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Lisa Traxler Exhibition
St Thomas's Cathedral
18 - 29 June. Open daily
During the spring term artist Lisa Traxler has been working at Portsmouth Grammar School with images from the School Archive to produce work that will celebrate the publishing of the School History. Using photographs, canvas and paper Lisa has created artwork about the stories and history of people and places at PGS throughout the 20th Century. Her work will be on display in the Cathedral during the Festivities. There will also be a display of work in the David Bawtrey Building at PGS during the same dates, which will include some of the original photographs, and work done on the same theme by Year 10 pupils at PGS.
Admission FREE
Ruins & Monuments - Nils Norman
Aspex Gallery
Open until 20 July 11am - 6 pm Tues to Sat, 11am-5pm Sunday. Closed Mondays.
This new commission by Nils Norman addresses Portsmouth’s urban landscape. The exhibition in the gallery is accompanied by a series of poster works by the artist in bus shelters around Portsmouth and a new permanent mural for Gunwharf Quays pedestrian subway. Ruins and Monuments explores the changing nature of public space, city design, and the challenges of urban ecology.
The exhibition itself includes sculptures and digital drawings featuring local architectural landmarks, adapted and recycled by the artist. We are invited to re-imagine the city, considering how urban life could be more sustainable, the DIY reclamation of public space by local people and the re-appropriation of history.
Nils Norman is based in London and has exhibited internationally. Commissions in 2007 included Tate Modern, Piccadilly Circus underground station in London, as well as exhibitions in Vienna, Seville and Miami.
Ruins and Monuments is organised by aspex in association with Gunwharf Quays Management Ltd.
Admission FREE
The Making of the Royal Marines Commando Exhibition
The Royal Marines Museum
Opens June 2008
Open daily 10am to 5pm
See it, hear it and feel it: Find out what it takes...
This new exhibition will involve you, enthral you and grip you by highlighting
what gruelling training a Royal Marine goes through. The very latest interactive
displays and hands-on elements will ensure everyone gets a chance to understand
what it takes to be tough enough!
Pay on Admission.
T. 023 9281 9385 or visit www.royalmarinesmuseum.co.uk
Sea Your History: 20th Century Royal
Navy
The Royal Naval Museum
Opens Saturday 26 April
Open daily from 10 am. Last admission 4.45 pm
Sea Your History is a special exhibition focusing on the real experiences of the Navy’s people – in combat and under stress, doing their day-to-day work, at rest and play, at home and abroad, at sea and on land – during a century of almost continuous conflict and rapid technological and social change. The exhibition will include colourful, surprising and often touchingly intimate items of both official and personal material selected from the collections of the Royal Naval Museum, the Fleet Air Arm Museum, the Royal Marines Museum and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum.
The exhibition is part of a larger project to make the Museums’ 20th century collections available to public via a new website, www.seayourhistory.org.uk. Visitors to the exhibition will also have the opportunity to explore this website.
Supported by funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project is a joint effort by the four museums, Portsmouth Royal Dockyard History Trust and the Mary Rose Trust.
FREE with a valid attraction ticket
For more information call 023 9272 7582 or visit www.historicdockyard.co.uk
Seawall Gallery Summer Exhibition
4 Broad Street, Old Portsmouth
Open daily 21 - 29 June 11 am – 6 pm
Fiona Edgley, Jeanette Harding, Jacqui Mair and Jean Flack Munday
These four local artists will exhibit their work with a marine flavour at this gallery at 4 Broad Street on the Millennium Walkway, half way between the Round and Square Towers. Paintings, etchings and photographs are for sale and occasional music will be provided by pianist Dot Buick. Part of the proceedings will go towards Portsmouth Foyer, supporting homeless young people in Portsmouth.
A Study in Sherlock: Uncovering The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Richard
Lancelyn Green Bequest
City Museum and Art Gallery
Monday – Sunday 10 am – 5.30pm
Following the phenomenally successful and hugely popular introductory
Exhibition in summer 2006, work is underway for the challenging task of
creating a fully interactive permanent exhibition of this international
Collection. This will open this summer at Portsmouth City Museum in a
newly refurbished gallery of its own.
The new display will explore further the life of Arthur Conan Doyle and
the creation of Sherlock Holmes. It will feature a range of interactive
displays, a ‘new’ Sherlock Holmes mystery, and narration by
Stephen Fry, the Patron of the Collection. Come and experience the world
of Sherlock Holmes and fine-tune your own powers of detection!
Admission FREE
