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Venues
John Hansard Gallery
University of Southampton, Highfield, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
Reviews
"!" (Hollywood Blues). A spoken choir performance by Rowena Easton. [7 November 2012]
“Oh my God!” “Don’t you dare lower your voice to me!” “If we fail the earth will die!” The voices of seven actors pitch 45 minutes of high-tempo narrative fragments from Hollywood disaster Read on…
John Hansard Gallery Central, Southampton
31 October 2012
Reviewed by: Dany Louise »
That Oceanic Feeling [22 October 2012]
Presenting works created during Rona Lee's residency at Southampton's National Oceanography Centre, That Oceanic Feeling explores our relationship with the ocean, in particular its deepest regions, which are home to some of the most inaccessible Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
28 August - 13 October 2012
Reviewed by: Trevor Smith »
Quarantania [8 June 2012]
The artist Louise Bourgeois once described Quarantania, a group of elongated bronze sculptures, as “growing from the duel between the isolated individual and the shared awareness of the group”. Alas, Quarantania also happens to be the Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, SOUTHAMPTON
24 April 2012 to 9 June 2012
Reviewed by: Maru Rojas Cuahonte »
Nature Abhors a Vacuum [28 July 2011]
Jane and Louise Wilson - Nature Abhors a Vacuum Hansard Gallery, Southampton. A review by Dr Stephen Riley The main and newest work in this show is a set of photographs taken in Pripyat, a town a short distance from the Chernobyl Read on…
Hansard Gallery, Southampton
16 July - 10 September 2011
Reviewed by: Stephen Riley »
Anarcadia [28 January 2011]
Ruth Maclennan's Anarcadia at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton is a fine example of a choreographed, chiselled piece which looks at the aesthetics of landscape by isolating it from its context, and then re-suggesting it in all its elements as Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
9 November 2010 to 10 January 2011
Reviewed by: Emilia Telese »
Dawnbreakers [19 August 2010]
'Dawnbreakers' is an exhibition inspired by transition in relation to irreverent fear, transition in light of technological advance, and a particular emphasis on transition from one era or mindset to another Although intellectually rigorous, Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 27 April - 19 June
Reviewed by: Peter Bonnell »
Inside Me [2 April 2010]
Helena Almeida's presence through her work in the John Hansard gallery is a rare treat for this area. A 'lens based artist', she refuses to be catagorised but draws into her work elements of performance, photography and painting while, with an Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
7 February - 1 April 2010
Reviewed by: Susan Francis »
Shona Illingworth: Balnakiel [4 March 2009]
Judging by the meticulously crafted images filmmaker and sound artist Shona Illingworth has recorded for Balnakiel, 2008, her subject is a place easily etched in memory. The understanding and interpretation of collective memory forms the central Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
17 February – 4 April
Reviewed by: Peter Bonnell »
Ergin Çavusoglu: Point of Departure [31 May 2006]
(Insert artists correct name in first proof _ KB doesn't like it)It is a cliché of current times that ‘we are all members of a diaspora now’. Whether that stands close scrutiny is debatable. However, as the skies are criss-crossed Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
4 May – 17 June
Reviewed by: Stephen Riley »
King Tat [9 December 2005]
King Tat is a newly commissioned installation by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. Even before arriving at the gallery, one question arises: who was King Tat? Is he a composite of peoples, of people who the Read on…
John Hansard Gallery
12 December 2005 to 1 January 2006
Reviewed by: Peter Bonnell »
New British Painting: Part 1 [19 February 2004]
The latest exhibition at the recently refurbished John Hansard Gallery is the first of a two-part series "which celebrate[s] contemporary painting' a snapshot of current practice amongst a younger generation of artists, all of whom have trained and Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2 December – 31 January
Reviewed by: Steve McDade »
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