We are really excited to announce that Liminal Creative have become the latest Artist in Residence at The Ferens art gallery in Hull. Led by Hull based artist and Liminal’s Creative Producer, Louise Cole, the residency will see the collective present previous work, Sirens, in Gallery 2 as well as producing a brand new piece of work for Gallery 11. As part of the residency, Louise will be using Gallery 11 as a studio and will open the doors to the public, every Wednesday between 11am and 1pm. During this time, visitors may come and chat about the work and watch some of the making process. As well as presenting these pieces of work, the Liminal team will also be delivering schools workshops and a public talk about their work.
The new work, called Expansion of Existence, is created as a direct response to another project that has been running at The Ferens. Young people who make up the Future Ferens alongside members of The Warren, have curated and presented a new exhibition called Identity, as part of a project called Rediscovering Ferens. The project looks at representation within the collection, finding what is perhaps missing or needs greater focus. As well as selecting artworks from the gallery stores to be shown in gallery 4, the young people have created their own responses to the theme of identity and the result is really impressive and very thought provoking. There is clearly a lot of emergent talent within this group and we are excited to spend more time with them to see what they might choose to do next.
Expansion of Existence takes the notion of identity and explores personal and genealogical connections to the past; to the things that make us who we are. This new, interactive, audio visual installation will be on display from April 13th.
