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87 Gallery

87 Gallery supports artists to explore, make and show new work.

We are passionate advocates of creative expression and visual culture, and we open our doors for everyone to experience and enjoy this.

04/12/2025

Come and shelter in the warmth of our current exhibition The Nearness of Elsewhere by artist Emma Prempeh this weekend at 87 Gallery.

The exhibition aims to transport us to an environment that feels equally distant and familiar, encapsulating diasporic experience in the UK and beyond. It is inspired by research visits to Hull, where the artist led workshops and attended community gatherings to incorporate the stories of local people and places.

Reflecting on her London upbringing and her African-Caribbean heritage, Prempeh consistently returns to the theme of home. Utilising magic realism, she re-examines diasporic identity through storytelling and myth, commenting on the circularity of time and memory.

📅 4 Oct - 19 Dec 2025
📍 Artlink Hull | 87 Gallery, Princes Avenue HU5 3QP
⏱️ Thursday-Saturday, 10am-4.30pm

09/10/2025

If you have a teen who likes photography, check out these brand new sessions just for 12-16 year olds at 87 Gallery on Princes Ave Hull.
Starting next Tuesday 14th and running up to Christmas, open to book now.

Find full details about the sessions on Mumbler here -
https://hullandeastriding.mumbler.co.uk/photography-explorers-at-artlink-hull/

30/04/2025

Join us for a new series of our critical and creative response workshops with The Critical Fish, beginning by exploring the themes of our current exhibition ‘Special’ by Emily Oetegenn.

Tuesdays 6-8PM�6 May / 20 May / 17 June

Enrol to secure your place now at www.87gallery.co.uk/streams (this must be completed before joining us).

Streams is for anyone over the age of 18, at any point on their creative journey . We welcome and support people with any level of experience and abilities. It is an open space for reflection that aims to provide a supportive framework for developing critical and creative responses to art work.

Our meeting point is 87 Gallery’s dedicated studio — a safe and welcoming space where creative practitioners from all backgrounds or subject-specialisms get an opportunity to share works in progress, respond to exhibitions and events, meet others, and encourage new working relationships.

15/04/2025

Today is ! 🎨

Discover our amazing exhibitions currently on display across the city!

👩‍🎨 In Therapy with North Sea Humber Street Gallery
🖼️ Sirens, Women & The Sea Ferens Art Gallery
📷 Humber Print 2 University of Hull
🔴⚪ Hi Hull, it’s us! Hull Museums, Streetlife Musuem
🎥 Uncovering Modern Slavery Hull Museums, Wilberforce House
🎨 Beautiful Places & Pots Studio Eleven
📽️ Special 87 Gallery
🖌️ Wild Style Fruit Market Hull, Space COMING SOON!
🎖️ VE Day 80th Anniversary Exhibition Hull Minster COMING SOON!

👉 https://loom.ly/OXB-YBg

01/04/2025

Emily Oetegenn | Special

Celebrate with us at the public launch: Friday 11 April, 5-8pm (quiet hour 5-6pm)
Visit the exhibition: 12 April – 21 June 2025. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10am – 4:30pm

Emily Oetegenn () is an artist-writer and director whose multimedia work explores themes of q***r love, disability, sensuality, womanhood and rage, her Aphrodite gaze validating their relationship to one another. The work, which centres around poetry and the spoken word, strives to challenge misrepresentations of disabled communities.

She is also founding director of multimedia platform , which prioritises producing proudly with authentic creativity. Tales and Scales champions, empowers and celebrates neurodivergent, disabled and q***r performance artists and their allies, under the direction of an artist who is proudly all of the above!

This exhibition is part of a longstanding collaboration between Emily Oetegenn and / , which has seen her work included in group exhibitions as part of our Creative Connections programme, and the production of her quarterly Tales and Scales open mic nights.

For her first solo exhibition, Oetegenn has worked with to create a film for her poem ‘Special’, which documents a journey towards self-acceptance. The work adopts a nostalgic, home-video format and is inspired by the artist’s childhood and of living with cerebral palsy (CP). The film follows two lovers through the holidays of Christmas, New Year and Valentine’s Day. These holidays represent times of unity and coming together, which are central to the poem.

Thank you to the performers and artists who have collaborated with Emily on this work:

22/03/2025

The Gallery is Closed Today – Back Open Thursday!

We’re taking a short break today, but don’t worry – we’ll be back open from Thursday!

In the meantime, there’s plenty of art to explore across the city: - Sierens, Women and the Sea  - In Therapy with North Sea at  - Humber Print 2

Plus many more exhibitions and creative spaces to enjoy around Hull.

Go get your art fix – and we’ll see you later in the week!

