We Shine Portsmouth 2022

The Scavenger hunt is on! 

Based at 3 locations; Victoria Park, St. Mary's Church and Mountbatten Centre, each part of the hunt features 11 or 12 individually illustrated animals. These COME TO LIFE when you view them using Artivive app, with animations, film and sound.

You can follow a trail with clues to each artwork showing on the digital layer of the one before in the trail. Or you can see the map* for the locations

If you view this image using Artivive it'll reveal the map.

A big thank you to everyone working on this event, and to our artists particularly whose work is featured

Meet the artists and their work HERE 

We Shine Festival 2022

We are looking forward to We Shine Festival 2022, and thrilled to be creating an Augmented Reality Illustrated Animal trail. We will be showcasing our students' work, university staff work and work from a range of artists, designers and illustrators. 

Animal illustrations will be found around Portsmouth which, when viewed through a smartphone, will come to life with a digitally augmented layer.

See We Shine Festival for more info.

We Shine 17 - 19 November 2022

Call for contributions

Illustrated Menagerie AR exhibition

Calling all artists, animators and illustrators interested in nature, animals and the environment.

We will be hosting an augmented art exhibition, in the guise of a scavenger hunt, as part of We Shine Festival 2022.  https://www.weshineportsmouth.co.uk/ 

The festival will take place November 17 - 20th and we will be providing one of the interactive installations.

We are keen to hear from artists interested to take part with moving imagery, or sequential imagery, with or without sound, which would be seen as a digital augmented overlay when viewing a still image of the work using an app.

We will be handling printing of the material work (so you won’t need to send anything by post!) as the 3 locations for the exhibited work will be outdoors around Portsmouth. Work will be fully credited and linked to you online.

Register your interest by email to

nicola.hay@port.ac.uk

Shakespeare's Animals - At the Guildhall, Portsmouth 2016

Shakespeare's Animals Exhibition

We are very excited to have now installed a new group exhibition piece for Shakespeare's Animals, part of the upcoming Much Ado about Portsmouth Festival (maap.port.ac.uk) marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

The work is a large scale group student piece and depicts some of the (over 4000!) animals which Shakespeare alluded to in his writings and will be gracing one wall of the Portsmouth Guildhall's Freda Swain room from now until 7th June 2016. During that time, Portsmouth Cultural Trust tells us, thousands of visitors will be able to see and read about the work and the students, and we hope, through coming to this blog, be able to give us feedback too. We think the diversity and talent of our first year students is well represented in this group show, as well as the explorative and questioning approach to illustration which is central to the BA (Hons) Illustration course here at Portsmouth.

We will also have the chance to celebrate with an opening event on Friday April 22nd at 6pm - 7.45 in the Guildhall, Freda Swain room. Please let us know if you'd like to come along!

Much Ado!

The Illustrated Menagerie is now dipping its toes into the writings of Shakespeare for inspiration to work with, as part of the upcoming Much Ado About Portsmouth Festival (see maap.port.ac.uk for more details)

Portsmouth-based festival events marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. The festival will run from the 18th to the 23rd April 2016 (culminating on the day of Shakespeare's death).

Illustrated Menagerie Exhibition

Interview with the University News.

Watch an interview with three final year students exhibiting in the Menagerie. 

Illustrated Menagerie Exhibition

The posters and leaflets for the exhibition have been designed and produced by our final year students Dale Silvester, Paige Jones and Ollie Tubb and hand screen printed in the print workshop. Big thanks to all of you involved and for your highly professional approach.

Meet all the artists involved in the exhibition at this Friday's opening event in Space gallery - Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth PO1 2DJ

See more of the event and reserve a place here;

Call for Submissions - Illustrated Menagerie Exhibition

We would like to invite you to submit artwork for our upcoming exhibition: 'Illustrated Menagerie’. The Illustrated Menagerie project itself  is coming up to its 5th birthday now and will be holding an exhibition of Illustrated Menagerie works, to which we would like to invite you to submit some work. Deadline for submission is Monday 15th December.

If you would be interested in this please find the exhibition brief and all relevant details. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!