Lauren Saunders Art

Lauren Saunders Art Lauren Saunders - Artist, Hull 2017 City of Culture

Lauren is a London-born multi-disciplinary visual artist who now lives and works in Hull, UK.

Visual and Participatory Artist | Building Nature Kinship in communities | Co-Director The Critical Fish | Available for projects | All images ©️

www.laurensaundersart.co.uk

Note - Follow me on Instagram (where I'm much more active!) - Often contextually rich and meaningful, Lauren's art-making approach is eclectic and experimental when creating original, high quality pieces. Profe

ssional prints and postcards are available for most works, as are original and bespoke hand-made cards for all occasions. All prices available on request. Lauren is also actively champions mental health awareness and the important role art has to play within meaningful mental health recovery both locally and nationwide, by sharing her original research with organisations and communities and by teaching art groups and workshops professionally.

Bit late again sharing what events I have on for you this month… whoops!It might seem a bit quiet but there’s loads goin...
04/09/2026

Bit late again sharing what events I have on for you this month… whoops!

It might seem a bit quiet but there’s loads going on behind the scenes ahead of other lovely stuff. Still, here’s what I’d love for you participate in this month!!

🌺 CREATIVE LEVEN: FABRIC FLOWERS
4-5.30pm on Weds 23 Sept @ Leven Library
Come make some cute flowers with me to last through the winter! FREE
Book ahead through the East Riding Libraries website: https://www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/events/?entry=creative_leven_fabric_flower_badges&instance=2026092316001730

🐳 WHALING AND WHALE OIL STORYLINES WORKSHOP
10am-2pm (drop in) on Sat 26 Sept @ Ferens Art Gallery. Share and explore your stories about the Humbers Whaling and Whale Oil industry over creative activity and a free lunch as part of the The TRANSECTS Project research into marine energy transitions.
Drop in, but find out more here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whale-oil-storysharing-workshop-tickets-1999537988951

🚶‍♂️ WHALING HERITAGE WALK
3-4pm(ish) on Sat 26 Sept, meeting outside Ferens Art Gallery. Join the TRANSECTS team on a local walk around city centre exploring the history of Hull’s whaling history and legacy. FREE.
Turn up on time, but find out more here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whale-oil-heritage-walkshop-tickets-1998755694086

That’s all folks! 🐷

Today was the first workshop of my Artist Residency at Leven Library! We explored Momigami - which is a technique that t...
26/08/2026

Today was the first workshop of my Artist Residency at Leven Library!

We explored Momigami - which is a technique that turns paper into a type of leathery textile that you do other craft with. It’s probably one of my favourite paper-based techniques because it’s so sensory, and I’m glad everyone else enjoyed themselves and the technique too 🥰

The prompt was to make some bunting… but a few of us did our own thing (like hats and flowers!) as well as make some very colourful bunting using all these paper scraps 🌻

The next workshop at Leven Library, as part of this co-designed programme, is making Fabric Flowers. This is already fully booked but keep an eye out for my other monthly workshops on the East Roding Libraries What’s On page: https://www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/

🌊 CALL OUT FOR MARINE ENERGY STORIES! 🌊I want to hear your stories about working or living alongside marine energy indus...
23/08/2026

🌊 CALL OUT FOR MARINE ENERGY STORIES! 🌊

I want to hear your stories about working or living alongside marine energy industries in the Humber region!

I'm creatively supporting a team of university researchers to discover the real-life stories about whaling, oil and gas, and renewable energies hidden within our local Humber community... so we're inviting people in for a natter!

Drop-into our upcoming themed workshops at the Hull Maritime Museum, enjoy a free lunch and creative activities, and tell us your stories about marine energy:

🐋 Whales/Whale Oil: 10am - 2pm on Sat 26 Sept
🛢️Oil and Gas: 10am - 2pm on Sat 14 Nov
🌬️ Renewables: 10am - 2pm on Sun 15 Nov

You might like to tell us about changes you’ve seen in your community, jobs, challenges and opportunities, memories, hopes and concerns for the future of marine energy... or bring along photos, documents, tools, uniforms or equipment for us to take a snap of.

We're also going to be doing themed public walks too... stay posted for more details about those!

More info about the in my pinned posts, https://transects.org.uk/ or https://laurensaundersart.co.uk/transects-humber/

Please share this with anyone you know with a connection to the local marine energy industry, currently or historically - let's get the word out together ☀️ Thanks :)

Today was my last Arty Bods of the summer!Inspired by the big windows and churchy connection in Humber Street Gallery’s ...
22/08/2026

Today was my last Arty Bods of the summer!

Inspired by the big windows and churchy connection in Humber Street Gallery’s current exhibition, ‘If Memory Serves Me Well’ by Charlotte Dawson, we made these colourful stained glass sun catchers ☀️ they’re all so cheerful!

My mate Faith Foster is delivering next week’s (and last) Arty Bods sesh, where you’ll be experimenting with hidden drawings! Book a free place for you and your 5-11 year old HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989911859940 - there’s a few tickets left!

People of the Humber! I want to hear your 'power stories' about marine energy in the area!! 🌊The Humber has a long marit...
21/08/2026

People of the Humber! I want to hear your 'power stories' about marine energy in the area!! 🌊

The Humber has a long maritime history of energy - from whale oil, to oil and gas, to the renewable energy industries shaping our future.

