Living Coast
People, Land and Sea in Yorkshire's South Holderness
Living Coast is an exhibition of art, music, film, poetry and spoken word about the people, land and sea of Yorkshire’s South Holderness region.
Spurn Point is the southern-most tip of the East Yorkshire coastline whose 700-year history of human habitation came to an end in 2023. This exhibition presents artworks created during a project that took place between January and May 2024, which explored the unique entanglement of the transient geography and human occupancy of the ever-shifting South Holderness coast.
Through interviews with current and past residents (including farmers, artists, historians and ecologists), and working alongside the Spurn Bird Observatory, researchers from the University of Hull have created a series of artistic responses that explore the rapid geogogical, social and environmental transformations of the unique landscape of South Holderness.
Please visit Eco-Art South Holderness for more information.
Open daily 10am-5pm, with late opening to 7pm on Tuesdays.
What do Hospices in England look like? Photographs from the Hospice Architecture in England Study
Brynmor Jones Library (near the Café)
15 November 2024 – 31 January 2025
Curated by Doctoral Researcher Lucia Crowther
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull
The photographs in this exhibition come from hospices across the country, from brand-new purpose built sites, to converted homes and manor houses, and even a hospice based in a medieval court. Hospices can be misunderstood and even feared healthcare settings, so our aim with this exhibition is to raise awareness about what hospices really look like in the hope of reducing the stigma which is often attached to these spaces.
We would love to know what you think about these photographs so if you visit, please leave us a comment on one of the cards provided.
See https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/hospicedesign/t-gamxqpn for our upcoming hospice design event on 14 January 2025.
Funded by Wellcome.
Immanuel Kant and Hull
Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull
Ground floor, near the Art Gallery.
2024 was the tercentenary of the birth of Immanuel Kant, the most important German philosopher, and this small exhibition commemorates his somewhat surprising close link with Hull. One of the prize possessions of the East Prussian State Museum at Luneburg, Germany is a drinking glass recording a gathering at Kant’s home in the Prussian port-city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) on 30 August 1763. The glass is engraved with the names of those attending. In addition to Kant there were six others of whom four where from Hull: two Königsberg-based merchants, Joseph Green and Robert Motherby, and two sea captains, Green’s brother-in-law Charles Staniforth and John Chappell, whose daughter later married the explorer Matthew Flinders. The Hull men were all engaged in the lucrative export trade of linen yarn from the Baltic for the West Riding and Lancashire textile industry and linseed that was used in Hull’s oilseed crushing mills and emerging paint industry
Kant described Joseph Green as his ‘best friend’ and wrote that he had not written down a single sentence in his best-known work, the Critique of Pure Reason, unless he had presented it to Green and had his unprejudiced opinion. Robert Motherby also became a close friend of Kant. The firm of Green and Motherby managed Kant’s finances and the philosopher had a great influence on the education of Motherby’s children.
The exhibition illustrates the links between Kant and the Hull-born merchants, highlighting the buildings that still stand in the city associated with the Green and Staniforth families, whose ships were the first to enter the new dock (now Queen’s Garden) in 1778.
Exhibition devised by David Neave for the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire (website: gsey.org.uk) in conjunction with the Berlin-based Friends of Kant and Königsberg with financial support from the University of Hull Maritime History Trust.