Last year’s standout installation, Sonar for the Soul , took place inside the Round Tower—a 15th-century artillery fort at the mouth of the harbour. Artist Lorna Haines filled the cold, echoing chamber with hydrophones recording the Solent’s seabed, layered over a choir singing sea shanties in reverse. The effect was disorienting, eerie, and utterly specific to that location.
But for one week every autumn, the clang of the dockyard fades into a different kind of rhythm. The Portsmouth Arts Festival (PAF) transforms the UK’s only island city into a sprawling, democratic gallery—one where the art doesn’t just hang in a hall, but seeps out of decommissioned gunpowder stores, pub back rooms, and the plate-glass windows of empty commercial units. portsmouth arts festival
PORTSMOUTH, UK – For decades, the tourist narrative of Portsmouth has been written in salt spray and steel. Visitors come for the Mary Rose , for Nelson’s Victory , and for the stoic silhouette of the Spinnaker Tower. It is a city of maritime heritage, naval might, and hard-working pragmatism. Last year’s standout installation, Sonar for the Soul
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