ARTISTS
2022
Launched in Hull across both Humber Street Gallery and Ferens Art Gallery, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022 exhibition features 47 of the UK’s most exciting artists emerging from art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes.
2021
Leo Fitzmaurice (b. 1963) has perfected the art of the double take. His sculptures, which are currently on view at Hull’s Humber Street Gallery, encourage audiences to look again.
2020
The term ‘community’ conjures images of disparate individuals joined by shared interests, experiences, cultures, or religion.
2019
Kalu, who has autism, channelled her compulsive behaviour into creativity – and now her bristling, energetic work is wowing Hull
2018
Raised as a socialist and a druid and initiated into political activism at a young age, Jamie Reid blames his parents for his rebellious streak; which at the age of 71, shows no sign of abating.
The Sex Pistols artist continues to unpick the normal order with a cacophony of ideologies, kaleidoscopic paintings and British history in his 50-year retrospective
Richie Culver is a multidisciplinary artist based in London but originally from Hull, a post-industrial city in the Northern part of England.
Technological innovation is the signifier of our times. The question remains: how do we make sense of a digital world? As perceptions of reality change, artists respond through conceptual pieces that both use and critique new media to address wider social and political issues.
2017
The exhibition and related events for COUM Transmissions at the Humber Street Gallery, Hull, proposes an unprecedented exploration of the private thinking and public actions of the collective, who first started to meet and experiment in the city in the late 1960s.
In the summer of 1977 at the height of the punk explosion, I organised an opening disco for a performance by a group called Throbbing Gristle in Winch