In April Hull Maritime launches a new series of pop-up exhibitions with A-Fishing for the Whale by artist Caroline Hack. The exhibition features three textile works, which are on display from 12-26 April 2023 in Princes Quay Shopping Centre, and a newly commissioned work-in-progress piece inspired by Hull’s folk music heritage, on display at a film screening and meet-the-artist event at Ferens Art Gallery on Wednesday 19 April 2023.
In this interview, Hull Maritime’s Charlotte Tomlinson sits downs with Caroline Hack to talk about commissioning the exhibition, learn more about the works on display, and explore Hack’s connection to Hull’s maritime past and present.

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Open Bridges made history when for the first and only time all the bridges over the river Hull were raised, swung or closed simultaneously splitting the city in two at 20:17 hours on the autumn equinox, 22nd September 2017.

Thank you to Agent Starling – Quentin Budworth and Lou Duffy Howard – for this article about their new album European Howl. Quentin tells us about the varied musical influences plucked from different cultures and times, and how this album kicks against the isolationism of Brexit, aswell as the process of working and collaborating during lockdown. In this article you will also find soundtrack and video links as well as the beautiful album cover by Anna Kirk Smith.

Touch is a video installation. Janine Antoni created a makeshift tightrope between two trees on the beach in front of her childhood home in the Bahamas. In the video the trees which support the rope at either end are out of sight so the rope spans the screen and is set horizontally parallel to it.

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Lou collaborated with artists and musicians to produce an exciting collection of text, audio, film and visual work. We are so grateful to Lou to be able to feature some of the work here.

The Critical Fish are excited to see the second Shorelines mural, painted on the glass frontage (like a giant goldfish bowl) of an empty unit inside Hull Paragon station. This piece brings the outside in, the sea to the land and warns of a submerged future if we don’t attend to climate crisis now.

We are so pleased to include photographs and film by Estabrak. These images are research studies taken during the production of Sea; the remains between, which was exhibited at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, November 2019 to February 2020, in collaboration with Invisible Dust

A man and a woman speak from the edge of the water at either side of the estuary and a diver plunges beneath the surface where nuclear waste has been dumped or placed.

We were so excited to see the first mural of The Shorelines Project appear on the side of Hull College and to read about how the project, which combines art, community, and climate activism, will unfold.

In this article James shares some of his artworks made in places along the Humber estuary and the East Yorkshire coast. These pieces combine art, ecology and play and sit in the space between high and low tide.

Rob and Chloe sketch out distant and recent histories, and the give and take of natural and manmade forces. We learn about connections and impacts, and the interelatedness of things – not least our collective experience of climate crisis.

In this article Matt Fratson unravels some of the personal, historical and geological stories that intersect on the crumbling, sliding Holderness coast, and explores connections between memory loss and coastal erosion.

A twenty-year commitment to capture the fragile, everyday life of the Malabar Coast.

The Critical Fish are pleased to host an image by Helen Goodwin (from 4th August) as part of her Impermanent Edge digital tour.

In this visual essay David Gange explores his approach to interpreting land from water. His writing and photography take the perspective of small boats on the ocean. David is author of The Frayed Atlantic Edge (Harper Collins), which involved spending a year kayaking from Shetland to the Channel.

The response comprises three artists books and two final prints; Ghostly Remnants and Silent Witness (these prints are featured in the Above Below gallery). The books explore the selected area, they contain drawings, paintings, monoprints and found objects.

Nick divides his time between North Lincolnshire and the North York Moors. He has a love of storytelling and folk tales, and his short stories have been published in “Strange Whitby Tales”, “Here Comes Everyone”, “Gone in a Flash”, and “Writing from North Lincolnshire” – in which he won the Fathom Prize in December 2018.

In this visual essay Susan Leeson presents her prints and poems in which she explores water through print making techniques.

We are very excited to feature Tom Robinson’s sketchbooks made in response to our Above, Below theme. In these books Tom lays bare his thinking and working process and the rich network of references he draws on.