- Venue
- Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library, University of Southampton
- Starts
- Monday, August 4, 2008
- Ends
- Friday, October 3, 2008
- Address
- Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton. SO17 1BJ
- Location
- South East England
ASPECTS of local life are explored in a major exhibition of work by Southampton based artists in the city this year. The collection features subjects as diverse as TV funny man Benny Hill’s influence on his home town, to intrepid aviator Amelia Earhart’s visit to Woolston, to Henry V’s historic departure for France for the battle of Agincourt. And bringing the show right up-to-date are more contemporary images showing trees under threat from modern developments and containers at Southampton docks. The exhibition entitled 'Made in Southampton,' runs from August 4th to October 3rd at the Level 4 Gallery of the Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ and is open from 9am – 9pm Monday to Saturday. The collection has been put together by city based fine art print workshop Red Hot Press, which was founded in 2004 by local artists Sarah Mander and Katherine Anteney. All of the images on display feature in a box set of original prints accompanying the exhibition that will be on sale to the public. The Preface to the box set is written by Philip Hoare, author of books about Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde and recent work about Netley’s Royal Victoria Military Hospital, ‘Spike Island’.
