Events and Exhibitions
Venues
Past Events and Exhibitions
Performing Histories / Histories Re-Imagined offers an insight into photographic approaches that critically engage with ‘the archive’ to re-address the past and bring to the fore histories that have been overlooked. It presents the work of Alba Zari, Amin Yousefi, Eleonora Agostini, Emi O’Connell, Jermaine Francis, Laura Chen, Odette England, and Tarrah Krajnak. The group show is on at Impressions Gallery 8 June - 31 August 2024.
We Are Here, Because You Were There: Afghan Interpreters in the UK is a collaborative project by photographer Andy Barnham and researcher Sara de Jong, which documents the experiences of Afghan interpreters who were employed by the British Army in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2021, and resettled to the UK in 2021. This exhibition is on at Impressions Gallery until 4 May.
Join photographer and British Army veteran Andy Barnham, researcher Sara de Jong, and two Afghan interpreters to learn more about the project We Are Here, Because You Were There. Discover how photography became a tool for activism, enabling the experiences and stories of Afghan interpreters to be told, on 27 April at Impressions Gallery.
Join Afghan refugee Nahid Hamidi for an inspirational talk, as she shares her experience as a leader within the humanitarian sector, establishing an NGO in Afghanistan, and setting up The Afghan Kitchen in the UK, a pop-up restaurant that supports other refugees who have relocated to Yorkshire on 18 April at Impressions Gallery.
Ann Hutchinson is a photographer based in Hull who often travels by train to Venice where she became interested in the centuries-old Venetian tradition of water and oar and its place in a sustainable future for Venice, discover her exhibition at the University of Hull in February to April 2024.
This exhibition contains portraits and stories from some of those with tales to tell of the fishing industry in Hull during the 1970’s.
Travel through the exhibition A Wounded Landscape alongside photographer Marc Wilson to find out more about what inspired his work.
Impressions Gallery's annual Photobook Fair returns with a spotlight on environmentally conscious approaches to photobook publishing, on 28 October 2023.
Morrissey came to prominence in the early 2000s among a generation of female photographers working with staged photography, often putting themselves in the picture. Throughout her career, the artist has combined performance, photography, and film to play real and fictional characters. Using herself, and in collaboration with others, Morrissey’s practice explores historic and contemporary ideas about women, family and the body. The exhibition brings back to Impressions Gallery selections from Morrissey’s seminal photographic series Seven Years (2001-2004) and Front, (2005-2007) both commissioned by Impressions and developed over long periods of time.
An exhibition which looks at the decline of the fishing industry in Hull during the 1970’s. A group exhibition by The People collaborative Nigel Walker, Julie Shakesby, Carmina Ripolles, Rob Bentley and David Drasdo.