Abstract
As part of Heritage Open Days 2025 you are invited to attend an exhibition that reimagines the City of Portsmouth as a storied landscape, showcasing the spatial storytelling (drawing/ maps and projections) of Tina Bird Wallbridge and Nicola Crowson
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. It offers a unique chance to see Store House 9 in a new light and to reflect on how spatial storytelling can deepen our connection to place.
@constellation_ofstories
Nicola Crowson @all_a_storm_in_a_teacup
Tina Bird Wallbridge @TinaWallbridge
Heritage Hub, University of Portsmouth @heritagehub_uop
Portsmouth Historic Quarter @portsmouth.historic.quarter
Architecture courses at Portsmouth @uop_architecture
Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries @uniportsmouthcci
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. It offers a unique chance to see Store House 9 in a new light and to reflect on how spatial storytelling can deepen our connection to place.
@constellation_ofstories
Nicola Crowson @all_a_storm_in_a_teacup
Tina Bird Wallbridge @TinaWallbridge
Heritage Hub, University of Portsmouth @heritagehub_uop
Portsmouth Historic Quarter @portsmouth.historic.quarter
Architecture courses at Portsmouth @uop_architecture
Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries @uniportsmouthcci
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Storehouse 9 |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Sept 2025 |
| Event | Site Lines and Motifs - Storehouse 9, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Sept 2025 → 20 Sept 2025 |
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