Exhibition: HUFree Gallery - We Believe in Love Not Luck

• 3 March - 23 May 2026
• HUFree: Gallery
• Western Library, 254 Boulevard, HU3 3ED

For over a year from 2024, artist Kate Genever and photographer Tony Ward from Top Color print shop on Hessle Road, Hull, worked with customers and community members in a deep collaboration that produced 17 studio portraits, 17 collected histories and 17 large scale ceramic platters. 

Everyone involved was deeply connected to Hessle Road. Their lives were shaped by being there… forged in the long but changing dockland history.  Some come from families who, for generations, have lived and worked there. Others have arrived more recently. 

The project began as an exploration into the maritime tattoos seen on many of the area's older men but  developed a wider lens, and a process of collecting the visible and invisible marks people carry.  Marks that represent identity, struggle, love and history. 

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The , located on the top floor of , opened in May 2025. It showcases and celebrates photography, film-making and print inspired artwork that arises from working class life in HU3 and Hull. Here we will take a closer look, together, at the people and lives, past and present, that are often hidden or paid scant attention. We will explore too, the national and international links that reflect our beautifully diverse HU3 community, and shape who we are.

For more information about HuFree Gallery visit and @eofushu3 on Facebook or Instagram.

• Monday 1.00 – 6.00
• Tuesday 9.30 -1.30
• Thursday 1.00 – 6.00
• Saturday 10.00 -1.00

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