Join a gathering of friends and Contemporary British Painting colleagues in conversation discussing and remembering Judith Tucker and her paintings of The Humberston Fitties, created over more than a decade.
An informal get-together in the intimate, community space of the Albert Room in Cleethropes Library, which is host to a memorial, retrospective show of Judith Tucker’s paintings of The Humberston Fitties.
Judith was tragically killed in a car accident on 13 November 2023. The Fitties, one of the few remaining plotlands left in the U.K., lies just two a half miles from Cleethorpes, a ramshackle and individualistic collection of seaside chalets creating a unique community since between the wars. Judith and her poet collaborator, Harriet Tarlo, discovered The Fitties when invited to work along the local coastline by Cleethorpes own Linda Ingham, curator and artist, over a decade ago and have made work there ever since. Over the years, they worked with the community, and other collaborators including photographer and artist, Annabel McCourt, and bird ecologist, Nicola Hemmings, to create exhibitions and bring workshops and drop-ins on the heritage, bird life and plant life of this unique seaside location to the Fitties. Judith Tucker’s Fitties has been shown, locally, at the Cleethorpes Discovery Centre, Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre and 2021Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, and all over the U.K. in Swansea, Sheffield, Scarborough, Norwich, Middlesborough and numerous London venues. A unique selection of Judith’s work, from her earliest paintings of the site, to the Night Fitties series and most recent Hideaway archival paintings, alongside works that highlight the natural environment and represent her collaboration with Harriet Tarlo, will be shown at Cleethorpes Library for local people to engage again with her practice and remember her.
During 2023, Judith was Chairperson of the Contemporary British Painting group.
The exhibtion runs from 1 May to 30 June, and admission is free.
There is limited parking at the library, and a larger public car park in Yarra Road, just behind the venue.
