The Mosaic Path

Curated by guest artist, Linda Ingham, this yearly exhibition is inspired by the ecological term for the combination of environments – ‘mosaic’ – inherent from location to location. A Mosaic Path is an investigation of landscape and place through the eyes of four artists considering such subjects today.

 

Close observation of storeys and stories of places conserved, disturbed, reimagined, string across Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire. The artists research and form a visual metaphorical path. The selected artists’ works are gathered within this exhibition to offer us an exploration of the land in this current climate crisis. A land that speaks of the present, past, and future.

 

Adele Howitt, Studio Eleven Director: “Rising from the rubble or waste aggregates in ‘brown field’ sites, the mosaic path is the proliferation of plants that are thriving in adverse conditions. This low fertile environment provides the potential for a diverse mosaic of planting which can be very beneficial for wildlife. There is enormous scope to promote this approach at all scales to create climate change for people and wildlife.”

 

The Artists

Linda Ingham

Linda Ingham’s process-led practice grows out of her interest in landscape and place. Life as a gardener, allotment-holder, and a love of walking complement her work, and she regularly works with the Wildlife Trusts and RSPB to document portions of reserves along the east coast.

Botanical beauty and the folk histories of plants we often overlook on a daily basis was where this began some years ago for her, but PLACE is always important and though plants perhaps star within Ingham’s compositions, location is always a major consideration in each series or composition.

Linda Ingham has her studio at The Ropewalk in North Lincolnshire and achieved her MA Fine Art from Lincoln University in 2007. Exhibiting nationally and internationally her works are represented in collections in Britain, China and the USA. She is a member of the curated group, Contemporary British Painting.

Richard Hatfield

The colours, scale and nature of the landscape provide a constant source for Richard’s image making. The paintings are the amalgamation of the remembered, the fleetingly observed and the emblematic motifs imprinted on the retina.  The paintings are constructed using layer upon layer of thin colour that produce an intensity of pigment or create ambiguous veils of paint that vaguely describe the subject. Often painted over a coarse textured ground, layers of paint are added and subsequently removed generating a rich patination of surface. Richard is one of the Directors of the Ropewalk in Barton.

Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas is a contemporary British painter based in Wakefield, England. She graduated from Falmouth School of Art (BA Fine Art) and completed a year of postgraduate study with Turps Art School.  Helen works with drawing and painting, on-site and in the studio, to consider humanity’s relationships with plants.  Solo exhibitions: Habitat, Mura Ma, Stockport, 2024. Helen’s Arts Council England Funded project ‘Dandelions and Double Yellows’ culminated in a solo exhibition at Wakefield Cathedral as part of the Festival of The Earth in 2021.  Group exhibitions include Planting Ideas, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Hampshire, 2024; Precious Little, Mura Ma, Stockport, 2023; Babble, Ilkeston Contemporary, Derbyshire, 2023; Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2022 and 20-21 Visual Arts, Scunthorpe 2023; Conversations with Nature, The Art House, Wakefield, 2022 and Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016.

Steve Gresham

Steve Gresham graduated with a degree in Fine Art from the University of Nottingham in 2014. His mixed media work focuses on two landscapes of particular interest to him: the Lincolnshire coast and the Humber estuary and, as seen in these pieces, Assynt in the north west of Scotland. As well as exhibiting work in The Tarpey Gallery at Castle Donington, various Summer Exhibitions at the Djanogly Gallery at the University of Nottingham in which he was shortlisted for the Cedric Ford Art Prize, the Ropewalk Gallery at Barton on Humber and the Open Exhibition at The Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, he has had solo exhibitions at The Old Lock Up Gallery in Cromford, Bromley House Subscription Library in Nottingham, and The Old Coach House in Louth.

Katie Braida

Katie makes sculptural vessels and forms using a variety of hand building techniques.  Working with soft clay, coils and slabs, she allows the material to move and suggest direction for development.  Creating forms leads to the exploration of the surface.  Katie creates texture and pattern based on the rhythms and patterns within the environment.  Colour is applied to the subtlety textured surfaces, generating a depth of colour but retaining a softness and tactile quality that invites interaction.

