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BBC News
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Hull prepares for 50 giant rats in new art trail
A city is preparing for its streets to be filled with 50 giant rat sculptures as part of a new art trail to honour a local musician.A Mischief of Rats will be on display from 3 May in Hull and features 6ft tall (1.8m) painted rat sculptures for people to enjoy on a walking trail in the city. The art trail was created to pay tribute to rock musician Mick Ronson, who was from Hull and a member of the local 1960s band the Rats, before becoming David Bowie's Clare Huby previously said the trail would be launched ahead of what would have been the musician's 80th birthday on 26 May said: "I know people in Hull have been keen to have something that will honour Mick Ronson, so this just seemed like the perfect opportunity." Ms Huby added the project would also help the Daisy Appeal charity, which supports Cottingham's Castle Hill hospital, with the sculptures being auctioned in charity hopes to raise up to £250,000 for "cutting-edge research" into Ronson died of cancer in 1993 aged art trail, which is similar to previous projects, including Larkin with Toads, A Moth for Amy and Puffins Galore, will run until August. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
17-03-2025
- BBC News
Starfish sculpture trail bid to boost Hornsea visitor numbers
A culture trail planned for Hornsea featuring starfish sculptures is hoping to attract more people to the seaside Hornsea Collective is looking at launching a project similar to the Puffins Galore sculptures around East Yorkshire in well as looking to boost visitor numbers, the trail will highlight threats to wall-mounted sculptures will go up on buildings around the East Yorkshire town as part of a project called Starfish Galaxy. Sher King, founder of The Hornsea Collective, a not-for-profit business support and advice service, said: "We're going to have 10 starfish decorated by local artists and that will be the start of the trail."At the moment we are securing sponsorship... and depending on where the sponsorship businesses want them, that's where they will be located."The starfish will be about 6ft (1.8m) in diameter and will be displayed high on buildings to keep them artists decorating each starfish have already been chosen following an application plan is for smaller designs of the sculptures to be made, too, so people can put them on their garden hope the project can spread to other nearby resorts, such as Withernsea. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Why are rat statues coming to Hull?
Some colourful additions to the city of Hull will be scurrying their way to the city's streets very soon.A new trail of decorated rat statues are soon going to be put up across the East Yorkshire city, and the first of them has already been revealed. It's called Daisy Rat - isn't she cute?There will be 45 rats in total, and each of them will be about 6 feet tall, which is as tall as a fully grown man. Why are rat statues coming to Hull? The 45 rats are being placed around the city to commemorate a 1960s band called The were from Hull, and the guitarist Mick Ronson also went on to play guitar for super famous singer David art installation will be called A Mischief of Rats, as 'mischief' is the word for a group of the furry rodents. Organisers said the project would help the Daisy Appeal charity, which helps treat people with Stafford, chairman of the Daisy Appeal trustees committee said: "I think it'll be a real credit to the city to have the rat trail and it's wonderful for the charity."It brings us into people's vision and hopefully they will support us not just by supporting the rat project, but by supporting the charity in the longer term." The charity hopes to raise up to £250, it's not the first time they've raised money in this way; other similar art displays include Puffins Galore which raised £120, Mischief of Rats sculpture trail is expected to be completed by April 2025 and will open for three months from May.
