An exciting exhibition space
The Library is one of the busiest venues of campus and your display will enjoy attractive natural lighting and a high footfall of visitors. Any student, staff member or person associated with the University can display their work. If you are thinking about putting together a display we would love to hear from you, so please get in touch.
Details and dimensions of our display boards and cabinets are available as a downloadable pdf guide.
Follow the links below for photographs of recent displays. Older exhibitions can be found in our archives.
Display your passion
Do you have photographs, art, poster displays or hobby crafts you would like to exhibit? We are always on the lookout for new displays and exhibits - anything with a visual appeal that you feel passionately about or think might interest or educate other people.
Our friendly Promotions Team are delighted to help staff, students, and visiting exhibitors plan and realise displays and promote them to attract as large an audience as possible.
Latest exhibitions
Perspective Over Perception
South African Coltart Sithole (col_shots) presents his latest solo photographic exhibition, exploring and challenging perceptions of South African life and culture.
Walk the Library corridors, pause beneath each print, and test your own sight lines: can you trade the neat safety of perception for the restless gift of perspective?
Perspective Over Perception - an introduction from the artist
An introduction from Coltart Sithole ( @col_shots ) to his latest photographic exhibition exploring the perception and representation of African life and cultures - showing in the University Library from 1 August 2025.
I'm Coltart Sithole, also known as col_shots. I'm a South African visual artist.
I'm doing an exhibition at the University of Portsmouth Library. The exhibition will be running from the 1st of August until the 31st of October. It is titled "Perspective Over Perception".
The exhibition basically entails and tries to change the perceptions that people have about African culture and African lifestyles more from the work that I've done in southern Africa in the countries of Botswana, Namibia, Misu to South Africa itself.