Our goal is to create a collaborative and accessible art project for the people of Portsmouth.

The #CreateUpPompey Community Artist Colouring Book enables you to discover some of Portsmouth’s brilliant artists, designers and illustrators, whils participating yourself by sharing your own colourful versions of the artists work.

In December 2020 and early this year, we ran an extensive recruitment process to appoint a CEO “star!” for Portsmouth Creates CIC.

Throughout the recruitment process, we were generously supported by Arts Council England.

After considering some 45 excellent applications (!!), interviewed 9 wonderful candidates over the course of 2 days we settled on a collective decision, offered the job, got acceptance and were well underway co-ordinating stat dates, add an additional Kick Start-Non-Exec Directors, etc.

When we launched our search for a Portsmouth Creates CEO “star!”, we also launched a search for additional Kick Start None-Exec Board Directors – seeking a range of talents and experiences to complement the existing, start-up team.

We had made the decision to wait for the new CEO to be fully on-board, so that we could appoint the Directors to complement their skill set, but in early March and with CEOs involvement (you’ll read more about that later), we felt that the momentum we were building required at least one extra Director on the board immediately.