brew, Hull
📅 26th July – 8th August
Opening night viewing from 6:30pm
Come down, enjoy a warm summer evening of brews/beers and helping us support our local artists / community 😎
An Exhibition of Re-Visited & Re-Worked Artworks
By @wilsongraphic
At @brew_hull
Runs 12th – 25th July
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If you’ve been following lately I’ve been back creating and posting on here. This time around using old paintings that I had discarded and could no longer stand to look at that just needed a new lease of life. I’ve been really pleased with the results and am excited to share them in a public space again at the ever glorious @brew_hull
Come check them out for two weeks from 12th July!
An exhibition featuring previously unseen drawings of Victorian Hull by F.S. Smith is opening at the Hull History Centre. The exhibition, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Smith’s death, will run from July 15th to August 28th. The Hull History Centre is located in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Annie Luke Turner is a full-time artist whose work is inspired by landscape. The research widely encompasses the natural and built – landscape; the places and spaces themselves; the spiritual and cultural landscape – the stories and people of those places; the emotional landscape. Annie endeavours to capture how she feels in those spaces, reflecting her own life and the transformational process of making the work.
Time is spent visiting and sketching the chosen place. The work is delved into and abstracted back at the studio. An analysis of mark making and problem solving evolve through the layering of mixed media. Sketch book work and emotional memories are the studies. Selected elements are filtered into the final painting.
Annie’s latest work focuses on an old stone barn at Kendal Fell in Cumbria. It’s easy to walk past and not see the elaborate 16th century windows which have been long since filled in. Looking into the history of this place reveals it was the home of the Briggs family who fought their cousins in the English Civil War. They lost, and the house was taken from them. Now it sits on the hill and is a refuge for the sheep in the winter months.
Hull Print Collective is a local community group with members who are from Hull, the East Riding, and North Lincolnshire.
An evolving group of printmakers employing a very personal approach, covering a wide range of subject matter.
The group explores a wide variety of printmaking techniques including etching, aquatint, lino, collagraph, monotype, and screen – printing.
Wednesday – Saturday 10.30am – 4pm
Be one of the FIRST to experience our brand-new habitat, ‘The Wreck‘, opening SUMMER 2025!
Between 19th July- 1st September 2025, join our Crew as we take a deeper dive into one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, tropical coral reefs, and discover the animals who live there!
Get to know all about our fascinating NEW species through unmissable daily presentations at 12pm & 2pm, uncovering exclusive details on The Wreck and the inspiration behind its unique design.
Take part in our shark-themed sensory activity stations and complete each one for the chance to WIN a summer prize bundle.
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The exhibition entitled “Points of View” will feature impressionistic landscapes in acrylics, oils, and pastels, which are often seen from unusual viewpoints, including some aerial perspectives. The exhibition will comprise mainly recent work by Phil Hargreaves, reflecting his ongoing move towards abstraction based on the natural world and our everyday life.
About the artist
Phil has been painting for nigh on 60 years and has won awards at the Ferens Open in Hull and at the Derby Arts Festival. In 2021 he was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and this year reached the final of the SAA Artist of the Year competition. He is Chairman of Hornsea Art Society and a member of East Riding Artists. His paintings are in private collections from Japan to the USA.
Visiting the Gallery
The Stables Community Gallery is open daily from 10am to 5pm, and entry is free. Everyone is welcome to explore the exhibition and enjoy the creative work on display in this accessible community space.
Isobel Hill is an artist based in the East Riding of Yorkshire and much of her work is inspired by this rural landscape. The artist works across media, applying her distinctive, illustrative style to drawing, painting, ceramics and animation.
Hill uses poetry and drawing to generate ideas, taking note of and mystifying mundane experiences to find wonder in the everyday. Phenomena that can be easy to ignore – a face within the flesh of a banana, a silhouette reflected in a window, the shadow of a tree looming over a neighbouring house – become extraordinary when given due attention. The artist documents these occurrences in her sketchbook and manipulates them digitally before mapping them onto canvases, where they take on an illustrative and painterly quality.
