JO BUSHNELL @ ASPEX GALLERY PORTSMOUTH
Video review of Cut-&-Shut at Art Space Portsmouth by Jo Bushnell (Director of Aspex Gallery Portsmouth). Work in Cut-&-Shut made by Year 2 Fine Art students at UCA Farnham.
Live Poetry at Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth
my first poetry reading in front of an audience at Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth
Art Council England Funds Aspex Gallery Makeover
A modern art gallery in Portsmouth has secured funding for a major face-lift.
The significant cash injection will transform the Aspex gallery’s interior and also enable it to set up a brand new mobile gallery to bring art into the community.
Charlotte Briere-Edney reports.
Aspex Gallery | 35 and Counting Exhibit VT
Its Art Work On A Postcard Please At The Aspex Gallery In Portsmouth
The Aspex gallery in Portsmouth have launched their latest community project.
Called “Postcards from my neighbourhood”, the project asked locals to show what they like and don’t like about the city in which they live.
Using a mixture of hand drawings, photographs, illustrations and collages, over 700 postcard sized works of art have now been submitted.
Creating Communities Workshop at Aspex Gallery | Refugee Week 2018
A free family event on Sunday 24 June at Aspex Gallery, Gunwharf Quays Portsmouth.
Journeys Festival International 2018 and the British Red Cross ran a day of free activities at Aspex as part of #RefugeeWeek and Portsmouth Festivities.
There were opportunities for families to take part in several creative arts workshops including banner making, textile workshops and poetry to celebrate diversity in the city.
Funded through ISD Google and Arts Council England.
Ollie Tubb From Aspex Gallery Discusses Latest Exhibition
Ollie Tubb is from the Aspex Gallery which is in Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth. The Gallery has just opened its latest exhibition - called 12 - which deals with substance misuse. Ollie joined us in the studio to tell us more.
Interchange - Anna Heinrich & Leon Palmer
Interchange
Interchange has been created by artists Anna Heinrich & Leon Palmer working with pupils from St George’s Beneficial Church of England Primary School, Portsmouth – After School Club. It has been made in response to the recent developments at the Hard Transport Interchange in Portsea.
Over a seven week period the artists led a series of workshops at the Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, exploring the transformation and interchange of spaces. The group created their own camera obscura boxes filled with imaginary model buildings and cityscapes inspired by the architectural landscape of Portsea. Projection mapping techniques were used to create interchangeable scenes and spaces using video footage and photography of urban and natural environments.
Inspired by the children’s creations, the artists have made this film which combines and projects their own video footage taken from around The Hard and Portsea with the children’s own models.
Interchange is a culmination of these journeys that span real and imaginary worlds.
Artists: Anna Heinrich & Leon Palmer
Participants: St George’s Beneficial Church of England Primary School - After School Club
Commissioned by Aspex
Supported by Portsmouth City Council
Portsmouth dinosaur fire report on BBC South Today
The fire which destroyed the Ultrasaurus sculpture on Southsea Seafront on the morning of Friday 1st October 2010 was reported on South Today, the BBC local news programme.
This clip shows a statement from Aspex Gallery Director Joanne Bushnell as well as footage of the sculpture both before and after the fire.
How An Exhibition Is Giving A Platform To Emerging Artists
Portsmouth’s Aspex gallery is a hub for new and emerging artists, both from the city and further afield.
And every two years the gallery host an international competition for contemporary art, working in a broad range of media.
From over 300 entries, just 8 were chosen to display their work, with one overall winner.
Monocular View (landscape version) - Full version
“Meditation on the tension between past [and] present”. Paul Young, Art Cinema.
Monocular View sees artist Kye Wilson responding to the unique character of Fort Brockhurst, using time-based media to create a new immersive site-specific video installation.
Re-contextualising the forts’ history he will offer audiences an embodied experience, blurring the distinctions between time, place, self and other.
Monocular View was inspired by the imagined views looking out from the fort (‘field of fire’ defence positions, now overgrown) combined with those looking into the fort (from the perspective of an invading enemy).
Each viewpoint slowly dissolves into an oppositional one, achieving a sense of “continuous present”, the feeling of experiencing the present moment unfolding and disappearing.
Monocular View has been commissioned by Space Interrupted.
Space Interrupted is generously supported by Arts Council England and partners English Heritage and aspex gallery Portsmouth.
spaceinterrrupted.wordpress.com
kyewilson.co.uk
A Portsmouth Man Combining Art And Nature To Deal With Serious Illness
Combining art and nature has helped artist Adrian Mundy to deal with M.E. and agoraphobia, which have affected him for almost a quarter of a century. He literally grew his exhibition from seeds. It is now on display at Aspex Gallery. Nicole Ris reports.
Faces event
The voices of Portsmouth past have been brought back to life by a variety of individuals of all ages from the diverse communities of Portsmouth.
This extraordinary multi-sensory immersive, audio/visual spectacular is like nothing seen before, featuring people from Portsmouth today (as giant talking heads), telling the story of the city in the lead up to the Great War, 100 years ago.
The new film was projected onto a monumental, purpose-built outdoor screen situated in the starboard arena (next to HMS Victory), Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Credits:
Director - Wilson-Eflerová, (Kye Wilson and Helena Eflerová).
Cinematographer - Neil Hunt.
Editor – Neil Hunt.
