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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°W |
| Website | https://www.absolutelycultured.co.uk/humberstreetgallery/ |
Humber Street Gallery is an art gallery in the English city of Kingston upon Hull, and an Absolutely Cultured project. It hosts a year-round exhibitions programme as well as events, performances and activities. 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] Humber Street Gallery has since housed exhibitions from artists such as Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022, Hetain Patel, Oliver Ressler and more.
The gallery's café includes the local "Dead Bod" graffiti,[2] relocated from its original site on a corrugated iron shed on Riverside Wharf.[3] 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.[4]
Humber Street Gallery is located in a former fruit and vegetable warehouse in Hull's Fruit Market district.[5]
References
- ^ "Hull Gets New Contemporary Gallery for City of Culture 2017". artnet News. 3 February 2017. 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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