15/03/2025

TIMES VII brings together the work of 40 artists in response to the theme of SHELTER.

Today’s featured contribution is from Sergey Melnitchenko.

‘The Tattoos of War project is about layers. About collective memory. About reflections. About feelings and emotions. About what will remain with us forever. Everyone has their own, but we all talk about the same thing. About pain. I can take thousands of such photos – with every person, with every child, with every courageous soldier and female soldier of our strong and unruly state. Because everything that is happening now is our common destiny, our history, which today is written with blood every day.’

Read TIMES VII in full online now at 87gallery.co.uk/times featuring a wonderful exploratory text from Guest Editor Jessica El Mal.

14/03/2025

TIMES VII brings together the work of 40 artists in response to the theme of SHELTER.

Today’s featured contribution is from Masha Weisberg.

‘Blood and Milk’

‘This project consists of photos made with my own blood & breastmilk.

I was five months pregnant when the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine had started, and my initial year of bringing a new life was intertwined with the chaos of war. During the early months of motherhood, the boundaries between nurturing life and witnessing destruction began to fade. I would breastfeed my son while scrolling through endless videos of demolished homes and missile strikes, the two experiences overlapping. This led me to consider how, amid death and despair, there can still be room for life and hope.’

Read TIMES VII in full online now at 87gallery.co.uk/times featuring a wonderful exploratory text from Guest Editor Jessica El Mal.

13/03/2025

TIMES VII brings together the work of 40 artists in response to the theme of SHELTER.

Today’s featured contribution is from Paul Mesnager

‘At the intersection of documentary and poetry, my work focuses on social and political dominations.

Iqbal is a photographic and poetic exploration created in collaboration with a Muslim LGBT activist in Kashmir. Through intimate portraits and reflective prose, this project delves into the intersection of
identity, faith, and activism in a region fraught with conflict.’

Read TIMES VII in full online now at 87gallery.co.uk/times featuring a wonderful exploratory text from Guest Editor Jessica El Mal.

12/03/2025

TIMES VII brings together the work of 40 artists in response to the theme of SHELTER.

Today’s featured contribution is from Iryna Kabysch

‘Surreal Hygge’

‘Kyivans continue in common sense between flights, blackouts, and news about dead, wounded friends, and missing people. The occupiers are making terror against every Ukrainian. Winter in a blackout in the midst of war. What is it? The light went out. Darkness. And the heat? Maybe there is still a connection? Do we have enough water supply? Is it for a long time? Is it an emergency, planned outage? It is not clear.

This is our present, multiplied by the unknown. Surreal Hygge. Is there anything permanent in these conditions? We are. We have. And our will. WARNING! An air alert has been announced! Shall we go to shelter? Morally we will. They are playing this deadly roulette with us.’

Read TIMES VII in full online now at 87gallery.co.uk/times featuring a wonderful exploratory text from Guest Editor

11/03/2025

TIMES VII brings together the work of 40 artists in response to the theme of SHELTER.

Today’s featured contribution is from Nadine Storrer: ‘Reflections from Home’

‘‘Reflections from Home’ illustrate a playful interaction within a familiar space. A place where you have spent much of your life, a place where you have grown, where you’ve seen so many people come and go. I also wanted to illustrate that our home, our shelter is far from perfect. It may need fixing up, tidying or both. We often fall into patterns of looking at the ‘glass half-empty’ rather than celebrating the space we have for all its flaws. My aim was to search for different viewpoints
on the familiar, as we often take the place we call home for granted. I wanted to capture as much
detail as possible.’

Read TIMES VII in full online now at 87gallery.co.uk/times featuring a wonderful exploratory text from Guest Editor Jessica El Mal ( )

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10/03/2025

TIMES VII brings together the work of 40 artists in response to the theme of SHELTER.

Today’s featured contribution is from Liz Rymer.

‘I suppose the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the word is the brand – the charity which supports the homeless. Then there are the places where I or others might seek to shelter on a day-to-day basis: a bus shelter, a smoking shelter. I think a little more widely and of seeking shelter: under a tree or pressed against a wall under the eaves of a building when unexpectedly caught out in a shower.

Returning to the charity, Shelter, I think of my own home and how it provides me with shelter from the world outside, or how as I sit writing these words in the library this space provides mw with shelter from my home to have space to write away from the chores and distractions there.
Shelter might be provided in a cove or bay for ship in a storm, or I think of battle scenes in movies where someone shelters from a rain of bullets behind an obstacle.’

Read the full piece and TIMES VII in full online now at 87gallery.co.uk/times featuring a wonderful exploratory text from Guest Editor Jessica El Mal

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