Thursday 2nd October
Doors 6.30pm artist talks from 7pm
Jeannie Driver | Olana Light | Rachel Johnston
20×20 artist talks return on October 2nd featuring three established Art Space Portsmouth studio holders who practice internationally.
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Jeannie Driver is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portsmouth, UK, whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, installation, and video. Rooted in process and material exploration, her work investigates perception, repetition, and spatial tension. She holds a BA and MA (Distinction) from the University of Portsmouth.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with exhibitions including Degrees of Ambiguity (CourtX); Edge to Edge (Cello Factory); Iterations (Art House 1, London); FOUND (Woolff Gallery, London); Cyclical Drift (COS); When Contents Become Form (Arbyte Gallery, London); The Unstable Line (Air Gallery, Manchester); Dazzle & Disrupt (West Gallery, IOW); and Ubiquitous Materials (South Hill Park).
Her recent large-scale installation, Light Embrace, developed for We Shine Portsmouth, is an immersive, participatory work inviting audiences to engage with light and space.
jeanniedriver.com | @jeanniedriverartist
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Olana Light is a multidisciplinary artist and active studio member at Art Space Portsmouth. She has an MA from Goldsmiths (2020) and a BA from Southampton Solent University (2017). Her work has earned numerous awards, including the Every Breath We Take Award (2024), multiple Arts Council England grants, and the CAS Emerging Sculptors Award (2023).
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo shows in Southampton and London. Olana has completed residencies in Greece, Tenerife, and the UK, and has been featured in publications such as Ludvig Rage, Inside Artist, and Trebuchet. She has also been shortlisted for over a dozen prestigious art prizes.
olanalight.com | @olanalight
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Rachel Johnston is an artist with a long-standing interest in participatory art and the value of making. She studied Painting at Norwich School of Art and Fine Art Tapestry at the Royal College of Art. Her practice explores narrative, place, and personal history using textile process; studio work focuses on the creation wearable objects and woven or stitched wall-based sculptural pieces.
She has worked with schools, hospitals, and public art organisations, including the Mappa partnership and has a particular interest in the connections between art, making and mental health, coordinating the Vawdrey Archive Project with Outside In. Rachel taught Fine Art at the University of Chichester (1999–2022) and is a trustee at Art Space Portsmouth.
racheljohnstonart.com | @rachel_johnston_art