Local resident and photographer John Callaway gives us a glimpse into the surreal world of My Dog Sighs’ art exhibition ‘Inside’. For the past ten years or so, like many other Portsmouth residents, I’ve happened upon the work [… read more ]
Like many other arts organisations around Britain, Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery is adapting to the unparalleled new landscape that COVID-19 has shaped. S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes discusses sustainability, new tech solutions and the changing role [… read more ]
Tom Benjamin talks about Quarantine Zine, a world wide collaborative magazine created to bring creatives together so that they can express their feelings and frustrations during quarantine. During this unusual time photography has been a welcome distraction, even though [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon welcome Geoff Priestley, General Manager of The Wedgewood Rooms and Richard Stride, founder of Groundlings Theatre Company, [… read more ]
‘This work is a spontaneous response to missing the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition at Tate Britain due to the dreadful pandemic.’ Trudy Barber Star & Crescent is Portsmouth’s only independent community news outlet. We don’t [… read more ]
S&C’s newest team member and Contributing Editor, Esti Chivite, describes her experience of the recent launch of a local arts project and a pleasant, if unexpected, surprise. When my editor Tom Sykes emailed me asking [… read more ]
It’s late afternoon, summer light fills Portsmouth Cathedral, choral song sounds through the air and the Portsmouth and Hampshire Art Society’s (PHAS) annual exhibition is in full swing. Lucy Brown reports on this enchanting and [… read more ]
Inspired by Dadaism, Jazz LP cover designs and the fiction of JG Ballard, Samuel H James (higgy_) talks us through some of his surrealistic ‘digi-collages’. ‘Cogs & Flues, Ostrich’ This piece has a vibrant [… read more ]
By John Pearson On used scraps of board, paint brush strokes made their mark – the silent aftermath of a city scarred, blitzed, battered and burned; rubble piled high in streets, glass splinters, heaps [… read more ]
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