28 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 It’s literature, but not as we know it… Out of this Word brings top writers, poets, playwrights, artists and musicians from the UK to the East Riding to celebrate the power of language. There’ll be no shortage of opinion as the newly...
A public exhibition of player worn Hull City kits and memorabilia will tell the story of the club’s visual identity and its integral place in Hull culture. A collaboration between amateur collectors, the Hull City Supporters’ Trust (HCST) and the Streetlife Museum, this project will explore...
House of Fraser Hull has teamed up with three local artists to help celebrate UK City of Culture 2017 in their landmark city centre store. Multi-award winning figurative painter Geoff Hewitt, mixed media and mural artist Angela Bell, and award-winning palette knife artist Heather Burton, have been...
Pamela Davies has developed a series of clay sculptures, which reflect the way our lives can be dominated by matters like money, possessions and status whilst concerning ourselves less with the impact we are making on the natural world and the lives of other peoples. The...
This selection of diverse, provocative contemporary work by UK and international artists and makers invites us to rethink and reclaim play, the universal language that transcends all barriers. In association with the Crafts Council, States Of Play explores situations – of interaction and experience, development and production –...
In exhibition of life size sculptures by Icelandic artist Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir will be placed around the campus stimulating thought and refection about the historic connection between Iceland and Hull. Cairns are a common sight in the Icelandic landscape and were used as landmarks for people to...
The first Holiday Camp appeared in 1894 on the Isle of Man; however it was in the 1920s that Billy Butlin launched the concept of the holiday camp in a gigantic way. The concept grew rapidly after the Second World War and dominated the British holiday...
Freedom is very much anchored to the heartbeat of the city, but with a big global voice on issues that affect us all, both directly and otherwise. There’s a real undercurrent of revolution and resistance to what’s happening in the world at the moment, which...
