Moore Orme
Ends May 2025
Paintings by Rob Moore, the late Jim Orme, and ceramics by Barry Stedman.
Beautiful Places & Pots 2025
A plethora of colour, shape, texture and imagination. The collection plunges the viewer into the shape of landscape, the quality remembered in the minds’ eye, familiar yet new.
Open 21st March 2025 – Closes 4th May 2025
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The late Jim Orme was a contemporary painter who mixed his paint to achieve rich surfaces in both his abstract and more representational work. In this show, it is impossible to represent the full range of his oeuvre where often recognisable motifs were apparent in the textured surfaces (aeroplanes, moths, birds) etc. Jim was has a fascination with flight, birds and insects. Any living being that presented these gifts were obsessively studied and catalogued in formed into his paintings. Much of his work was abstract and Jim had a strong interest in Minimalism a trope that is noticeable in the paintings.
Rob Moore has worked as a painter and printmaker for most of his life. Originally from Leicester, Rob is now living in North Yorkshire.
“That he does not direct the viewer, but merely raises an arm and a finger and suggests a direction.’’
Like Jim, Rob enjoys the craft of painting and is obsessed by applying intricate paint marks in much of his abstract work. The paintings often have a feel for the landscapes he loves across the north. There are many works that include suggestions of places affected by rising sea levels due to climate change, a threat to the East Yorkshire and Humber coastlines. Rob incorporates simplified shapes that suggest for example a submerged piece of land, a boat wreck exposed by a strong high tide. Rob is happy however for the viewer just to enjoy the colour, marks and shapes that he creates in the paintings. He continues to curate exhibitions and organises the music gigs at The Old Parcels Office in Scarborough.
We have a new collection of ceramics by Barry Stedman to accompany the richness of Moore Orme exhibition. Barry’s intention is to make colourful, dynamic forms that come out of a deep connection to the landscape. Often his ceramic art work is rooted in the directness and urgency of drawing outside; responding to the weather, drama, and life of the landscape. Starting on the wheel or constructed with slabs, the red earthenware vessels are marked and altered, scored and handled, before being painted with layers of coloured slips and oxides, washes of vivid colour enhanced with a bright rich clear glaze.
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Studio Eleven is a gallery, studio and workshop space. We offer specialist studio space for ceramicists and a shared workshop for printmaking. 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 a large print press.
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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