Welcome to The Long Gallery, at the Park Street, School of Art & Design, Hull.

The Long Gallery is a dedicated exhibition space, housed within the historic Park Street Art School building, that now supports an ongoing program of exhibitions, including Fine Art, Photography and Design.

If you would like further details or any information regarding forth coming exhibitions, please contact us at:

The Long Gallery, School of Art & Design, Park Street, Hull HU2 8RR.

Tel: (01482) 598754 or e-mail: cso.parkstreet@hull-college.ac.uk

or simply enter your e-mail address in the box on the right and click the Sign Me Up to keep up to date with our programme of events.

The Park Street, School of Art and Design is just a three minute walk from the bus and railway station at the rear of the St Stephen’s Square shopping and leisure development.

 

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Currently on Show at the Long Gallery is a large body of work by Derek English.

This exhibition of Paintings and Prints can be seen from Friday 5th of November.

(click the images above to see larger versions)

Our First Year

If not actually under this new name, the space that The Long Gallery occupies has been a venue for exhibitions of Art & Design from the Art School’s students and staff for a number of years; the recent re-branding of the exhibition space came about in order to encourage contributions from outside collaborators and partners, as well as being a nod to the shape of the space itself.

During 2009/2010, its first year functioning under this new name, we saw an exhibition by outside artist Chloe Twells, whose work, dealing with size, scale and proportion manifests as large scale pencil drawings on paper. Important local and regional buildings, landmarks and sites were selected for study including Thornton Abbey Gatehouse, Lincoln Cathedral and St.Peter’s Church, Barton-Upon-Humber. Monochromatic, what matters here is the monumental nature of these special landmarks and so the works themselves.

Final year photography, student Adam Freeman presented ‘A Place To Die’, an exhibition of images taken on location at both Auschwitz (the largest of the WWII German concentration camps, in southern Poland; now a museum), and Hull.

Adam said of his project, “I had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz recently, and took inspiration from Simon Norfolk’s rather harrowing book, For Most Of It I Have No Words’.

Adam shot in black and white intentionally in order to portray the sombre atmosphere; feeling that although it is more than sixty-five years since the liberation of the camp, that it is still a relevant subject matter as a piece of history that modern generations should not forget. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Student-visits-Auschwitz-and-lets.5848764.jp

Next we saw the wonderful prints and paintings of Andi Dakin, an artist and lecturer who works across a range of media and disciplines. In this exhibition we saw some of his more recent work inspired by “Simple Polyps and Zygotes… Invertebrates are champions of great beauty,” said Andi in his artists statement, “…with their refined forms and surface qualities of texture and colour, their dance, their secretions, their simple and practical features.

You can see a more complete entry on Andi’s exhibition in a separate post, here.

Other of our own Park Street students then featured in the Outside In 2 exhibition, featuring various competition, commission, or client led responses by FE students including extensive ceramics work produced for Castle Hill Hospital’s Oncology and Rheumatology departments; National Fashion competition winners, National packaging competition winners, Design Against Fur poster competition winners amongst others.

While earlier, last Autumn, Park Street staff contributed to an exhibition of work that encompassed their wide range of skills and interests including Photography; Typography, Fine Art Painting, Illustration, and Printmaking.

… and most recently the exhibition space played host to the excellent retrospective by fine artist David H. Smith in an exhibition entitled Chapters – The Odyssey of an Artist (see separate post).