A curated roundup of creative opportunities in Hull, including Ferens Open Exhibition, Generation Hull apprenticeships, Back to Ours artist commission, HEY Mind’s Mindful Makers Market and more.

Hull Open Studios returns on Saturday 2 May with free entry, talks, workshops and more than 30 artists and studios opening their doors across the city.

 A quick Browse edit of the shows worth making time for right now, from Ferens and Humber Street Gallery to neighbourhood and artist-led spaces across the city.

ARTIST FEATURE: Mr Joe Johnson - Mr Joe, AKA Joe Johnson is an Imaginarium artist from East Hull. You’ll usually find him swiggin’ Guinness through a straw outside of Dive, when he’s not pushing buttons at his day job at Siemens.

‘A view of Hull through the lens of International Exchange Student Albaraa Almasari’ Sometimes, a photo appears on your Insta explore page and stops you in your tracks: the composition, the unusual perspective, the evocation of a specific moment forever captured in time.

What happens when a city is forced in to playing by the rules of a subculture it barely understands?