Exhibition of work by emerging young artists from Hull and the surrounding area alongside the gallery's permanent collections.
The Young Open Exhibition opened at Ferens Art Gallery on Sunday 1 November, and it's staying put for a good while — it runs until 10 January 2027, so there's plenty of time to fit it in over the winter months.
It's an open exhibition, which means it's not a curated show in the usual sense. Instead, it's a celebration of the creative talent of young people from Hull and the surrounding area. The gallery puts out the call, and the work comes in from across the city and the region, rather than being picked from a small circle of established names. That's the whole point of it: it's about giving emerging artists a place to hang their work alongside the city's permanent collections, right there in the same building.
Seeing new work from local young people displayed alongside the Ferens' permanent collection is a good way to see where the city's art is coming from. It puts the fresh stuff in direct conversation with the older, established pieces the gallery holds, and it gives artists who are just starting out a proper platform in the heart of the city.
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Because it runs until 10 January, you've got the whole of November and December to get there, and it'll still be going well into the New Year. If you're in Hull, it's an easy one to drop into whenever you're near the gallery.
