Arts
Posts and events in arts from across Hull.
Upcoming
Hull Freedom Festival 2026
Hull's biggest annual arts festival returns for its free bank holiday weekend spectacular. Three days of street theatre, live music, circus, visual art and large-scale outdoor performances across the city centre and waterfront. One of the UK's largest free arts festivals.
Open Studios: Fruit Market Artists
Thirty artists working in the Fruit Market's studio buildings open their doors for a free weekend of visits. See printmakers, painters, ceramicists and textile artists at work in the warehouse spaces above Humber Street. No booking required — just turn up, walk around and talk to the people making the work.
Ferens Art Gallery: Summer Exhibition Opening
The Ferens opens its major summer exhibition with a free public evening. The gallery's programme of loan exhibitions and new commissions continues to draw visitors from across the region. Free entry, drinks provided, talks from the curators.
Stories
10 Minutes with Local Mural Artist Spray-K
The artist behind Hull's most photographed wall on growing up in Bransholme, painting fast and never looking back.
The Fruit Market: How Humber Street Became Hull's Creative Quarter
Ten years ago it was a wholesale market. Today it's home to galleries, restaurants, studios and one of the most talked-about independent coffee scenes in the north.
Hull City of Culture 2017: What the Legacy Looks Like Now
Nine years on from the year that changed how the city saw itself, we look at what actually stuck.