Sock Puppet Productions is a new, local media production company and they just released a new documentary short film on local artist Pete Codling and his recent charcoal instillation at SPACE. The film covers Pete’s earlier years in the location as an art student right through to his final, site specific work in the gallery before it’s demolition.
Would you like to help The Caravan Gallery create their latest exhibition at SPACE gallery?
The exhibition is called PRIDE OF PLACE PROJECT – A People’s Perspective.
Details – PORTSMOUTH VIDEO PORTRAITS
“We need short videos of people telling us what they think is special about Portsmouth. We need a wide section of the community of all ages and occupations.
Each piece will last from 5 to 30 seconds so we need a brief, interesting or amusing anecdote which gives the viewer a personal and unusual insight to the city, whatever you opinion. It could be about a place, a feeling, an occurrence, a meeting, a smell, a person or something you have seen. In fact anything that is special to you and to do with Portsmouth.
Alongside the video we will also take a still portrait for the exhibition which you are welcome to keep at the end of the show.
If you would like to contribute please get in touch so we can arrange the filming. It would be very useful if you could think about your response and have a little practice in advance so that you know it fits our timeframe. Don’t forget, it can be a one liner or a short story but must be from a personal perspective – the more imaginative the better. We look forward to hearing from you.”
Jan and Chris – Email them at : admin@thecaravangallery.co.uk
Exhibition details at SPACE – 18 April to 18 May 2011, University of Portsmouth, Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth PO1 2DJ. Weekdays: 10am – 4pm, admission free, Preview: Monday 18 April, 5–7pm, Public talk: Wednesday 4 May, 2pm, all welcome
Hoping Strong Islanders make the most of this opportunity to tell your stories and feelings about the city you know and love.
Collective
Summer show of work for graduating students from Art, Design and Media plus Creative Technologies.
Opening Evening 4 June, 5-8pm
Open to the public Monday 7th-Friday 11th June, 10-4 daily and Saturday 12th June 10-3pm
To complement this, there will be a small exhibition of personal collections from staff in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries.
What is collection and why do we collect?
Members of staff from the Faculty reveal their collective treasures. There will be a small programme of lectures around this event.
CCi Space and Eldon Gallery are open to the public from 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday.
Access is from the Winston Churchill Avenue entrance.
I took some photos earlier of the Collect staff exhibition being installed at The University of Portsmouth.
Below a taster of BA Illustration student work.
SPACE at the University of Portsmouth will be showcasing a new touring contemporary art exhibition called Liminal’ by successful international public and gallery artist Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi. The artworks are a fascinating selection of photographic art, drawing, architectural glass and ‘time based media’ that explore the intrinsic nature of light and shadow as a metaphor of the landscape and architecture of Iran where Katayoun was born.
Katayoun trained in Edinburgh, Winchester and Barcelona and a number of works produced during her Doctorate of Philosophy, were an investigation into the intrinsic nature and application of light to produce experimental light drawings using a process called ‘Carbon Photography’; a 19th century pigment transfer technique onto glass and paper. She is only one of a handful of people worldwide who employ this technique in their practice. “There is ephemeral beauty in the world we inhabit; a liminal state almost too subtle or faint to knowingly experience, and sometimes so overwhelming that we become immersed by the experience, unable to define it. By working with glass and sunlight I have tried to reveal the hidden ephemera.”
Newer works in the exhibition are produced from double exposures onto 6 x 6 roll film and have a more formal relationship with the landscape, although what they represent is an experiential and personal journey, they are by the nature of their production artificial landscapes, self reflexive and evocative. More information on the show can be found here.
Exhibition Dates: 15 February – 5 March 2010 Open weekdays 10am – 4pm.
Admission free.
Preview: Friday 12 February 4pm – 7pm Meet the artist. Free refreshments.
Public Talk: Wednesday 17 February, 2pm
You may remember some of Katayoun’s work from last year’s Storm in a Tea Cup open house exhibition which Katayoun hosted in her Southsea home (you can see the Strong Island photos from the exhibition here).
You are invited to engage with Jon Adams, University of Portsmouth’s Artist in Residence, in SPACE at the Eldon Building from the 1st until 5th February. ‘The Order of Things’ event focuses on the following parts:
Part 1: Collate
Part 2: Conformate
Part 3: Coordinate
Part 4: Explicate
Part 5: Implicate
Part 6: Subordinate
Part 7 is minimalist interruptions: drawing, found sound and found object: Created as Artist in Residence and referencing the start of Creative Campus commission. Performances and artwork changes on each of the four days with the following sessions: 1st February 12 -4 and 2nd February, 4th February & 5th February are 10-4.
Come and Play with AA2A Wednesday 3rd February 12:30-4pm is slightly different where you can meet this years AA2A artists in residence and see them talking about their work on display and their experiences. There will be an opportunity to join in with them and engage in making work during the afternoon….and to find out more about the scheme and applying for 2010/11.
Current AA2A artists are Sue Freeborough, David Dixon, Sharon Kearley & Mandie Saw.
This event marks the beginning of a project to archive the regeneration of the Somerstown area with artistic and technological practice and theory through a partnership of Portsmouth University, Portsmouth City Council, Millard Woodroffe Contemporary Art and the Peoples Action Team for Community Harmony. The residents of Somerstown are invited to visit Portsmouth University’s SPACE Gallery where their memories of Somerstown will be filmed and recorded for use in the historical archiving of the area. Local artists will also be visiting the event to engage the residents with ideas for community engagement artworks that reflect the history of Somerstown and the personal histories of its inhabitants.
This event runs from 25-27 January and is open to the public from 10am to 4pm, Mon-Fri.
The SPACE Gallery in the Eldon Building will be hosting ‘Dark Forest’, an exhibition by the students of the School of Art Design and Media:
“Dark Forest is an engaging and interactive art show put on by BA Fine Art students of The School of Art, Design and Media in which they respond to the notions of ‘Dark Forest’ as a mythological, cultural, and metaphorical concept. Hosted by Creative Digital Practice and Theory (CDPT) of Portsmouth University in partnership with The School of Art, Design and Media.”
The exhibition runs from the 18th to the 22nd of January and is open to the public 10am – 4pm, Mon-Fri.
The SPACE gallery in the Eldon Building at the University of Portsmouth will be holding an exhibition by the students of Creative Technologies. The show will contain over 1000 photos by 35 students and be open from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, 19th to the 29th May. For more information check out SPACE and the Flickr group for the course unit.
Below is a photo by moonokwik, a member of the group.
This coming new year we will 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.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 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.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
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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