Hull Open Studios

Hull Open Studios 2026 🎨 A huge thank you to the city’s studios and artists who opened their doors on Saturday 2 May to share their work with the public. And thank you to everyone who came along to visit and support local artists!

Independent Feral Artists’ studios at Bond 31 High Street is open this Saturday as part of @hullopenstudios_ 🖼️ 🎨 🍷 looking forward to seeing you 👀

One more sleep until Hull Open Studios 2026! Don’t forget to plan your day and explore the participants using the map on our website 🗺️ Participating studios and artists: @groundgallery @atelier_8.hull @independentferalartists Hull School of Art and Design @makerspacehull @hull_dance studioelevenhumberstreet @adele.howitt @squarepeghull @threequestions_333 @m0nk_333 @lizdeesart @esthercawley @angelabellartist.hull Rachel Ellis-Jones @mat_taylor @annieluketurnerartist @hollycryan @hari_artsresearch @the.anna.log @amy_aprecious @john_dearing_printmaker @josephjcox @wearehinterland @stewartbaxter @artlinkhull @zivarnamurphyceramics @matthew_james_clay @miss_i_dru_this @matt_hopper_art @miscprintco @layla__jab @container.wks @juicehull @chanel.le @charlotteliznolan_art @mommanaturehull Due to unforeseen circumstances, The Old Ice Cream Factory won’t be opening as part of Hull Open Studios 2026. Find the map at humberstreetgallery.co.uk/events/hull-open-studios or visit the link in our bio.

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @mommanaturehull About Helen Chance: My name is Helen Chance and I am a second year Masters student in Creative Practice at Hull School of Art and Design. My studio practice is centred around exploration of the conscious/subconscious, trauma and memory. As a proud working class ARTIST, I make use of old pigments and paints, adapting to broad ranges of mediums, I transform found, handmade and salvaged usable surfaces to create autobiographical testimonies of my lifelong creative journey. Please come and join us at the MA studios for a Mosaics workshop and refreshments, plenty of seating and air conditioning for a rest spot on your travels! Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm Hull School of Art and Design, Queen’s Gardens, Hull, HU1 3DG If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene.

EofUs supports @hullopenstudios_ and lucky for us we got a sneak peak at two artists @moi.mariya and @miss_i_dru_this work and their spaces today. What a treat to meet and see behind the scenes while also exploring city buildings. We reckon there’s plenty more worth a visit this weekend if you can. Thanks Mariia and Dionne for the tours !

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @artlinkhull Artlink Hull | 87 Gallery is a community arts charity dedicated to bringing the creative arts to everyone, especially people who haven’t had the chance to get involved before. We’re based at our beautiful 87 Gallery in the heart of HU5 in Hull: a hyper local visual art gallery with a national outlook, rooted in the communities we serve, developing world-class talent. Artlink Hull | 87 Gallery will also be hosting the following during the day: 10am - 12pm | Start your morning with us and join us for complimentary hot drinks and pastries. 10am - 11am | Try your hand at screen printing with Fraser Briggs of Misc. Print Co. and learn more about our 87 Editions, whilst exploring Fraser’s studio, located at the back of our building. 11am - 12pm | Visit our new Community Gallery exhibition by artists associated with Streams, our monthly creative and critical workshops. 12pm - 1pm | Help us celebrate the first day of our new exhibition ‘Daylight Comes Through the Cracks’ by joining artist Isaac Yeboah and our curator for an informal tour. Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm Artlink Hull | 87 Gallery, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene.

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @zivarnamurphyceramics Zivarna is a research-based conceptual ceramic artist, having trained in Medical Anthropology and holding a PhD in Human Sciences she brings emergent themes from her research around the social aspects of body and organ donation, namely loss, grief, transformation, and emotion, into her ceramic vessels. On visits to her local East Yorkshire coastline, she observes the erosion and loss of this landscape body as a metaphor for human loss. Zivarna hand-forms her tactile vessels from stoneware and porcelain, layered with eroded wild boulder clay and impressed shells, rocks and fossils, all gathered from this coastline, imbuing each piece with a strong sense of place and connection. The forms draw upon structures she sees in her local landscape such as fossilised shell bodies, ebbing cliffs and sea formed rocks. She is interested in firing as a transformative process and the becoming of the vessel body. Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm Juice Studios, 61A Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TU If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene. More participant announcements coming soon!

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @matthew_james_clay Matthew is a multidisciplinary designer with experience across fashion, homeware, and print. Alongside his role as a Creative Manager, he has developed a deep love for hands-on making, with a current focus on ceramics. Inspired by his time living in Scandinavia, Matthew creates pieces that encourage connection and foster a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. He will be showcasing the ceramics collection he has been developing over the past few years from his home studio, alongside works created in classes at the Freedom Centre. Visitors will also have the opportunity to explore his prints and gain insight into his design process. Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm 4 Commodore Croft, Hull, HU1 2EL If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene. More participant announcements coming soon!

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @miss_i_dru_this About Dionne Ruffy’s work: I am interested in the relationship between 2D / 3D and what happens in the transformation from one form to another. I do this by working with architectural space, the experience I have within a space. I work with everyday materials and enjoy seeing what happens if that material is repeated to fill up a space. The outcomes take the form of installations that are site specific. I also work with light and projection and how this interacts to make a new language that asks the viewer to navigate a new understanding of the space. Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm Feral Art School Building, 22 Alfred Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2BS If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene. More participant announcements coming soon!

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @matt_hopper_art About Matt Hopper’s work: I conduct rituals and meditations on the council estate where I live. I aim to transcend the humdrum reality by mythologising the everyday. I draw, paint and write songs inspired by suburbia. Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm Hull School of Art and Design, Queen’s Gardens, Hull, HU1 3DG If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene. More participant announcements coming soon!

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @miscprintco Misc Print Co was founded in 2018 by Artist/Designer, Fraser Briggs (FSR). Offering Design and Screen Printing solutions (garment and flat stock), Briggs, has worked with clients including acclaimed visual and musical artists (national and global), record labels, HBO/BBC, community projects and local business’. Alongside branding and art direction. Briggs also helps Artists develop their practice and offers on/offsite workshops for people to try screen printing themselves. Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene. More participant announcements coming soon!

📣PARTICIPANT ANNOUNCEMENT @layla__jab Layla Jabbari is a printmaker based in Hull. Layla teaches at Feral Art College and has run workshops at various venues including Sunny Bank Mills and Lincolnshire Museums. Layla is currently on a residency with Art Lab Print Studio based at the University of Lancashire. She was shortlisted for the Scaf Emerging Artist Award 2025, Highly commended at Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and shortlisted for the Flourish Awards for Excellence in Printmaking 2024 and 2025 Saturday 2 May, 11am-4pm Juice Studios, 61A Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TU If you would like more information or have any questions, please contact [email protected] Hull Open Studios is a celebration of creativity and community, offering artists the chance to open their doors, share their practice and connect directly with audiences. It’s an opportunity to showcase work, meet new people, sell pieces, and be part of a citywide celebration of Hull’s vibrant creative scene. More participant announcements coming soon!