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19 Jul 2017
Documentary photographer Lee Price explores what it means to be gay in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A powerful new photography exhibition is set to launch at Humber Street Gallery in Hull on Thursday 27 July as part of Hull 2017’s LGBT 50 programme. The House of Kings and Queens is the brainchild of international documentary photographer Lee Price and explores life as a member of the LGBT+ community in Hull’s sister city of Freetown, […]
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2 Jun 2017
Get involved in a brand new piece of performance action at Humber Street Gallery. Lucy + Jorge Orta, the artists behind Humber Street Gallery’s Raft of the Medusa exhibition, are on the lookout for eight performers to take part in a filmed performance-action piece. Consisting of simple, repetitive movements, the performance will be directed by the artists and will be recorded and edited into a […]
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13 Apr 2017
Are you an artist or performer with something to share? WORM festival want to hear from you… This June, the wunderful world of WORM will take over Humber Street Gallery. Dutch avant-gardist innovators from WORM (Rotterdam) will take up residence on Humber Street from 23–26 June, for a riotous festival of punk, DADA and Fluxus. Their residency will include events, workshops and performances – and that’s […]
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5 Apr 2017
Raft of the Medusa, a striking, multi-sensory installation from artists Lucy + Jorge Orta will today open to the public in Humber Street Gallery, symbolising the perilous journeys of thousands of refugees navigating the oceans in search of a safe haven. The piece takes historical references from Théodore Géricault’s Le Radeau de la Méduse (1818-1819, Musée du Louvre, Paris), which depicts a makeshift raft constructed […]
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