The Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries SPACE Off-site programme in partnership with Aspex will together showcase the creative works by young people from seven local FE and Sixth Form colleges in New Creatives, an artist-led exhibition project in its third year.
Dates: 21st April – 6 May 2012, 11am – 4pm daily, Admission free
Preview: Friday 20th April 6-8pm
Venue: Aspex, Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1 3BF
Website: www.newcreatives.org.uk
New Creatives is one of the outstanding projects granted the London 2012 Inspire mark, the badge of the London 2012 Inspire programme, which recognises exceptional and innovative projects inspired by the 2012 Games.
New Creatives is part of Creative Campus Initiative (a consortium of 11 universities in the South East) who have been nominated and shortlisted for a Podium Gold Award. There will be an Awards evening in May taking place at Forman’s Fish Island which overlooks the Olympic Stadium. The evening will be hosted by Rick Edwards, presenter of Channel Four’s “That Paralympic Show” and will also feature Paul Deighton, Chief Executive of London 2012 as one of the keynote speakers.
Southsea resident, PCM founder, creator of Free Art Friday and Strong Islander contributor My Dog Sighs is taking his can men on a little jolly up to London next week for his first solo exhibition. A total of forty new and unseen pieces will be exhibited at Pure Evil Gallery in Shorditch which has seen shows from the likes of Roa, Ben Eine and Sten & Lex. The cans have been very popular, featuring in a number of exhibitions in Portsmouth, Devon and London as well as a sell out edition of 30 cans which went in less than 4 hours in February.
The Exhibition’s opening night is next Thursday (19th April) from 6-9pm and runs for 10 days. A sizable crowd are already planning a trip up from Portsmouth to show their support (and drink the free beer) so email mydogsighs@hotmail.co.uk if you fancy sharing a lift.
Local artist and life-long Pompey fan Mark Kellett will be holding an exhibition of some of his work in the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth from Monday April 9 to Sunday April 15.
Mark has completed pieces on Blues players past and present, including David James, Joel Ward, Marko Futacs and Jimmy Dickinson. There will not only be the opportunity to see Mark paint but visitors will also be able to try their hand at creating some of their own Pompey art.
Some of Mark’s fantastic Pompey art will be up for auction during the event, with proceeds from the exhibitions going towards helping the club.
The exhibition will be open from 10am to 6pm every day, so please go down and show your support. Entrance is free.
In the artist’s first solo show in Portsmouth, Knox exhibits his new collection of work titled Party Animals; a series of paintings that illustrate not only his development since graduating from art school last year, but also his new found spontinaneity and energy in his practise. Recently taking studio residence at ArtSpace, Knox has been free to explore techniques of drawing and experimental ways of working resulting in the realisation and signficance of line.
In the past year, Knox has exhibited at 1000 Lakeside, Garbos Hair Salon and Portsmouth Guildhall and last summer exhibited work at the Signal Gallery and Truman Brewery in London. In Party Animals, Knox invites his audience to engage with his new body of work and the dialogue between art and the act of creating, celebrating a milestone in his artistic career.
Private View: 20th April 2012 and thereafter on the 21st, 22nd & 28th April 9:30 – 4:30pm All other times by appointment only.
Tuesday 3rd to Friday 6th April, 11.00am – 4.30pm
Students currently on the first year of the BTEC Level 3 Art and Design course at South Downs College, Portsmouth are showing some of their recent work in The Round Tower, Old Portsmouth. For the last six weeks the students have been working very hard to develop and produce work while working with a range of disciplines. The exhibition titled “Art of the Sea” is in an ideal location due to its theme and will show around 50 pieces that include photography, textiles, mixed media paintings and 3D work, some examples of work below.
For further information about the work please contact tjackson@southdowns.ac.uk.
The Illustrated Menagerie Exhibition is being put on by 1st Year Illustration students from the University of Portsmouth to support their Research Methodology/Self Publication part of the degree. A really nice concept that opens up the whole of the animal kingdom as a subject for creative thought.
