We Don't Need Culture

We Don't Need Culture is a project based in and around the Portsmouth area in association with Portsmouth City Council and Arts Council England with the aim to expose working arts practice to local people using portraiture as a tool for a re-examination of the word ‘culture', and to examine the difference between the ideals and reality of social structures that culture represents. Targeted at local people who connect the word culture with elitist connotations, the project delivers new perspectives through portrait painting exhibited in freely accessable areas such as community centres.