Free drop-in artist talk with Hull artist Emma Hardaker, who has work in the Ferens Open Exhibition 2026.
Emma Hardaker is talking about her work at Ferens Art Gallery on Thursday 3 December, at 2pm. It's a short session, about half an hour, and it's part of the Ferens Open Exhibition, which runs from Friday 16 October 2026 to Sunday 10 January 2027.
Hardaker is a Hull artist and designer who spent the last decade building a reputation for bold, visually arresting transformations in the public realm. Since having a child in 2024, she's moved away from that project-based work to develop a studio painting practice, drawing on long-standing interests in architecture, colour and form. Collage is her starting point; from there she experiments with colour, texture and shape to build unique, harmonious compositions. Her piece Mothers Intuition is on display in the exhibition.
The talk sits within the Open Exhibition itself, which brings together more than 300 works across painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textiles and film by emerging and established artists, many from Hull and the surrounding area. The selection was made by a panel of judges including Arts Director Anna Turzynski, Disability Access Consultant Daniel Watts and Hull artist Sam Larter.
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It's a free, drop-in session, so there's no need to book ahead. If you're around the city on the afternoon of Thursday 3 December, you can just turn up at Ferens Art Gallery for 2pm.
