Exhibition Description:
Site Lines and Motifs is a public exhibition that invites visitors to explore the city of Portsmouth through a new lens—one shaped by memory, narrative, and place. For a limited time, the ground floor of Store House 9 will be open to the public, transformed into an immersive space of drawings, maps, and projections that uncover the hidden stories of the city.
Created by Nicola Crowson and Tina Bird Wallbridge, this body of work reimagines Portsmouth as a storied landscape where personal memories and collective histories are spatialized through experimental cartography and architectural drawing. The exhibition challenges dominant narratives of the city’s defensive naval past by highlighting its overlooked, feminine, and everyday spaces.
Suspended fabric panels and narrative projections form the heart of the installation, inviting visitors to move through a visual and spatial journey.
Emerging from the research project Atlas of Island Cities, this exhibition is not only an artistic exploration but a call to consider how we understand and shape the future of our urban environments.
An exhibition of drawings and maps created by Nicola Crowson (Profile) and Tina Bird Wallbridge (Profile ) Of The School of Architecture, Art & Design, University of Portsmouth, UK
