A trail in shop and business windows In Hull city centre featuring original artwork by students from Hull College has launched as part of the city’s festive events, activities and celebrations.
Winter Windows is the culmination of an initiative run by HullBID in partnership with the college, where Level 3 Illustration students participated in a live work experience project, with HullBID acting as a commissioning client. Over 50 students created original artwork inspired by Winter and twelve were chosen by a selection panel earlier this month, to feature in the trail.
Winter Windows, which has been kindly sponsored by Allenby Commercial, C4Di, Hull City Council, John E Wright, Lush, Prospect Centre, Savills’ Queens House, St Stephen’s and Wykeland is now in place for visitors to explore and enjoy until early January. The Deep, Hepworth’s Arcade, C4Di, Prospect Centre, St Stephen’s, Monocle and Hull College are just some of the locations the trail will take in.
Hull College, Illustration Lecturer Amy Walker said “It’s been brilliant working with HullBID on this project, which provided the students with a live brief and the opportunity to have their work exhibited in the city centre to be enjoyed by people living, visiting and working in Hull. We have some amazing creative talent at the college and it’s fantastic to be able to showcase this on such a scale.”
Her colleague Laura Johnson added “The students all worked incredibly hard and we are so proud of each and every single one of them.”
Thanks to the very generous support of Allenby Commercial, all of the participating student’s artwork can also be viewed in a pop-up exhibition at the recently opened Monocle on Ferensway. Held in the building’s event space on the ground floor the students work will be on show alongside the work of local artists including Charlie Broomfield and Rory Wynn.
Events, Marketing and Social Media Manager Victoria Yates said “It was so difficult to choose only twelve of the student’s work for inclusion in the trail as the standard was so high. Being able to display the work of all of these emerging new talents with this pop-up exhibition is therefore the perfect culmination to the project and creates yet another great reason for people to visit the city centre. We are incredibly grateful to Allenby Commercial for providing such an amazing setting to exhibit the student’s creativity.”
Allenby Commercial, who formed part of the selection panel alongside a representative from C4Di, Hull College and HullBID were one of the first businesses to sponsor the trail and become involved.
Georgia Allenby, Director at Allenby Commercial said “We’re delighted to support this fantastic venture focused on highlighting the creative talent we have in the city. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed being part of the selection panel for the trail and are very excited to host the pop-up exhibition in our dedicated events space at Monocle, which is quickly becoming a home to lots of creative industries and businesses. We look forward to welcoming the public to explore the student’s art, take in work by local artists and makers and enjoy a drink in our Daze Coffee House!”
The Winter Windows trail and pop-up exhibition is on until Sunday 4 January.
For more information please visit https://hullbidevents.co.uk/upcomingevents/winter-windows/
