The Bears is a body of work that explores the intense physical and emotional bonds formed inside a women's rugby team (*Brown)Through an immersive installation, the artist invites you to physically weave through the artwork—mirroring the entanglement and fluidity of the game and players.
More than just a game, the work is a celebration of strength, vulnerability, and the profound sense of belonging this community creates. It challenges stereotypes on how we perform our identities and navigate highly gendered spaces.
This multimodal exhibition transformed static images into immersive experiences, inviting viewers to engage with illustration in dynamic, sensory-rich ways. By layering animation and audio onto hand-rendered work, the exhibition bridged traditional techniques with contemporary digital processes, highlighting how illustration can evolve through technology while retaining its narrative and visual integrity, and engaging more than the eye with immersive and involving experiences.
This multi-media exhibition featured a range of arts-based tools that were developed for the Tupumue, non-communicable lung disease study in Nairobi, Kenya. These works were employed to engage and educate the local community about lung health. The exibition feartures film footage of the theater ‘Billy’s Day Out’, music videos, photographs of murals, puppets, paintings, sculpture and reportage drawings by Louis Netter.
This collaborative project explores how drawing, printing, binding and display can operate as entwined methods of research. At the centre of the work is an inquiry into materiality, constraint and narrative. How does a book's structure - its folds, bindings, layers and mechanisms - shape the ideas it carries? What new possibilities surface when illustrators adopt or rework book-arts methods?
Re‑imagining the interior: Materail intra-actions unfolds over seven weeks as a live, research‑led exhibition that reconsiders what it means to draw—and therefore produce—an interior. Building on the Interior Architecture Research Group’s ongoing investigations into drawing as a critical and situated practice, the exhibition asks: What constitutes an interior drawing? When does a drawing become ‘interior’? And how might rethinking drawing reshape the ways interiors come into being?
We are now inviting applications for The Reflectory 2026 -2027.
This space is intended to showcase the breadth and depth of research taking place across our community, featuring rotating exhibits that highlight innovative projects, impactful collaborations, and creative approaches to research across all disciplines.
Whether your research lends itself to visual representation, multimedia, narrative, or interactive formats, we encourage you to consider how your work could be translated into an engaging and accessible public exhibit.
To apply, please email cci-ri@port.ac.uk. If you would like to discuss a proposal before submitting please contact penny.chalk@port.ac.uk