INNER AVENUE

02/12/2025

People looking at people looking at art ✨

Kerry James Marshall : 10/10 mate.

01/10/2025

*schoolgirl squeal*

Firstly, 📸🔥

As some of you will know the exhibition last year struck something deep in me, probably rather buried in shame, uncertainty, and wrapped in vulnerability.

I never imagined I'd be in the show the following year, let alone on the exhibition poster.

You can find our stories and photos via my bio, but please do go and visit the show in person.

Starting today until the end of the month, you'll find COLOURISM at:
📍Southampton Central Library
📍Woolston Library
📍Shirley Library
📍MAST Mayflower Studios
📍The Spark, Solent
📍Barton Peveril

DM me if you go, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

22/05/2025

Ever wondered how the podcast actually works?👇 Let me clue you in, compadre!

🔗 First and most importantly, you hit the link in my bio to fill in a short application form

🔍You'll see all the key deets in said form

💌 I'll send you a (very lovely) email to say hi!

📝 We'll collab on some guiding questions for your episode (so we don't get too off track/lost)

🗓️ You'll pick a date and time that works to record (in-person or remotely)

🎧 OPTIONAL but ideally you'll listen to at least a bit of an episode so you know what to except (a surprisingly high % of guests have never listened before recording)

👩‍💻 Around 2 weeks after recording I'll edit and start promoting your episode

🧡 You'll share the love by leaving a bit of feedback/review/donation to help keep INNER AVENUE alive for the next season

FYI - I'm not currently planning Season 04 but you can definitely apply. I'll get back to you when the time comes!

16/03/2025

NEW FORMAT ALERT 💌✍

Did you know you can feature through writing?

This podcast is absolutely NOT about delivering a TEDx level performance, but hey, some people have a preference to partner with the artistic medium of pen and I still want them to have a route for getting involved!

Sending the biggest thank you to busy bee Jack Lewis - Head of Comms at John Hansard Gallery - for crafting the first ever written feature 💥

10/03/2025

Ep04 is LIVE ✨

It was such a pleasure to chat about community, empowering adults to make and create art, finding a sense of home in Southampton, and much more with Vera Chiu the artist!

Vera is an abstract artist, educator, and designer originally from Hong Kong. She shared some brilliant philosophies on how everyone can embrace creativity in everyday life, but I also started to understand why a key part of her work is inviting people to 'take part' through touch. Vera has a gift for following feeling and expressing herself in a way that builds, layer on layer, just like her work.

I highly recommend tuning in and checking out her show 'Two Oceans Apart' this Spring!

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08/03/2025

Thanks to these courageously soft, bravely beautiful, warm and wonder-filled women, I now know what it feels like to be heard and to rhythmically project your voice quite unexpectedly in a room filled mostly by total strangers 😂

A huge thank you to and our Noisy leader, , (and the spirits of the Crawford Room) for creating and holding space for us to explore our voices on and in the build up to 🧡🐧

Check out the video through the GHT Instagram or read about Noisy Joy on inneravenue.co.uk!

02/03/2025

SPOILER ALERT: Today I recorded with Vera Chiu the artist ✨ Episode 04 will come out on March 9 @ 5.30pm - make sure you get these exhibition dates in your diary too!

If you'd like to hear more about our Season 03 guests, join the INNER Circle newsletter here: https://bit.ly/43jqC6f

🌊Two Oceans Apart 此隔彼岸 🛫A sojourn from Hong Kong to Soton

Hong Kong artist, Vera Chiu proudly presents new paintings in her solo exhibition, Two Oceans Apart, at The Dart Centre. In this series, she explores the true meaning of distance. A journey from Hong Kong to Southampton that was set out nearly two years ago, leaving home to discover a dissimilar land. Has it evolved into a settlement, a comfort zone or a changed self?

Through her usual scraps and scratches of abstract paint, she finds herself creating new patterns with fresh materials on blank canvases. The colours of greens and blues illuminate from the surface, creating a shimmering of doubts, happiness and fears. Join Vera on the sojourn to explore the feelings of belonging, identities and emotional rollercoaster in a strangely familiar place.

When 🗓 17th March - 12th April, 2025

Where 📍 The Dart Centre
The Wildern School, Wildern Ln, Hedge End, Southampton SO30 4EJ

Opening Hours 🕰
🏫 Term-Time
Monday – Friday: 2 PM – 9 PM
Saturday: 10 AM – 4PM
Sunday Closed

🐣 Easter Holiday
Monday - Friday 2 PM – 7 PM
Saturday 10AM - 1PM
Sunday Closed

* Free admission
** Free parking subject to availability

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