Artist Chris Dobrowolski Brings Hull’s Beaches To The Deep Car Park

Artist Chris Dobrowolski Brings Hull's Beaches To The Deep Car Park,
Artist Chris Dobrowolski Brings Hull’s Beaches To The Deep Car Park

Look Up is a year-long programme of temporary artworks commissioned by Hull UK City of Culture 2017, specifically made for Hull’s public spaces and places, co-curated by Andrew Knight and Hazel Colquhoun.

Hull 2017 is co-commissioning a number of Look Up artworks in partnership with The Deep. Each artwork will be very different, and will take place within different seasons of the Hull 2017 programme.

All have taken as their inspiration and starting point, the work, people and location of The Deep.

Washed Up Car-go, the first of these co-commissions at The Deep, has been created by artist Chris Dobrowolski, who studied at Hull School of Art and Design.

It consists of three cars, each containing a small section of beach, placed in the car park of The Deep. With this work, Dobrowolski aims to highlight the disposable culture of mass consumption, recreating the high tide and line of debris and pollution washed ashore within these specially modified cars.

Featuring material gathered from the Humber and Holderness Peninsula, plastic marine animals and video projections as the core of his new installation, Dobrowolski revisits a common theme to his work in playing on the notion of real and unreal.

Washed Up Car-go looks at environmental concerns around plastics and our oceans, asking us to question the life cycle of a product once bought, used and disposed of.

While studying in Hull, Chris spent most of his time building different vehicles in which to escape Hull. He’s somehow come full circle, and for Hull 2017 offers up a piece that works with the fabric of Hull’s shoreline and touches on pollution, consumerism and the traditions of maritime art.

Washed Up Car-go is produced by Artsadmin.

Louise Kirby, Operations Manager from The Deep said,

“We are delighted to launch the first of three installations which have been co-commissioned with Hull2017. Chris’s work is really inspiring and through this installation, we hope to further The Deep’s own message about plastic pollution and what you can do to combat this ever growing problem.”

Artist Chris Dobrowolski said; 

“Often with conceptual art there is a clear line between where art is supposed to finish and real life starts. At The Deep I saw the amazing spectacle of the main tank – an artificial under sea environment that gives a sense other worldliness and wonder. The contrast in grandeur between that and the car park has chimed with my ongoing theme of real and unreal.”

Sam Hunt, Executive Producer for Hull UK City of Culture said;

“Chris Dobrowolski’s Washed Up Car-go is a characteristically subversive look at one of the world’s significant and growing ecological issues, taking visitors to The Deep by surprise and luring them through this playful installation to consider major issues around our consumption of plastic.”

Look Up is a year-long programme of temporary artworks commissioned by Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and made for Hull’s public spaces and places, co-curated by Andrew Knight and Hazel Colquhoun.

This ambitious programme will respond to, and reveal in new and surprising ways, Hull’s remarkable architecture, streets and public spaces.

To date Look Up has brought Nayan Kulkarni’s Blade, which has now been removed from Queen Victoria Square, and Michael Pinsky’s The City Speaks which will remain in place on Hull’s Tidal Surge Barrier until the end of the year.

During seasons two and three, Look Up sees commissioned works popping up in shopping centres, train stations, car parks, streets and public squares, by artists including Bob & Roberta Smith, Tania Kovats, Claire Morgan and Claire Barber.

Look Up has been developed in partnership with a number of organisations and companies including The Deep, GF Smith, and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).



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