Exhibitions

Launch Event: House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown

Join us as we celebrate the launch of our latest exhibition, House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown.

Date

05/06/26

Organisation

'a space' arts

Region

Southampton

Address

God’s House Tower, Town Quay Road, Southampton, SO14 2NY

Opening Times

18:00 – 21:00

Website

godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/launch-event-house-of-revision-house-of-repair-by-uma-breakdown/edate/2026 – 06-05/

House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown is a project about love, restraint, liberty, pain, growth and collapse. Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower, the exhibition explores alternative routes through time, drawing on fact and fiction to reimagine the past and speculate about the future.

Working across drawing, fiction, animation, code and sculpture, the artist revisits the building’s past as a Bridewell, an institution established in the 18th Century to house ‘idlers, vagrants and prostitutes’. The project asks what a place of spiritual and physical repair for people seen as ‘other’ might be, if freed from the authority of state and church that underpinned these ‘Houses of Correction’ and the subsequent systems they have evolved into since?

Using the unique history and architecture of God’s House Tower, as well as the artist’s home of the North East, House of Revision / House of Repair imagines a sacred grove for fringe cultures and unconventional communities with alternative belief systems, such as ancient outlawed religions and pre-modern travelling performance groups, centering communal care at the edges of legality.

About the Event

Doors will open at 6pm and guests will be invited to grab a drink and explore the galleries. At 7pm, ‘a space’ arts curator & programme manager, Mia Delve will introduce the exhibition and the artist, Uma Breakdown will perform a reading and unpack some of the themes and ideas in the work.

The bar will be open throughout the evening serving drinks and light refreshments.

This event is part of the exhibition House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown. The exhibition will be on display from 5th June 2026 – 27th July 2026. Free admission to Main Gallery Exhibitions. GHT Opening Days: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.