Hidden Layers
The Autumn Exhibition
Painter, Annie Luke Turner is our featured artist.
New Ceramics by Adele Howitt.
3rd September 2025 – 12th October 2025.
Annie Luke Turner is a full-time artist whose work is inspired by landscape. The research widely encompasses the natural and built – landscape; the places and spaces themselves; the spiritual and cultural landscape – the stories and people of those places; the emotional landscape. Annie endeavours to capture how she feels in those spaces, reflecting her own life and the transformational process of making the work.
Time is spent visiting and sketching the chosen place. The work is delved into and abstracted back at the studio. An analysis of mark making and problem solving evolve through the layering of mixed media. Sketch book work and emotional memories are the studies. Selected elements are filtered into the final painting.
Annie’s latest work focuses on an old stone barn at Kendal Fell in Cumbria. It’s easy to walk past and not see the elaborate 16th century windows which have been long since filled in. Looking into the history of this place reveals it was the home of the Briggs family who fought their cousins in the English Civil War. They lost, and the house was taken from them. Now it sits on the hill and is a refuge for the sheep in the winter months.
About
Studio Eleven is a gallery, studio and workshop space. We offer specialist studio space for ceramicists and a shared workshop for membership. Events include artists talks, performances, workshops, hire of the studio space and a rolling programme of exhibitions featuring contemporary ceramics and painting. The gallery at number 12 comprises of a main space for wall-based and plinth mounted work, and six display cases. The workshop space is situated on the first floor which also consists of a large, shared studio space with potters wheels and equipment.
Studio Eleven was a Hull City of Culture 2017 partner. A strategic partner in developing the bid and the wider promotion of Hull as a Culture City with interventions exhibited in London and beyond by Adele Howitt. During 2017 we delivered a contemporary exhibition programme with events, workshops, and special performances by Hull Time Based Arts.
Since it was established in 2009, Studio Eleven has continually pioneered the cause of Hull’s cultural quarter in the Fruit Market area, particularly Humber Street. The gallery and workshop now resides at no; 12 on Humber Street since March 2017. Eleven is in a prime visitor location, close to Hull Marina, The Deep, Hull Museums and the newly refurbished Ferens Art Gallery. Eleven was the first creative business on Humber Street have recently been joined by the new Humber Street Gallery.
Studio Eleven workshop and gallery was established in 2009 by artists. Founder & Owner, Adele Howitt continues to direct the enterprise, enlisting the support of Clare Holdstock, and a voluntary team of artists and potters who use the studio space .
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