In this exhibition Hill returns to a number of personally significant motifs: a local folly, neighbouring houses, Flamborough Lighthouse, cutlery, agricultural tools and her late West Highland White Terriers. She layers this imagery within the paintings, shadows from the past and present knitted together to hint at the transient nature of time. The thrown ceramic lamps and hand-painted shades transform the gallery into a space that feels cosy and safe, mirroring the privacy of a bedroom. The artist emphasises the importance of these domestic comforts by elevating the lamps on custom plinths at the centre of the gallery.
The work encourages us to welcome a slower pace of life and to take pleasure in living in the moment. There is, however, an eerie and isolating undertone to the imagery. Hill likens this to the feeling of despair, as it slowly creeps into everyday existence, reminding us that life is a complex balance of good and bad experiences.
Launch 4 July 2025 | 6-8 PM (FREE)
We are four local artists who are members of Hornsea Art Society and meet weekly in Hornsea as part of the Spectrum art group. Whilst there we can support each other to develop our individual painting styles and also challenge each other to try new techniques and mediums.
Our inspiration comes from the beautiful area in which we all live giving us a wealth of material to paint from landscapes and seascapes to flowers and animals.
We hope our very diverse painting styles will create an intriguing and reflective exhibition to inspire your imagination.
Pauline Birdi
I enjoy painting in watercolours, sometimes painting landscapes others times in painting a design concept I have thought out myself. I take my time with the details to ensure my finished picture is of a high quality. I am also becoming very interested in creating collage pictures that become semi abstract using a variety of materials including making my own collage paper to give my pictures a unique and personal finish.
About the Artists:
Aileen Marozzi
At the moment, I am painting in acrylics creating landscapes and seascapes from scenes of the beautiful local area where I live but sometimes I enjoy using pastels to give a different effect to the picture I am working on. Painting flowers in intricate detail is also something that appeals to me and keeps my creativity flowing. My new venture with this in mind is dabbling with strips of material to create a picture by sewing them with decorative thread to a canvas before they are mounted and framed.
Ann Roberts
I have created in several media types but currently I am working mostly in acrylics. My style could be described as semi abstract. I like to experiment with a range of colours not always realistic. I take my inspiration from the coast where I live and spend holidays and also from the countryside around me . My style is evolving and developing into one which represents my feelings about the land and seascapes which I see and enjoy.
Valerie Reeves
I have been enjoying painting with oils for decades but more recently have found that using Roofing slates make an excellent support for my work. They are then sealed and protected by three coats of yacht varnish. You can hang them indoors, on a Veranda, or outside where they can brighten up dark corners or fences in your garden.
Visiting the Gallery:
The Stables Community Gallery is open daily from 10am to 5pm, and entry is free. Everyone is welcome to explore the exhibition and enjoy the creative work on display in this accessible community space.
As far back as the 16th Century there has been a market located at Hull’s marina, but it was throughout the 19th and 20th centuries that Humber Street rose to prominence as the third largest market in the UK importing fruit from all over the world.
Join us at Humber Street Gallery this summer as we explore this rich history in Bananarchy!, an interactive exhibition created by artist Pippa Hale. Taking place across two floors, audiences of all ages are invited to un-peel the history of Hull’s historic Fruit Market in an exhibition which prioritises sociality and play.
Bananarchy! will transform the gallery into a costumery reimagining colorful characters from the fruit trade. A nod to the Banana Ripening Stores once housed on the 2nd floor of Humber Street Gallery in the second half of the 20th century, the exhibition encourages you to connect with this evocative element of local history, through imagination and creativity
Pippa Hale is a contemporary artist based in Leeds. Her practice centres around social history, geography and play. Pippa has previously been commissioned by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, York Railway Museum, Leeds City Council and more.
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