Contemporary Art Gallery Aspex based in Gunwharf Quays currently have two posts available. The gallery are seeking a Communications and business Development Manager as well as an Artist to work as an animateur. The animateur will use there creative skills to engage with the gallery audience and work on exciting and innovative projects.
This event runs the first Thursday of every month and this year has built up good momentum and a variety of performers. It really is an amazing space to play in and the crowd are so warm. The next After Hours is this Thursday the 1st of December and you can drop in between 6-8pm to join in and enjoy a bit of Dutch courage from the bar! I’m looking forward to knocking out a couple of Christmas songs.
So many shops and businesses are continuing to support local artists and designers on Albert Road. It really is so refreshing to see the explosion of creative talent in the city being fully embraced. The road has always celebrated an independent and community spirit which harnesses and promotes ‘local’.
Southsea Gallery has long been promoting this creativity and has a dedicated section in their gallery selling prints by locals. Recent additions include Ken Leung, Weaver, Jodie Silsby, Mark Persaud, Kate Cooke, Alex Ings, Kingsley Nebechi and our very own Tristan Savage. Loving the Salty Old Sea Dog by Kate Cooke. Many of these also took part in the Strong Island exhibition at the Round Tower back in April when nearly 6,000 people came through the doors.
Flo & Stan’s are also wonderful at highlighting and selling local artwork. From badges, necklaces, bags, clothes, prints, canvases to postcards, books and quirky vintage objects that every home should have. A new book of photographs by Irma Rose Pettitt has just gone on sale there along with gorgeous skull necklaces by Elle Sexton.
Wallspace Gallery has recently started selling Simon Whitcomb’s ‘Zombie’s in Southsea’ print.
Bonzo Studio is the new kid on the road and fully celebrating being part of a thriving creative scene by offering workshops in screen-printing, software and business development and also selling work by local artists and designers.
Thanks to all the traders on the road and of course not forgetting Parmiters, Bored, LJR’s, Garbo’s Salon, Head Hairdressing, Dead Man’s Glory, Bellamy’s Antiques and many more who also help promote artists and designers by collaborating, advertising, exhibiting and selling their work.
Below – Southsea Gallery
Below – Irma Rose Pettitt book at Flo & Stan’s.
Below – Elle Sexton necklace at Flo & Stan’s.
Below – Bonzo Studio
Below – Local books for sale at Bellamy’s Antiques
The Art Space Portsmouth New Fine Art Graduate Award supports a promising student from the University of Portsmouth to exhibit at GASP – Gallery Art Space Portsmouth. This year’s award winner is Steve Chivalry and details for his exhibition are below along with some samples of his work. Some of you might remember Steve’s work in Garbo’s Salon on Albert Road last year. Well done Steve.
Exhibition: 18th- 29th October 2011 Private View: Friday 21st of October, 6.00pm-8.00pm. Also open: Saturday 22nd October, 12-4pm.
All other times by appointment only. Contact Steve on 07815579808, email stevechiv@hotmail.co.uk, or visit www.stevechivalry.tk
“Look but don’t touch… touch but don’t taste…taste but don’t swallow ” -Devils Advocate
Steve’s work walks hand in hand with raw human emotion, nurturing human emotions and guiding people to think about their own life situations. A lot of steve’s paintings are confrontational and designed to be so. His sculptures are designed to make you think of your current position in the reality of the present moment. The quote above taken from the film / novel Devils Advocate, highlights the inquisitive naivety of the human nature, a theme that runs visibly throughout Steve’s work.
The work within the exhibition is a collective of Steve’s most popular pieces from 2010-2011.
‘Forces of Nature’ 19 June – 10 July 2011
New oil paintings by Nicola Rose & ceramic sculptures by GCSE students from Ditcham Park School. Private view: 18 June 2011, 7pm onwards. Please email lynn@abovetheblue.co.uk or ring 02392 377099 for an invite. Location: Above the Blue gallery, The Upper Boardwalk, Port Solent, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 4TP
Exhibition opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 10.30am – 7pm Sunday 11am – 5pm www.abovetheblue.co.uk
This is the second collection of paintings Nicola has exhibited at Above the Blue following glowing praise for her powerful, dramatic compositions and her sophisticated use of colour and texture.