But what have these changes meant for the people and communities who live and work here?

I'm the local artist for the The TRANSECTS Project, which is a UHI/UHI Orkney research initiative exploring this topic to understand how real marine energy stories from the past and present can help make future marine energy industries fairer and more resilient.

Through a series of themed creative storysharing workshops and local walks this autumn, we're inviting you to share your memories, experiences and stories of energy in the Humber:

💬 Changes you’ve seen in your community
🏭 Jobs, industries and ways of life
⚓ Challenges, opportunities and things that have been lost or gained
🔅 Your hopes and concerns for the future of marine energy
🐋 What’s been good... and what hasn’t
🔨 The objects you might bring: photographs, documents, tools, uniforms, or equipment.

Come along, share your story, and help shape the conversation about the Humber’s energy future.

Please share with anyone you know with a connection to the local energy industry - let's get the word out!! More information about upcoming events coming very soon - follow for updates!

Found a new approach to painting that I really like today whilst co-delivering ‘A Picture Paints A Thousand Words’, a Th...
21/08/2026

Found a new approach to painting that I really like today whilst co-delivering ‘A Picture Paints A Thousand Words’, a The Wollstonecraft Society workshop at The Hut in Withernsea.

Inspired by Mary Wollstonecrafts life and legacy, some of the prompts included:

💙 Paint your vision of a better future
🧡 Paint a self-portrait (like the one we had of Mary)
💚 Paint something you care about

… and here’s what I painted! I really love this style of drawing and painting: contour drawing (my favourite type of drawing) plus a limited colour palette blocked into the spaces. They’re colourful, fun and a bit on the wonk... Might have to paint a few more things like this!

19/08/2026

I think through making. It helps to order disparate thoughts and find connections through materials, processes and meaning.

The - which I’m the commissioned artist for in the Humber - is all about discovering the real stories behind marine energy industries through time (whale oil > oil and gas > regenerative energy), so we might learn something useful about future energy production from it. And I’ve come to the conclusion that lino printing is a material and process that connects them all:

🐳 Like sailors carving into scrimshaw, we carve lines and stories into lino
🛢️ The modern lino we use is made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and synthetic polymers… which are direct byproducts of the petrochemical industry
💨 The material is flexible and yielding - but strong. Much like the material demands of wind turbines. It’s not one-use either… images can be printed again and again.

Like the process and material, the illustration also blends all three industries into one image. I think this little fellas pretty cute to be fair. And I’ll be printing this soon (when I find suitable space to do it!)

We’ve got some events in Hull coming up too… I’ll be sharing details when I have them! Watch this space!

How many of these famous artists do you recognise?Today I had the pleasure of facilitating a Pocket Companions (aka Worr...
18/08/2026

How many of these famous artists do you recognise?

Today I had the pleasure of facilitating a Pocket Companions (aka Worry Doll) workshop as part of Hull and East Yorkshire Mind’s Wellbeing Week down Humber Street!

Inspired by the tradition of Guatemalan worry dolls but with a contemporary twist, participants created their own pocket-sized companions using simple materials and mindful wrapping techniques. In Guatemalan folk tradition, you would share your anxieties to your worry dolls before bedtime, with the belief they would hold them through the night. I used to tell my worries to my teddy, Lambsy! But these dolls have another job to do in your pocket… whatever you ask them to mean.

I made this artist collection almost a decade ago to illustrate different pocket doll making techniques… who can you spot? I’ve numbered them all on the last pic… lets see if you can can figure them all out together in the comments!!

I really enjoyed doing this chill craft workshop today - thank you for inviting me to take part in Wellbeing Week Hull and East Yorkshire Mind / Fruit Market Hull! They’ve got loads of other fantastic family friendly activities on this week for Wellbeing Week so please go along and support this fantastic charity!

🔗 https://heymind.org.uk/wellbeing-week/

17/08/2026

🌳

Sun was shining, and the Arty Bods got designing ☀️We took over Humber Street and used to cyanotype printing to create B...
15/08/2026

Sun was shining, and the Arty Bods got designing ☀️

We took over Humber Street and used to cyanotype printing to create BLUEPRINTS of our fantastical playground designs this morning. Anti-gravity slides to the sky and solar powered spinners, anyone? Was a lot of fun out on the street too!

Arty Bods is a 6-week creative programme for 5-11year olds (and their grown ups) at Humber Street Gallery, in response to the themes of the current exhibition… which is Charlotte Dawson’s If Memory Serves Me Well’.

Next week we’ll be creating ‘stained glass’ suncatchers! And the week after, Faith Foster will be facilitating an exciting hidden drawing workshop eyes 👀

You can book you and your child onto these two FREE upcoming Arty Bods sessions on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arty-bods-with-lauren-saunders-tickets-1989910940189. We look forwards to seeing you there!

Address

Ferensway
Kingston Upon Hull
HU13

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Sunday 9am - 8pm

Telephone

+447862983694

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Lauren Saunders Art posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Establishment

Send a message to Lauren Saunders Art:

Shortcuts

Share

Category