Humber Street Gallery is an art gallery in the English city of Kingston upon Hull, and an Absolutely Cultured project. It hosts a year-round exhibitions programme as well as events, performances and activities. The three-storey gallery was opened in February 2017 as part of that year's Hull UK City of Culture event, with exhibitions by the COUM Transmissions collective and Sarah Lucas.[1] Humber Street Gallery has since housed exhibitions from artists such as Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022, Hetain Patel, Oliver Ressler and more.

Humber Street Gallery
Humber Street Gallery is located in East Riding of Yorkshire
Humber Street Gallery
Location within the East Riding of Yorkshire
Established2017 (2017)
LocationFruit Market, Hull
Coordinates53°44′20″N 0°20′05″W / 53.7390°N 0.3347°W / 53.7390; -0.3347
Websitehttps://www.absolutelycultured.co.uk/humberstreetgallery/
The Dead Bod graffiti in its original location on Riverside Wharf

The gallery's café includes the local "Dead Bod" graffiti,[2] relocated from its original site on a corrugated iron shed on Riverside Wharf.[3] The artwork is a human-sized depiction of a dead bird, supposedly painted by Captain Len ‘Pongo’ Rood and Chief Engineer Gordon Mason in the 1960s, and was a prominent feature on the city's docks.[4]

Humber Street Gallery is located in a former fruit and vegetable warehouse in Hull's Fruit Market district.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Hull Gets New Contemporary Gallery for City of Culture 2017". artnet News. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Dead Bod". Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  3. ^ Robinson, Hannah (30 January 2017). "Dead Bod to go on public view in new Humber Street Gallery". Hull Daily Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  4. ^ Wood, Julian (7 May 2017). "Exploring Hull and its high water". Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  5. ^ Robinson, Hannah (3 February 2017). "This amazing rooftop bar is coming to Hull". Hull Dail Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
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