Friday 13th November, 11am–6pm
Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th November, 11am–4pm
Join us at for our POP UP Christmas Shop, as we transform our gallery into a lively, eclectic shop celebrating the creativity of our artist members.
Discover a diverse selection of original artworks and art merchandise, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, photography, prints and cards. With work by local artists spanning a range of styles, materials and prices, there’s something to suit every taste and budget.
Whether you’re looking for a distinctive Christmas gift, an original piece of art to enjoy at home, or a little treat for yourself, come along and explore the collection. From small, affordable gifts to unique original artworks, you’ll find plenty of alternatives to the high street.
Every purchase makes a difference. Buying art is a wonderful way to support living artists, helping them sustain their creative practice and contribute towards the costs of maintaining their studios. In addition, 20% of all sales will go towards raising much-needed funds for Art Space Portsmouth, helping us continue to support local artists and provide opportunities for creativity and artistic exchange in the city.
Come along, browse, discover new artists and find something unexpected this Christmas!
Art Space Portsmouth
Supporting living artists. Sustaining creative spaces. Sharing creativity.
** Please note: Card payments only.
20x20 Artist Talks
Thursday 29th October
Doors 6.30 for 7pm start
Please come and join us to hear Heinrich & Palmer, Belinda Mitchell and Stephen Cooper talk about their practice and research on Thursday 29th October.
We open at 6.30pm to socialise and have a drink for a 7pm start. It will finish by approx 9pm. Each artist will use the Pecha Kucha format of 20 images for 20 seconds each, giving us scope to take in their practice/research and leave time at the end for questions and points of discussion.
Heinrich & Palmer
Anna Heinrich & Leon Palmer’s long-standing collaborative, multi-disciplinary practice encompasses installations, large scale projection events, films, photography and soundscapes. Their work reflects a fascination between the augmentation of real and virtual objects and spaces. Many of their projects are developed in response to site and community through research, engagement and collaboration with others. They are often installed in non-gallery environments and explore themes of memory, place, natural phenomena and deep time.
@heinrichandpalmer
Belinda Mitchell
Belinda Mitchell is a visual artist whose practice reconsiders how interiors are represented and experienced through embodied approaches and digital technologies, informed by New Materialist thought. Recently in collaboration with Stephen Cooper, she explored the intersections of architecture and fine art, combining architectural drawing with artistic experimentation to develop alternative ways of imagining, representing and producing space.
@bin45c
Stephen Cooper
Stephen Cooper is an artist whose practice explores the intersections of painting, sculpture, architecture and site-specific installation. Working across materials and spatial forms, he investigates how we perceive and experience environments, drawing attention to the relationships between physical space, memory and consciousness. His work challenges the boundaries between artwork and architectural setting, inviting new ways of understanding how spaces are constructed, inhabited and experienced. @stephencooper5999
20th November - 4th December 2026
Open: 10am–3pm
Private View: Saturday 21st November, 5–8pm
Join us for the opening of Between Land and Tide, an exhibition by ASP artist Olana Light showcasing a public art project that explores the relationship between the human body, the sea and the natural world.
Through photography, wearable sculpture and film, the exhibition brings together the visual world of the project and documents its journey across Portsmouth. During August and September, five live performances took place in public spaces across the city, including Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Victoria Park, Southsea Beach, Hotwalls Beach and Palmerston Road. The exhibition brings together photographic and film documentation of these performances, alongside sculptural works, offering a closer look at the sea-born female guardians, the monumental starfish sculpture made from natural and sustainable materials, and the live encounters that brought these forms into Portsmouth’s coastal and urban landscapes.
Inspired by the sea, tidal ecosystems and Portsmouth’s coastline, Between Land and Tide explores themes of connection, environmental fragility and our relationship with the ocean. The work invites us to look at our surroundings differently, reflect on the vulnerability of marine environments, and consider our place within the natural world.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to experience the project beyond the live performances, bringing together its sculptural forms, photographic images and moving images in one space, preserving the traces of these encounters between art, people and the coastal environment.