Applications for The Windbreaks exhibition 2026/2027 is now open! The deadline is Sunday 15th November! The Windbreaks is a Portsmouth City Council project providing new opportunities for the local arts community to exhibit their work in the public realm. Five double sided windbreak panels offer space to display ten large-scale artworks, creating an outdoor gallery
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Between Land and Tideby Olana Light 📆 Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 🕗 11am – 4pm Live performance on Sunday 6th at 12pm 📍The Round Tower, Hotwalls Studios, PO1 2FS Between Land and Tide is a public art project bringing sculpture, performance, and community participation to spaces across Portsmouth.Inspired by the sea, tidal ecosystems,
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Come along to the first ever Pink Sofa Collective exhibition featuring artist’s work in ‘the space between’, exploring the spaces between people, or places and things and transforming The Round Tower into a unique art show. 📆 Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th September 🕗 Sat: 10am-5pm Sun: 10am-4pm 📍The Round Tower, Hotwalls Studios, PO1 2FS
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Artists Camille Bach and Stephanie Morgan have been chosen to exhibit their work at the gallery space on the promenade near Speakers’ Corner for the next four months. Their work explores light, water and the coastal environment through contrasting styles. Camille’s expressive oil paintings capture the changing beauty of seascapes and skies, while Stephanie’s abstract
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Along with the newly opened up promenade there’s another great reason to head down to Southsea seafront. At the start of April some beautiful artwork by Sarah Muwanga and Hollie Foskett was installed at The Windbreaks to be displayed for the next four months. The Windbreaks is a permanent art display of ten A0 panels
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Some wonderful news for Hotwalls Studios 1 artist Karen Gorman whose work ‘American Staple’ has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2026 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. For over 200 years the Summer Exhibition has been one of the most respected and contested open calls in the contemporary art world. Each year a theme
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Joseph Loughborough’s works to be displayed at The Windbreaks from December 2025 to March 2026. The popular gallery on the promenade near the skateboarding area known as The Red offers local artists the opportunity to have work displayed temporarily as part of Portsmouth City Council’s seafront arts programme. Joseph was a local painter who died
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Wonderful news from Karen of Studio Rumu who has had several pieces selected for exhibition this summer. This is a remarkable achievement and recognition for Karen who has been diligently creating unique and colourful needle felting pieces from her Hotwalls Studio. ‘Jar of Fluff’ will be exhibited in the prestigious Quay Arts Biennial exhibition which
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The new art installation on Southsea seafront has been refreshed with photography by two local artists Olana Light and Maria de la O Garrido. For this second wave of artists to have their work featured in this public art gallery space, the curatorial team chose two photographic-based artists whose work really complements each other. On
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Emily Faludy is a Portsmouth-based artist who paints from life in an energised, expressive way, in impasto oil paint. Emily is interested in both the raw energy gained from being in front of the subject matter, and the physicality of the paint, which becomes almost a subject in itself. Emily is influenced by artists such
