Is Britain Great? The Caravan Gallery UK Tour

02 Dec 2006 -
11 Feb 2007

Main Space

Is Britain Great? The Caravan Gallery UK Tour showcased the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain as recorded by Portsmouth-based artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale.
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Shanty

14 Jul -
09 Sep 2007

Main Space

Shanty includes works that refer to distant shores and others that make specific reference to Portsmouth.

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Still Life Killing Time

02 Feb -
22 Mar 2008

Main Space

For two years Edmund Clark photographed inside a unique prison community, E Wing at Kingston Prison, Portsmouth. For eight years this was Britain’s only wing dedicated to holding elderly life prisoners; rapists, paedophiles and other violent criminals aged from their [...]
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Witch Hunt

05 Sep -
01 Nov 2009

Main Space

Witches, Gypsies and hunting. In combination these three staple sources of hysteria, excitement and persecution assume peculiarly British airs, and British anti-graces.
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An Orrery For Other Worlds

06 Feb -
18 Apr 2010

Main Space

Andy Harper’s paintings seem to have no apparent beginning or end, they grow out from and deep into themselves, embracing and absorbing both the viewer and the space in which they are shown.

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An Unreachable Country. A Long Way To Go.

01 Aug -
11 Oct 2010

Off Site

Portsmouth and Southsea’s skyline was transformed in the Summer of 2010 by the spectacular addition of Luna Park, Heather & Ivan Morison’s recreation of the accidental dinosaur Ultrasauros. Created in the style of American roadside super-sculptures and standing at 16 metres tall on Southsea Common, Luna Park was visible from miles around.
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THE DISTANT NEAR

15 Sep -
24 Oct 2010

Off Site

Frauke returns to the city to make a three-site installation at the Old Guard Rooms, Gunwharf Quays and Boathouse 4, Historic Dockyard.
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It Has To Be This Way 1.5

23 Oct 2010 -
02 Jan 2011

Main Space

It has to be this way1.5 is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’ continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the young woman, her stepsister, Christine Parkes.
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How Should I Live? (Maybe That’s Not The Question)

15 Jan -
27 Mar 2011

Main Space

S. Mark Gubb’s exhibition explores the nature of our very existence. Inspired by and taking it’s title from a line in the film, Wings of Desire, by Wim Wenders, the show offers us the opportunity to probe our ambitions, beliefs and [...]
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BE MY GUIDE TONIGHT

27 Apr -
05 Jun 2011

Cafe

Aspex welcomes back its ‘favourite leisure time artist’ for a solo exhibition of charmingly kitsch and humorous, yet equally poignant work.

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