Live Like Legends Exhibition

Live Like Legends, an exhibition celebrating Hull’s vibrant street art and graffiti scene. Spanning two floors, the show explores the joys and complexities of this unique form of public expression, which has had a striking presence in Hull since the early 1980s.

Live Like Legends showcases newly commissioned artworks from several generations of artists who have significantly shaped this cultural movement over the past forty years. The exhibition includes an immersive, multimedia installation of curated mementos, photography, and previously unseen archive footage. It explores the crossover between the street art scene and other aspects of street and youth culture, alongside society more broadly.

The Deep Presents: Big Bug Bonanza!

On 29th June- 30th June, join us for Big Bug Bonanza, an event celebrating all things insect to mark the end of Royal Entomological Society’s Insect Week!

Take a look as we explore some of the world’s biggest and smallest creepy-crawlies in our daily presentations, running at 11am, 1pm and 3pm.

Investigate closer into the lifecycle of insects and just how important they are to our ecosystems through interactive and hands-on activities.

Big Bug Bonanza is included in your standard admission price; no additional booking is required. Visitors are highly recommended to pre-book their visit in advance.

Pushing the Edge Exhibition

Exhibition of abstract paintings from Annie Luke Turner, Christopher Tansey, Rob Hall and sculpture by Sam Larter on Pier street off Humber Street Hull.

Innovative, expressive and exciting work which pushes the boundaries of painting and sculpture.

Join the launch on Friday 5th July from 5pm!

How Queer!

Eclectic Gallery Presents… is an annually curated gallery space. This year our theme is inclusivity and diversity through the visual arts, celebrating the work of local LGBTQ+ artists and their allies. The space provided will also be a “quiet space” for anyone who needs a break away from the hustle and bustle during Pride.

We are now inviting artist submissions for our Eclectic Gallery Presents event – ‘How Queer’ to be held at Maister House from the 24th-27th July 2024.

Streetlife Museum

Celebrate Windrush Day

Remember Windrush and learn about Caribbean culture and the Caribbean contribution to Britain with members of Hull’s Caribbean community

In association with the Wilberforce Institute, families are invited join members of Hull’s Caribbean community to remember Windrush. Learn about Caribbean culture and the Caribbean contribution to Britain through map making, crafts and storytelling.

Drop-in.

Cold Junction

 

Luis Bustamante, a Chilean photographer, arrived in Hull with his wife Carmen in December 1974 as political refugees. Their son, Sebastian Bustamante, is a British-Chilean artist, curator, and researcher.

On 11 September 1973, General Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende. The Pinochet regime’s campaign of terror against Allende’s supporters included kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, torture, and executions. In response, international solidarity efforts, including the Humberside branch of the Chile Solidarity Campaign, helped relocate 30 Chilean exiles to Hull, including Luis and Carmen.

While studying at the University of Hull, Luis captured the essence of his new surroundings through photography. “The camera had two purposes: it was a connection with a new life and a shield that enabled me to look at it,” he explained. His images offer a vivid portrayal of everyday life in mid-1970s Hull, a time of significant social and political change.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Chilean refugees arriving in Hull, “Cold Junction” merges Luis’s historical photographs with Sebastian’s ongoing project “El Otoño.” This project, incorporating objects, photographs, and video, delves into Sebastian’s identity as a second-generation exile, honouring those who disappeared, those who stayed, those who left, and those striving for a better future in Chile.

Launch: Friday 14th June 6pm – 8pm

Exhibition Tour: Byland’s Super Saga

Byland’s Super Saga is the first institutional solo show by Hull born artist Jack Pell. The exhibition draws upon the magic of everyday life across history, and is born out of Pell’s personal experience growing up in Hull as a working-class person and all the vibrant complexities that come with that.

Hull is often described as a city shaped by water. The artworks in Byland’s Super Saga take the regions waterways – the drains, the canals and the estuary – as metaphors to explore its key themes. It weaves together the recognisable, everyday aspects of a city with that which is bizarre and magical.

The exhibition is an attempt to highlight and examine the social history, folklore, industrial heritage and natural landscape of Hull and the East Riding in an imaginative way; as well as celebrate modern and unlikely aspects of popular culture such as fantasy and science-fiction, fairground art, car customisation, scarecrows and model building.

