Humber Street Gallery
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Established | 2017 |
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Location | Fruit Market, Hull |
Coordinates | 53°44′20″N 0°20′05″W / 53.7390°N 0.3347°WCoordinates: 53°44′20″N 0°20′05″W / 53.7390°N 0.3347°W |
Website | Humber Street Gallery |
The Humber Street Gallery is an art gallery in the English city of Kingston upon Hull. The three-storey gallery was opened in February 2017 as part of that year's Hull UK City of Culture event, with exhibitions by the COUM Transmissions collective and Sarah Lucas.[1] Curator David Sinclair describes the gallery as being "the new home of the sort of art that Hull inspires".[2]
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The gallery's cafe includes the local "Dead Bod" graffiti,[3] relocated from its original site on a corrugated iron shed on Riverside Wharf.[4] The artwork is a human-sized depiction of a dead bird, supposedly painted by Captain Len ‘Pongo’ Rood and Chief Engineer Gordon Mason in the 1960s, and was a prominent feature on the city's docks.[5]
The Humber Street Gallery is located in a former fruit and vegetable warehouse in Hull's Fruit Market district.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Hull Gets New Contemporary Gallery for City of Culture 2017". artnet News. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ "Feature: Will culture fix Hull?". Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ "Dead Bod". Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ Robinson, Hannah (30 January 2017). "Dead Bod to go on public view in new Humber Street Gallery". Hull Daily Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ Wood, Julian (7 May 2017). "Exploring Hull and its high water". Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ Robinson, Hannah (3 February 2017). "This amazing rooftop bar is coming to Hull". Hull Dail Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
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- Art museums and galleries in the East Riding of Yorkshire
- Art galleries established in 2017
- 2017 establishments in England
- United Kingdom art museum and gallery stubs