Urban Sketchers Southampton draw on 50th Anniversary of the City for exhibition
Southampton Solent University is sponsoring an exhibition in the Southampton City Art Gallery Foyer. The exhibition features work by the Urban Sketchers Southampton Group which has been created in celebration of the City’s 50thAnniversary. It opens on Saturday 28 March and will be on display until 13 June 2015.
Peter Lloyd, Head of the School of Art and Design at Southampton Solent says: “As a University we are delighted to support this project which is enabling local people to make their own contribution to the celebrations through art. Peter Jarvis, Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Illustration has given a lot of time to this project, particularly in helping put the exhibition together and one of our students, Barns Furr, has designed a poster.”
The Urban Sketchers Southampton Group was set up in February 2014, on a volunteer not for profit basis, to enable local people to contribute to the City celebrations. They sketch on location the people, places and buildings that make the City of Southampton such an interesting and distinctive place to live and work and, at the same time, encourage people to take pride in their city and celebrate its unique maritime cityscape.
The group meets once a month, generally on a Saturday morning, for a ‘sketch crawl’ and they are joined occasionally by urban sketchers from other cities and countries.
Although meetings usually comprise between 10 and 20 individuals, there are now more than 160 members from all over the world connected through the group’s Facebook site and new members are always welcome. For further information, or to connect, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/usk.southampton.
Southampton City Art Gallery is open Monday to Friday 10am to 3pm and on Saturdays 10am to 5pm.
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About Southampton Solent University
Southampton Solent University offers more than 23,000 students over 200 qualifications ranging from HND to PhD, in subjects such as maritime education and training, fashion and design, media and television, music, health, sport and leisure, business, IT and technology. The University was awarded the 2013 Quality Assurance kitemark for quality and standards of teaching and learning. Solent was voted one of the most creative universities in the UK in a Which? University 2014 poll of students. Solent Business School has been awarded the Small Business Charter Award, which is supported by the Association of Business Schools and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and ‘gold approval’ by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
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