The final line-up for the Strong Island exhibition at The Round Tower from 16th April – 1st May is as follows:
In no particular order:
Rob Trigg, Diana Goss, Farfk, Pseudonym, Inksquatch, Matt Howarth, My Dog Sighs, Jodie Silsby, Bruce Jamieson, Dave Thompson, Mikey Ayling, Louise Bush, Joe Cavalla, Sodavekt, Matt O’Neill, Alex Ings, Lorna Apps Woodland, Tom McCaughan, Roo Abrook, Andrew Whyte, Ashley John, Ken Leung, Paul Gonella, Tristan Savage, Claire Sambrook, Deane Clark, The Caravan Gallery, Thomas Keegan, Lloyd Jones, Lucy Doherty, Ben Hoath, Lorna Harrington, Mimic, Mark Persaud, Kingsley Nebechi and Jack Margerison.
Nominated by aspex – Arran Macintosh.
PLUS – Badger Press, aspex, James Weaver and Bored will be selling work in the Round Tower shop.
Some of the exhibitors are also documenting their progresses. Joseph Cavalla, Ashley John and Lloyd Jones are featured below.
Be sure to visit the Round Tower website to see progress.
The talented illustrator Arran Mackintosh has his first show at aspex this Wednesday evening 9th February.
“Addressing themes of civilisation and visual identity, Illustrious Nation showcases new and recent work by the winner of the 2010 Graduate Award.
Arran Mackintosh studied BSc Illustration at the University of Portsmouth and since graduating has gained recognition for his imaginative and innovative drawing-based digital and handmade work. In 2010 Arran’s painstakingly-produced The Scroll of Britain was highly commended in the Macmillan Prize for children’s books.”
10 February – 20 March 2011
Preview: Wednesday 9 February, 6 – 8pm
Portsmouth design agency Sifer Design have unveiled their new vinyls at Mountbatten Gallery, Guildhall to advertise the new Alien Invasion exhibition which opens at Portsmouth Museum on 26 June 2010. Incredible work from Carl, Dan and Luke.
This is the first in a series of vinyls that will be displayed by them over the coming year.
ARC and Aspex are putting on a ‘Winter Solstace’ party at the gallery for the current exhibit ‘Solstice’ by artist Neeta Madahar and composer Miguel d’Oliverira.
“Filmed during the Summer and Winter Solstices in rural England, Neeta Madahar’s high definition video installation presents an intimate and immersive encounter with ever-changing midsummer and midwinter skies. Accompanied by an atmospheric orchestral soundtrack, Solstice explores time, memory and the cyclical patterns of nature…For each film, a fixed camera was pointed at the sky, with Polaris (the North Star) appearing in the centre of the frame. A team of camera operators working shifts then recorded for 24 hours from midnight to midnight, with the camera on time-lapse mode shooting 25 times a minute. Each hour was condensed into a minute of footage, so, in total, the 24 hours of each solstice were captured in 36,000 stills and subsequently translated into a 24-minute film.”
Sounds amazing as does the party. For more information check out Aspex Events and ARC on Facebook. Be sure to contact ARC on 02392 778080 or resource@aspex.org.uk if you want to go, it’s free but places are limited.
Only in it’s infancy, Southsea Gallery has already established the top floor of Cafe Citrus as Southsea’s first photographic gallery and has seen some good trading in their shop on Albert Road, just a few doors down.
Proprietors Paul and Sarah are really nice people and I advise going for a look around and a chat, especially if you’re a local photographer or artist.
This is another step forward for both Albert Road and the city and Paul hopes to see more galleries in the future. We’ll keep you posted with any new exhibitions coming up and you never know, maybe myself and Gonz could be gracing the walls of Cafe Citrus in the future!
You can contact the Southsea Gallery at mail@southseagallery.co.uk
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- 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 got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- 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.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months 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.
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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