Winner Breaks First, Luke Beech. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery © Jules Lister

Winner Breaks First, Luke Beech. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery © Jules Lister

Winner Breaks First, Luke Beech. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery © Jules Lister

Winner Breaks First, Luke Beech

For his debut solo show at Humber Street Gallery, Luke Beech presented Winner Breaks First,

The new body of work reshaped the gallery space into a snooker hall pocket realm, found by an artist from another world who explores the game for the first time. Beech presented a “sort of silly but quite revealing ballad of hurt and queerness and madness and joy” which drew on his own experiences and hopes to make sense of them set against a casual game and a swift half.

The show comprised installation, videos and a sound piece. In the gallery you could become a part of the art and take part in a game yourself, amongst  the other works on show. At times, Beech’s work can be dark and uneasy or open and raw. Sometimes, a little bit like life, it can be funny and absurd too.

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Winner Breaks First: A queer foraging tour

Sunday 4 June 2023
11am-1pm
Meet at Humber Street Gallery
Booking required

Join artist Luke Beech and experienced forager Isaac Marsh for an outdoor exploration with Hull’s Queer Foraging Club. Meet, make friends and share knowledge about the uses of our local flora and funga and investigate how this feeds into our current Gallery 2 exhibition, Winner breaks first.

Winner Breaks First: In Conversation with Luke Beech, Dom Heffer and Simon-Mary Vincent

Thursday 11 May 2023
6-7:30pm
Humber Street Gallery
Booking required

Artist Luke Beech is joined by fellow artist Dom Heffer and composer Simon-Mary Vincent, to discuss emergent themes from his current exhibition Winner breaks first.

An Evening with Critical Fish

Wednesday 10 May 2023
6:30-9pm
Humber Street Gallery
Booking required

Join us for evening at Humber Street Gallery hosted by Critical Fish to reflect and unpick themes present in our current exhibition programme. The evening with have a focus on looking/experiencing, exploring/sharing, questions, conversation, and writing.

Winner Breaks First: A queer foraging tour

Sunday 7 May 2023
11am-1pm
Meet at Humber Street Gallery
Booking required

Join artist Luke Beech and experienced forager Isaac Marsh for an outdoor exploration with Hull’s Queer Foraging Club. Meet, make friends and share knowledge about the uses of our local flora and funga and investigate how this feeds into our current Gallery 2 exhibition, Winner breaks first.

Thursday Lates: BAIZE MOI

Thursday 20 April 2023
7-9pm
Humber Street Gallery
Booking required

A response to Winner Breaks First, BAIZE MOI is a dance solo choreographed by Gareth Chambers and performed by Joe Grey Adams that explores the sexual personae of masculine working class archetypes prominent in pop culture.

Gareth Chambers (aka Popperface) transgresses traditional choreographic making methodologies to create performances based heavily in working class experience, queer masculinity and libertarianism. He was a Jerwood Fellow 2022 and is currently a Horizon 2023 artist. Gareth’s work has been showcased in Australia, Berlin, London and Vienna and he currently resides in his hometown of Hull.

Exhibition Launch Party

Thursday 13 April 2023
6-9pm
Humber Street Gallery
No booking required

Join us to celebrate the joint launch of two new exhibitions at Humber Street Gallery, Winner Breaks First by Luke Beech and Baa’s House by Hetain Patel. This event is a chance to meet the artists, visit the exhibitions and to share a drink or two.

 

Artist bio

Luke Beech is a an artist whose recent works include a number of Durational Performances, Happenings and characteristically low-tech Moving Image pieces, undertaken to help him make sense of his own Mental Health. Drawing on his own experience he relates to wider social issues in creating subtle and sensitive performative statements that provide a visceral engagement for audiences. He is a Founder member and Director of The Feral Art School cooperative in Hull.

12 April – 2 July 2023

Space 2, Humber Street Gallery

Free

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