Studio Eleven

Description

Studio Eleven Gallery is situated in the heart of Hull’s exciting Cultural Quarter on Humber Street.

Artists Rob Moore & Adele Howitt set up the space as an art studio with workshops fronted by a small gallery. Eleven specialise in medium sized paintings, printmaking, ceramic sculpture and crafts by professional artists. The gallery shows selected emerging artists whose work is innovative and of high quality.

Over the past three years Eleven has played host to some of the most talent artists of the region and continues to display them on a regular basis. Our mixed Christmas shows exhibit the very best in collectable art, printmaking, ceramic art and designer-jewellery from nationally recognised makers. The gallery regularly changes it main exhibition from mixed shows to featured artist including Tom Wood, Russell Lumb, Neil Moore, Kane Cunningham, Patti Lean, Brian Clarke, Janine Baldwin, Hanne Westergaard, Jake Attree, Bren Head, Eric Moss, Ilona Sulikova, international ceramicist Sandy Brown and most recently Stephen Newton plus many more.

Our regular figurative shows have allowed us to exhibit artists work covering ceramics, printmaking, painting and photography including the work of several established and emerging new artists. Studio Eleven Gallery has mounted exploring ideas, approaches and responses to the human condition presenting us a rare opportunity to experience images about the figure that allow highly personal, unusual and creative insights into the human experience - how we look and feel. Included In this was ’Severance’ the deeply personal collaboration between Midlands based artist Neil Moore and his model/artist Anneka Reay and her struggle with anorexia.

As part of Humber Street, Studio Eleven takes part in our yearly Freedom Festival, Hull’s annual celebration of the Arts, a lasting legacy of the Wilberforce 2007 campaign which celebrated the pioneering work of Hull-born William Wilberforce MP and the abolition of slavery. One of our most memorable exhibitions at Eleven was the collaboration between Adele Howitt and Fiona Weir and their Living Flower Cars displayed across the festival. ‘Seeds for the Desert’ was an exhibition of photography, ceramics, and a temporary installation that draws inspiration from those concepts, encourages awareness of biodiversity and celebrates freedom.

Studio Eleven’s governing aim is to develop a wider creative network for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, offer specialist equipment to printmakers and ceramicists as well as competitive priced studio spaces and help to establish a creative and cultural focus in Hull for visitors from home and oversea. Overall contributing to the emerging Cultural Quarter of the city.?

Our regular workshops offer amateurs and professional artists alike the chance to explore different techniques and processes in printmaking and ceramics including Carborundum, Sugar Lift, Aquatint Etching, Lino Printing, Collograph, Drypoint, Open Screen Printing, Ceramic Plate Design, Figurative Sculpture. Print & Ceramic Members are also entitled to regular access to our fully-fitted facilities. The workshop space has also allowed us to hold workshops in Life Drawing, Cyanotype, Large Format Photography, Hand Weaving & Tapestry, Batik & Silk Painting giving us the opportunity to offer a complete range of classes.

The gallery presently comprises two main spaces for wall based, plinth mounted and illuminated display case work. Eleven fronts Humber Street close to Hull Marina and in the heart of the Fruitmarket cultural quarter. It is a short walk from the spectacular Deep, Ferens Art Gallery and the old High Street museum area and close to the Humber estuary.