Ten FREE things to see this October in Hull
Sixteen Thousand
2 Oct - 5 Nov 2017 Fruit Market Building a powerful work of art, the city’s youngest residents create an impressive installation featuring 16,000 handmade clay bricks. Clay is a material at the heart of the city of Hull. The city was built on clay and its buildings...
28th September 2017
High Enterprise
28 Sep - 3 Nov 2017 East Riding Leisure Haltemprice What happens when artist Patrick Coyle takes over one of the UK’s busiest Leisure Centres at Haltemprice? Inspired by the joined up nature of this multi-functional building, Coyle interweaves three of it’s distinct environments through writing, performances and...
28th September 2017
Hull, Portrait of a city
13 Oct - 31 Dec 2017 Humber Street Gallery Hull UK City of Culture have partnered with international photography co-operative Magnum photos to create this bespoke exhibition, commissioning Martin Parr and Olivia Arthur to explore the culture and creativity of Hull. The exhibition highlights the qualities that have made the...
28th September 2017
Turner And The Whale
7 Oct 2017 - 7 Jan 2018 An exhibition that unites Hull’s own whaling collections with works from JMW Turner, Turner & The Whale offers unique insight into Hull’s finest artists and the artistic mind of one of the art world’s most revered landscape painters. On loan from the Tate’s...
20th September 2017
Marine Art – Ernst Harckel
1 Sep - 31 Oct 2017 Haeckel was a German Biologist, Naturalist and Artist who discovered and named thousands of new species. In 1899 he began to publish a series of extraordinary images that changed the way we viewed the relationship between Art and Science. 100...
20th September 2017
British Road Signs
2 - 29 Oct 2017 In 1965 designs for the British Road Sign appeared on our streets and have occupied an important role in our lives for the last 50 years. Designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert they standardised the road network, produced two new...
20th September 2017
Hear In Hull
1 - 31 Oct 2017 Everyone should feel that their voice will be heard, no matter what challenges they face. One percent of the adult population stammers. Through art, Hear In Hull, a project by Artlink Centre for Community Arts in partnership with Humber NHS Foundation Trust, explores their...
20th September 2017
Inprint 2017
16 Sep - 29 Oct 2017 Eleven Gallery presents InPrint Biennial. The second Hull International Printmaking Biennale is back, taking place across three galleries in Hull and the wider region, celebrating print in all its forms. Curated by Rob Moore with help from colleagues from Studio Eleven and...
20th September 2017