Advantages: Free Admission, Good collection Disadvantages: none
Ferens art Gallery is the main art gallery in Hull, (Kingston-upon-Hull), it has the most resources, the biggest collection, and the best funding. You will see as part of the permanent collection, works by such luminaries as Frans Hals, Antonio Canaletto, Frederick Leighton, Percy Whyndam Lewis, Stanley Spencer ( I like), Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Bridget Riley, Helen Chadwick, and others, not bad for a provincial ... ...own judgements. I think the Ferens has done well to break down this stuffy atmosphere over recent years, and has tried to bring in and involve the local community, with projects, and club type activities. There is a children’s gallery for example. The children’s gallery was launched at the Ferens in 2000 by Michael Underwood, BBC children’s tv presenter ( I’ve never heard of him) and was created with a grant from the Heritage lottery fund. Its aimed ...
jouk04 01.04.2004 (03.04.2004)
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Advantages: free, quite interesting Disadvantages: not well known
...all ages.
The impressive Ferens Art Gallery was opened in 1927 and extended in 1991,.It won the Museum of the Year Award in 1993 for the Best Museum of Fine and Applied Art. The gallery is smack bang in the center of Hull so can easily be found if you have been shopping. At either side of the gallery are entrances to the marine side Princes Quay so you should be able to find it easily. It claims to have one of the largest collections of regional ... ...ingenious! A visit to the Ferens wouldn’t be complete without taking the time out to view these superb oil paintings.
Below I have listed a couple of exhibitions which are current or upcoming.
W. Barns-Graham has an exhibition until the 27th June 2004. W. Barns-Graham has been a key figure since the 40’s, associated with the group of artists of St Ives. She continues to produce landcape paintings and prints as well of scenes of the natural world. ...
kerryzach 17.06.2004
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