THE ROUND TOWER

It's not long now until Old Portsmouth's Round Tower is launched as a gallery space with an exhibition on the theme of ‘Strong Island’.
‘Strong Island’is a local website created and managed by Paul Gonella and Tristan Savage designed to promote, showcase and inform people about Portsmouth and Southsea’s scene.
Over 30 local creatives have been invited to participate in the exhibition and you can see who they are and follow the progress of preparing for opening night at www.theroundtower.co.uk.  Paul Gonella is also making a documentary of the preparations which will be made available to view on the website. The image shown is a recent photograph of the Round Tower by Jon Snape, using his Medium format Mamiya and hand printed in his kitchen darkroom. Jon is hoping to produce some solar plates especially for the strong-island exhibition.
The local printmaking studio, Badger Press, will also be participating in the exhibition and there is still time for their artists to submit work to be sold in the shop.  Full details can be found here.


Launch Night: Friday 15 April, 6pm
Open to the Public 16 April to 1 May.  Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 3pm.