Narrator – Vincent Adams
Photography - Barry Baseley and Peter Missen.
Production Assistants – Tom Alderson, Barry Baseley and Dewi Cary.
Make-Up – Cynthia Wilson.
Live Performance with audience participation – Helena Eflerová.
Researchers – Alan Morris, Graham Dean, Graham Dew, Venita Symmons, Paul Syms and Sally Thomas.
Installations - Spike Film and Video and Urban Entertainment.
Production and Editing (event video) – Shedlight Productions.
Special thanks to Portsmouth Festivities, Portsmouth Grammar School, Portsmouth History Centre, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Gabriel Galvéz, Hugh Greasley, Kate Laine-Toner, Kerry McPhail, Peter Missen, Andy Moss, John Sackett, Samantha Worsey.
Faces is commissioned by the Portsmouth Festivities, in partnership with the National Museum of Royal Navy. Sponsored using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is sponsored by The Portsmouth Grammar School and National Museum of Royal Navy. Supported by Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Aspex Gallery, University of Portsmouth and Portsmouth City Council.
Faces is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is sponsored by The Portsmouth Grammar School and National Museum of Royal Navy.
Supported by Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Aspex Gallery, University of Portsmouth and Portsmouth City Council.
Monocular View (landscape version) - Clip
“Meditation on the tension between past [and] present”. Paul Young, Art Cinema.
Monocular View sees artist Kye Wilson responding to the unique character of Fort Brockhurst, using time-based media to create a new immersive site-specific video installation.
Re-contextualising the forts’ history he will offer audiences an embodied experience, blurring the distinctions between time, place, self and other.
Monocular View was inspired by the imagined views looking out from the fort (‘field of fire’ defence positions, now overgrown) combined with those looking into the fort (from the perspective of an invading enemy).
Each viewpoint slowly dissolves into an oppositional one, achieving a sense of “continuous present”, the feeling of experiencing the present moment unfolding and disappearing.
Monocular View has been commissioned by Space Interrupted.
Space Interrupted is generously supported by Arts Council England and partners English Heritage and aspex gallery Portsmouth.
spaceinterrrupted.wordpress.com
kyewilson.co.uk
Monocular View (portrait version) - Clip
“Meditation on the tension between past [and] present”. Paul Young, Art Cinema.
Monocular View sees artist Kye Wilson responding to the unique character of Fort Brockhurst, using time-based media to create a new immersive site-specific video installation.
Re-contextualising the forts’ history he will offer audiences an embodied experience, blurring the distinctions between time, place, self and other.
Monocular View was inspired by the imagined views looking out from the fort (‘field of fire’ defence positions, now overgrown) combined with those looking into the fort (from the perspective of an invading enemy).
Each viewpoint slowly dissolves into an oppositional one, achieving a sense of “continuous present”, the feeling of experiencing the present moment unfolding and disappearing.
Monocular View has been commissioned by Space Interrupted.
Space Interrupted is generously supported by Arts Council England and partners English Heritage and aspex gallery Portsmouth.
spaceinterrrupted.wordpress.com
kyewilson.co.uk
nuR. by Michael Newbon
Official Selection at Screentest National Student Film Festival 2013.
Official Selection at New Creatives Exhibition 2013, aspex Gallery.
A couple are scared, out of breath and hiding. Slipping backwards through time, they spring back into the air as their pursuers are closing in. Occurring in reverse slow-motion this film deals with wider themes of audience perception.
nuR by Michael Newbon©
A2 Digital Film, Portsmouth College 2012-13
Creating Communities: Carnival Crafts with Hong Dam
Part of Journeys 2018 project in Portsmouth, produced by ArtReach. Creating Communities: Carnival Crafts workshop with Hong Dam were delivered at Southsea Fire Station.
This marvellous community dragon will form part of our 'Creating Communities Procession' at Fratton Community Centre on 28 October. Journeys Festival International Portsmouth brings 10 days of world class arts and events to Portsmouth 19-28 October 2018.
Journeys 2018 and Journeys Festival International brings international sounds and global inspired artwork to Portsmouth, sharing the art work of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists.
Funded through ISD Google and Arts Council England.
Art in Portsmouth 27-10-2017
This weeks show is all about Art in Portsmouth. We’ll be looking at the diversity of artistic talent Portsmouth has to offer and hopefully encourage you to support your local artists or even create artwork of your own. With art being created live in the studio as well as a visit to the Aspex Gallery. Well done Team Red for your first broadcast this academic year!
A Morning at Eastney
all shot on my iPhone
Creating Communities Workshop at SouthSea Skate Park | Journeys2018
Southsea Skatepark is quite possibly the oldest and most iconic skatepark in the UK and on the 25th July local skaters were invited to work on a new project with ArtReach (which delivers the annual Journeys Festival International from 19-28 October) in collaboration with a professional photographer and award winning artist Sam Ivin.
Sam Ivin will met with young people at the skatepark and chatted about his work with refugee & asylum seekers and his photography book ‘Lingering Ghosts‘. This was followed by a chance to join in free Polaroid photography workshops and write messages of welcome to refugees which will be printed on a banner to be used during a procession as part of Journeys Festival International in October.
The project, supported by ISD Google and the University of Portsmouth, was created to promote dialogue around issues of asylum and refuge but also to involve the skaters in supporting the larger festival later this year.
Funded through ISD Google and Arts Council England.