The exhibition is being held at the Southsea Library on the 1st Floor from the 22/29th March from 3-6pm and you can see more examples of the work that will be on show over at www.illustrated-menagerie.posterous.com
Every year between February and April over 4000 instrumentalists, actors, singers and dancers flock to Portsmouth to take part in the Portsmouth Music Festival. Founded during World War I to improve the quality of life for the residents of Portsmouth city, the festival has grown from strength to strength since 1917. Since these humble beginnings the festival has been driven by the voluntary dedication of passionate individuals dedicated to preserving this history and providing valuable opportunities to
developing performers of all ages. It remains a registered charity to this day.
This year sees Portsmouth’s 80th Music Festival, which is being celebrated by holding it’s closing ‘Gala Concert’ at The King’s Theatre, Southsea, to showcase the impressive and exciting variety of the participating performers. “The standard of performers in this years’ festival has been spectacular” says DiElle, Head of Vocal, “and the programme for the Gala Concert is really exciting – from Shakespeare to singer-songwriters!”.
The Gala Concert includes performances from Bosmere Choir, St. John’s Chapel Choir, singer-songwriter Matt Benham, Ditcham Park School Concert Band, rock band Appollotone, The Smith Brothers saxophone trio, and much more drama, dance and music.
For the finale item, this diverse company of performers are joining together to perform the Take That hit ‘Rule The World’ as a one off unique collection of musicians!
The Portsmouth Music Festival Committee are raising money for their brand new fund to provide bursaries for young people pursuing further or specialist education in performing arts. “We hope to assist young people studying performing arts by providing some money towards books and materials” says Gwenda Dearsley, Chairman. Proceeds from ticket sales, and a collection at the Gala Concert will go towards providing these grants. Information about how to apply for grants will be on the festival website after the event www.portsmouthmusicfestival.co.uk Tickets for the Gala Concert are available from the King’s Theatre Box Office on 023 9282 8282
Im just way too excited about this exhibition! What happens when you take a group of young people (The Futurators) from Portsmouth and get them to curate an art show? The answer will be revealed this Saturday, starting at 11am at Portsmouth’s hottest new art space in Room 237 with a film by artist Hannah Blackmore. The film is about our very own Elm Grove which includes interviews with residents and shopkeepers and is sure to let us in on a whole new world.
A special MP3 has been created with instructions that will help you participate on the 24th, leading you from Room 237 to Aspex, listen and download it here. The show is multi-venue and runs from March 24th to 18th April and includes work by Bermingham and Robinson, Sean Edwards and Ben Wilson who is well known for painting on chewing gum left on the pavement.
Are you intrigued yet? I know I am.
image taken from Hannah Blackmore’s film about Elm Grove
This year we are be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 10 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot. Please note that all submitted photos will be cropped square in order to be displayed. This is mainly due to the number of Phoneography photos that are already in square format.
The call for entires has begun and the deadline is the 4th of May 2012 with the exhibition being held shorty after at Bonzo Studios on Albert Road who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space.
We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but we’ve got to say that this will be one of the best prize hauls we have ever offered.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
You can download the posters HERE and HERE and it would be great if you could help promote not only our exhibition but your exhibition by putting them up locally.
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
The Royal Marines Museum on Eastney Street will host a multimedia exhibition ‘Shoulder2Shoulder, Delivering the Offer’ from Monday 2nd April to Friday 20th April 2012. The exhibition showcases over one hundred photos and artwork from frontline photographers, journalists and renowned war artist Andrew Miller, who worked alongside the Royal Marines in Afghanistan in 2011.
This will be the first time that the photographs and artwork have been exhibited to the public in Hampshire. The Royal Marines Museum is open 7 days a week, from 10am to 5pm and entry to the exhibition is included in the Museum ticket price.
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