God's House Tower Artist-Led Tour: RAFTS with Alistair Debling

Event details

God's House Tower Town Quay Road SO14 2NY
23rd May 2026
Saturday, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

This event is part of the exhibition RAFTS by Alistair Debling. The exhibition will be on display until Monday 25th May 2026. GHT is open Thursday to Sunday every week. Free admission to Main Gallery Exhibitions.

Artist-Led Tour: RAFTS with Alistair Debling

Saturday 23rd May, 2:30pm – 4pm

A special celebration to mark the end of the exhibition, featuring a tour of the show by the lead artist, Alistair Debling, followed by an informal Q&A in the GHT Café.

About the artist

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.

About the exhibition

RAFTS by Alistair Debling is a new exhibition commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower. 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.