From reimagined replicas of some of Hull’s cast iron bridges including Wilmington and Sculcoates, to puppets named Wyke and Grim, who take on the characterised personas of Hull and Grimsby respectively, Byland’s Super Saga presents a creative interpretation of Hull unseen before.

Join us for a guided tour of this exciting exhibition!

 

 

Humber Street Gallery

Living Coast Exhibition

When the land has gone, but a place lives on through its people, we can still make maps – with their memories.

Living Coast is an installation of photography, fine art, spoken word, text, sound, music and video. It has been created through a six-month collaboration between creative artists and environmental scientists from the University of Hull, and current or former members of the local communities in Easington, Kilnsea and Spurn.

This multi-arts installation documents a social and environmental history of place, as well as the human cultures of the South Holderness coastline. It contains verbatim interviews, newly written music, field recordings, photography, physical theatre videography, new poetic writing, and the display of historical artefacts.

Will you heed the call of the coast? Where a storied past meets an uncertain future in a delicate dance of remembrance and possibility?

Come and hear both land and sea as they whisper their tales through the echoes of memory.

In a place where the pulse of the present beats in harmony with the rhythms of the past.

Hull Grammar School (600 years) Exhibition

Five Hull Old Grammarians have created an exhibition outlining the six centuries history of the school and its contribution to the city.

Viewable at Wilberforce House from 10th June until 22nd September, and at Hull History Centre in 2025.

Senior Tigers Memorabilia & Heritage Day

Come and view a treasure trove of Hull City AFC memorabilia and bring your unique and historical items to add to one of the largest collections of Hull City memorabilia ever assembled.

Light refreshments will be available in the Raich Carter Suite.

Model Railway Show

Hull Miniature Railway Society present a fascinating array of working layouts, along with demonstrations, ‘have a go’ layouts for children and trade stands.

Still Life – Summer Exhibition 2024

The new exhibition offers a new way of seeing the Still – Life. Esther Cawley, Painter, and Lesley Doe, Ceramicist, have collaborated to offer us this concept both within the real state, and captured on the canvass. They have created new works inspired by the ephemerality this genre, rendered in porcelain, alongside a series of painted compositions of Lesley’s new collection of transformed objects.

A mutual admiration of their creative practices led to new works:

“Lesley’s palette has been a source of inspiration, and enabled play in paint with muted complimentary colours, attempting a gentle and harmonious outcome.” Says Esther.

“I am thrilled that Esther took up my offer to use my work as subjects for her painting. I have long admired her paintings and it has been wonderful to collaborate with her for this exhibition, particularly to have the opportunity to see my pieces through her eyes.” Says Lesley.

Seen & Unseen Exhibition

Seen and Unseen is a contemporary figurative art exhibition that explores the themes of race, identity, gender and diversity, nature and climate change, through the works of outstanding artists.

The exhibition Seen and Unseen, aims to promote artists that haven’t yet been fully recognised for their achievements, and questions who has ‘not been allowed in’ to the artworld.

This exhibition showcases the work of two pioneering artists, Desmond Haughton and Nahem Shoa, who for over 35 years have made identity and the human condition their themes. They have been shining a light on a part of British society, which the establishment and art world did not see. The surface of their work belies how politically loaded the message behind these works. Through their work Shoa and Haughton have made the invisible visible in all its beauty and complexity.

The exhibition will include works from the Ferens’ collection, bringing out stories through new interpretations by juxtaposing them with loans of work by important women and artists of colour. This exhibition aims to celebrate the best of British contemporary figurative art in its rich variety of styles, but unifying all these artists is a desire to explore new possibilities in art for the 21st century. This exhibition will tell new stories about our place in society today, help give a voice to the next generation, and make them feel relevant to British culture.

Lionesses of Hull Exhibition

Explore the rich history of women’s football in Hull through the lives of Carol Thomas and Flo Bilton.

Lionesses of Hull is an exhibition which will explore the life in football of Carol Thomas, England defender from 1974 – 1985 and captain from 1976 – 1985. It will also touch on the life and work of Flo Bilton, also from Hull, co-founder of the Womens Football League who set up the Reckitt & Colman team that Carol played for early in her career.

As part of this project we are commissioning a film featuring interviews with different generations of women’s footballers in the local area about how they got into it, why they play and their experiences.