4th June 2026
Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start
Admission Free
Come and join us to hear Jane Shepherd, Vicky Smith and Patti Gaal-Holmes talk about their work in this PAX (Portsmouth Analogue X-periments) takeover event. The usual Pecha Kucha format of 20 images for 20 seconds each will be subverted and transformed by the inclusion of analogue media like 35mm slides and Super8 /16mm films.
We open at 6.30pm to socialise and have a drink for a 7pm start. Each presentation gives us scope to take in each artist’s practice/research with time for questions and points of discussion. We will finish by approx. 9pm.
Jane Shepherd is a Southsea and Ryde-based designer, writer and artist. Her current practice is centred on the autobiographical, using archives to explore the fragmentary nature of memory and memoir. As a long-term survivor of HIV, her interest is in how we construct personal experience narratives in the face of stigma and/or illness.
www.janeshepherd.com
Vicky Smith is an artist, researcher and educator. She has worked with analog film for over 30 years and she considers the materiality of film to best express ideas around the body, physicality and issues of exposure . Her methods include animation and hand processing. For 10 years, she worked directly onto the film strip by marking and describing it with traces of the body. More recently she worked only with the Bolex 16mm film camera. Currently, she is finding ways to combine the earlier direct filmmaking with in camera filmmaking. For this presentation, she will share her methods for problem-solving these approaches.
https://vickysmith.blog/
Patti Gaal-Holmes is an artist/filmmaker and historian who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to German and Hungarian immigrants. Her cross-disciplinary practice includes working with film, photography, artists’ bookmaking and writing. She has a particular love of working with analogue processes whereby the alchemy of the darkroom and hands-on approaches to making inform relationships between content and film materiality. She will be digging into her archive to present some Super8 and 16mm films.
www.pattigaalholmes.com