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Hull (and nearby) is full of such great artists, I find knowing these lovely people really useful links, it feels great to be part of this community. If you’ve made it this far you should check these people and places out, in no particular order:

  • Bobby Beasley is a GREAT photographer who I share a studio with, he’s proper because you can catch his postcards at The Photographers Gallery
  • Jay Moy does lots of ace things with technology and sound
  • Esther Cawley is a marvellous figurative drawer & painter, dedicated to technique
  • Annie Luke Turner has a well rooted abstract practice and Johnny Marr owns one of hers….
  • Paul Collinson‘s paintings are an intellectual essay combined with phenomenal skill
  • Geoff Keen was the painting fellow at my universtity. His a colour field abstraction, the freedom of mark, colour and his scale is hard to beat
  • Anthony Housman is a master at gestural abstraction, its not easy when you know how
  • Dom Heffer‘s practice is playful and deeply insightful reflection on what it is to paint and what is a painting
  • Susan Beaulah can paint, its really that simple, her plein air work and commitment to it has little competition in Hull. She was on telly too
  • Ian Hinley‘s work with the figure is intellectual, technical and a great hand, so balances tension between painterly freedom and control.
  • Alex Kalogerakis has the touch of an old master, and I regularly think of his work as timeless, out of place somehow, yet they are of Hull now. A really phenomenal painter and drawer
  • Yol performs like you are watching rage without any of it directed at you
  • The Aimless Archive reminds me that we are all archives and need them
  • Alex Stubbs for his love of words which led to my discovery of pace, through his recommendation of Man with a Blue Scarf
  • Louisa Chase‘s practice is marvellous, and I’m so glad there is someone doing this
  • Sarah Pennington tirelessly runs Hull Artist Research Initiative which is a fantastic resource for Hull artists interested in researching their own practice
  • Lindy Norton is quite simply a master at her craft, beautiful and full of pathos
  • Andi Dakin has a print and sculpture practice, and has tireless energy for his own curiosity and wonder
  • Anna Bean is in every sense Bluebeany, taking her world and making it open to all
  • Barney who is always representing
  • Feral Art School was set up to create high quality, independent and affordable art education
  • Fashion collective Atelier 8 have a studio in the same premises as me, and they are a lovely bunch, co-run by fashion fine-artist Zac Girdlestone
  • Brew which is a smashing coffee shop who show work
  • Galleries: Humber Street Gallery, Artlink, Eleven Gallery which is one of the few commercial galleries run by the supreme ceramicist Adele Howitt
  • Zivarna Murphy‘s ceramics do that lovely thing where they want to be held, and that special thing which helps us connect to something.
  • Special mention to Brynmoor Jones Gallery at the university for its wonderful 1890-1940 art collection of painting and sculpture.
  • Bael, Chrissy Collinson, Darren Rogers, Jon Keen, Chris Tansey, Martin Lewsley, the list goes on….

And these for constant inspiration: