Portsmouth is synonymous with ‘the Senior Service’ and home to at least five museums dedicated to the Royal Navy and all things nautically linked. Happily for the culture-loving landlubbers, it is also home to a good selection of art galleries including the Aspex Gallery under the Aspex Visual Arts Trust. The Aspex Gallery has been serving the local area since 1981 and the early work of many established British and international artists has been shown here since the gallery’s opening.
It also dedicates a small exhibition and project space to the development of local artists based in the Portsmouth and South East region and has a full and varied programme of education activities including the free of charge ‘gallery talks’, links with local schools and the excellent, and reasonably priced, Arts Clubs for young people.
