Havant Arts Centre

Janice Thwaites & Tim Collard
Hot Air
3 June – 30 Jul
Hot Air is part of a piece of work called ‘A Place
to Pray — A Place to Play’. An exhibition which
explores the sense of space and place.
A chance to be still, to think, or to explore the
feeling within us which gives us permission to play.
Enlarged photographs and an inflatable installation.

Jo Tester
27 June – 28 Aug
Four Seasons in One Month
An exhibition exploring climate change in small
details of nature on the edges of suburbia. On a
daily journey, minute changes are recorded
using an extensive colour palate in mixed media.

Celebrate 30
By Jules & Tim Simmons
2 Aug – 30 Aug
Havant Arts Centre Celebrates its 30th Birthday with a gallery exhibition of site spe-cific work by local artist and resident art tutor Jules Simmons.Take a step back in time with this ambitious 70’s Pop Art exhibition with a twist. Jules will involve the key groups and personalities who have led the way at Havant Arts Centre over the last 30 years. Make your mark on the Time Line Wall by adding your personal dates and memories.

Mango Gallery
One Lump or Two
By Claire Callanan BA & Lyn Unsworth BA
Aug 08 to Jan 09
Exploring the social niceties of a very British ritual. Tea drinking provides the gender neutral social glue which bridges every embarrassing silence or difficult conversa-tion. A quirky take on chintz, china and chatter.

Literary Festival
3 Sep – 27 Sep
Havant’s first Literary Festival is celebrated in the Sadler and Theatre Galleries with five exciting exhibitions.

Poetry Trail
Join the ranks of all those fictional detectives and hunt down all of the 15 Poems written by local writers, secreted in the nooks and crannies of the Arts Centre.

Jules Simmons
Jules explores the relationships of artist performer and audience.
Celebrating the thrill of live performance and the history of literature, she com-ments on how the purely fictional written word influences real events that shape our world.

Jane Kilford BA
Connections with people, places and objects.
In contrast, disconnection, obscurity or misconception.
Collected paper, word games, discarded haberdashery and ephemera are com-bined with dialogue, lyrics and literature to produce obscure instructions. Delicately disconcerting work.

Message in a Bottle
By Kate Saunders BA
An installation updating Robin Crusoe’s message in a bottle to a world of setting messages adrift on the virtual waves of the internet and mobile phone networks.

Stories Make Pictures
A body of work made in collaboration with children from Warren Park School and artist Jo Tester.

Harbour Perspective
By Grantly Lynch
1 Oct - 25 Oct
A very different take on the local seascape.
Employing different photographic techniques, Grantly shows three collections of work. Monochrome landscapes, over exposed impressions and graphic details of coastal erosion.Inspired by Chichester Harbour, Grantly re-presents a local land-scape to those most familiar with it. Through a shift in perspective he unashamedly celebrates our local coastline as a visually rich area of outstanding natural beauty.

1st June - 30th June
Pachamama” means “Mother Earth” in a language called Quechua, spoken in the Peruvian Andes.

In this increasingly modern and technical world, buying from Ceramics Pachamama will contribute to keep alive this beautiful artwork. Simultaneously, the continued creation of this work is the only way for the village- where everyone only makes ceramics- to survive against very powerful foreign interests in the area.

www.ceramicspachamama.co.uk

Rob French
1 Oct – 25 Oct
Sculptural works representing an attempt to use the visual vocabulary of the engi-neered or mechanical. Structures are used to demonstrate forces, and to provide a platform for kinetic mechanisms using magnetism, solar energy and gravity.

Tom Bennett
29 Oct – 29 Nov
Automata, a kinetic form of art sculpture. Tom’s work aims to delight, challenge, and encourage the physical engagement of the viewer.

Annabel Munn
29 Oct – 29 Nov
Interrupting a deepest moment of thought. Annabel’s paintings aim to capture the moment of interruption, placing the viewer in the space occupied by the inter-rupter, in the moment of transition between absorbed contemplation and conver-sation. She invites you to translate the paintings in your own way.