In Living Colour Season

Highlighting untold stories and celebrating creativity

Our October to January season features three exhibitions and a vibrant events programme celebrating untold stories and spotlighting creativity from leading People of Colour in art, music and fashion. Exhibitions featuring artists Nahem Shoa, Desmond Haughton and Deanio X challenge exclusion from the art world and untold stories from history, making the invisible visible whilst Hull’s Black Heritage Collective have developed an exhibition celebrating the transformative power of Black musical traditions.

This programme has been co-produced with the artists and local people of colour.

Exhibitions

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Echoes of Our Heritage

4 October -  26 January 

Wilberforce House Museum

Echoes of Our Heritage is a captivating exhibition that explores the rich history of Black music. As part of "The Sound of Our Skin" festival, this exhibition celebrates the vibrant and transformative power of Black musical traditions.

Free, drop-in.

A portrait of a man.

Deanio X - To Heal A Butterfly

28 September 2024 - 31 March 2025

Wilberforce House Museum

Leading artist Deanio X has been commissioned to produce a series of thought-provoking artworks for temporary display at Wilberforce House Museum.  

Free drop-in

A portrait of a man

Seen and Unseen

18 October 2024 - 26 January 2025

Ferens Art Gallery

​Seen and Unseen is a contemporary figurative art exhibition that explores the themes of race, identity, gender and diversity, nature and climate change, through the works of outstanding racially marginalised artists. The exhibition aims to promote artists that haven’t yet been fully recognised for their achievements, and questions who has ‘not been allowed in’ to the artworld.

Free drop-in

Events

A black and white photograph of a woman speaking at an event.

Reflections on Being a part of a Black Activist Photography movement in the 1980's & 1990's

Thursday 9 January, 2pm-3pm, Ferens Art Gallery, Free, drop-in

Join Hull based artist Glynis A. Neslen to find out about her artistic practise.

Glynis focuses on producing portraitures and positive images of Black women in her photographs, some which have recently been published in an Anthology: Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain. Edited by Joy Gregory

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Fashion through the Lens of Art

Saturday 25 January, 2pm-4pm, Ferens Art Gallery, Free, booking essential

Fashion designer Seguntuyi Mapeganoluwa Onakoya of the House of Tuyi, launches a fashion collection inspired by the Seen and Unseen exhibition.