As part of Portsmouth Creates’ We Shine Festival taking place across the city, join us for a special edition of Friday Late, a late-night social event offering the chance to enjoy art after dark and shed light to untold histories through projections, live art, workshops and exhibitions.

Explore captivating contemporary art on display in the Main Gallery, Craft Space, and Communal Space, while engaging with Portsmouth’s vibrant artistic community. Artist-in-Residence Anna Marris will host a drop-in workshop inspired by her exploration of Portsmouth’s coastline and the ocean’s role in climate regulation. Local artist Roy Hanney, along with the one000plateaus collective, will provide live visuals accompanied by a DJ set. Current exhibiting artist Prajvi Mandhani, featured in COLONY, will also present mesmerising projections inspired by the festival.

With the bar open for drinks and refreshments throughout the evening, it’s the perfect opportunity to bring friends, make new connections, and be inspired in one of Portsmouth’s most celebrated arts spaces.

Tickets are pay what you can, book yours now via Eventbrite

What’s On?

Lynne Williams will be sharing a live performance piece ‘Only Human Too’. ‘Only Human Too’ (2023) is a performance work for three in hybrid apron-fairy-straitjackets, stitched and woven from assorted white fabric remnants. Referencing the tiny water hydra’s flexibility and ability to endlessly reorganise, heal and renew, it’s an elastic-fantastic human embodiment – shapeshifting through unity and division, cooperation and conflict, in a quest for ongoingness.

Prajvi Mandhani will be showing a series of projections, reflecting her video piece ‘An Entangled Flow’ that explores ideas of boundaries and control, currently on show in COLONY.

Join Artist-in-Residence, Anna Marris, in creating a series of imaginative maps to creatively capture the relationships between Portsmouth’s coastline and a major ocean flow called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This workshop will shed light to these concerns through traditional engraving and intaglio printing techniques using recyclable Tetra Pak plates to interpret the AMOC’s behaviours alongside representations of Portsmouth’s dynamic landscape and society.

VJ Collective one000plateaus and local artist Roy Hanney will be sharing live visuals throughout the night, transforming the communal space into a moveable feast, alongside music from DJ Chique (@loverr_of_u) .

As always the aspex bar will be open all night, keeping the drinks flowing!