Literary Art
Workshop: GHT Creative Writing Group with Liz Amos
Led by Liz Amos, the GHT Creative Writing Group offers a series of free writing workshops using our contemporary art programme as the stimulus for creativity. This workshop will focus on Alistair Debling’s commission, RAFTS. Beginners welcome!
Liz Amos is a Hampshire-based author and poet. Her poetry has featured in event collaborations with John Hansard Gallery, ArtfulScribe, Music in the City and Placeholder Poetry, and is published by Writing Our Legacy (Covert Issue 5) and Nine Arches Press (upcoming). Her debut novel, ‘All the Truths Between Us’, was longlisted for the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize. A lifelong art-lover, her work often responds to thought-provoking exhibitions. Liz sees creative writing as a space for us to rest, reflect and imagine new ways of being in the world. She aims to facilitate hospitable workshops where each person comes away feeling refreshed. Beginners welcome!
Alistair Debling makes films, photographs, performances, meals and installations. His work investigates diverse fields, from queer nightlife and ecology to militarism, agriculture and architecture. Through sustained engagement with a particular community, he likes to discover unlikely connections between things: what does a nuclear power station have in common with a disco ball? A dairy cow with a canonised saint? A gay bar with a wild elephant? Recent projects have been commissioned and presented by Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness; Jwllrs, Morecambe; the Grundy Gallery, Blackpool; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria. Recent screenings include HOME, Manchester; Providenza, Corsica; Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Denmark; Atelier WG, Netherlands.
RAFTS by Alistair Debling is a new exhibition commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower, and will be on display from Friday 20th March - Monday 25th May 2026. The exhibition draws together data-driven climate research from Dr. Gordon Inglis at the University of Southampton and people-driven research from creative workshops with Rose Road to ask: what if climate change were reframed as an access and care issue? The resulting multimedia installation will flood the main gallery space at GHT, offering new strategies for staying afloat in the face of disaster.
Read more about the exhibition HERE
We're hosting a series of free workshops, talks and events alongside the run of RAFTS by Alistair Debling. Click here to get involved
The artwork for this exhibition can be found in the Main Gallery and Project Space which are both served by a lift. The ground floor bar and cafe to GHT have step free access from Town Quay Road. For information on parking and travel please visit the Plan your Visit page of our website.
If you’d like to familiarise yourself before your visit you can take a virtual tour of the spaces on our website. You’ll also find a visual story so that you know what to expect and how to identify members of the GHT Team.
