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Past Exhibitions

WSA Painting Prize 2024

September 23 to November 2

The WSA Painting Prize has been developed to support artists at an early stage in their practice and celebrates outstanding painting practice at undergraduate level

The Prize is an international initiative with young Greek artists in collaboration with their contemporaries in the UK. This initiative invites every higher education institution in the UK and in Greece that offers a BA Fine Art or Painting course to nominate a BA student to submit work. Nominations are reviewed anonymously and the final selection will be made by British artist Vanessa Jackson RA and Greek artist Christiana Soulou.

Exhibiting Finalists for 2024:

Randolfh Ayson Calina - Oxford Brookes University 
Bella Kim - University of Chichester
Alexis Charisis Maerkl - Universiy of Ioannina 
Ellie Memmou - Athens School of Fine Art
Alexandra Papavasileiou - Aristole University of Thessaloniki
Eustacia Patmanidi - Athens School of Fine Arts 
Oliwia Rodak - Teeside University 
Katie Rowe - London Metropolitan University
Aarthiha Sasitharan - University of Northampton
Vasiliki Siatara - Universiy of Ioannina

A montage of three images. The first shows the window of the Winchester Gallery with decals saying 'WSA Painting Prize.' The second and third show the interior of the gallery with many artworks hanging on the walls.


 

How To Draw A Bicycle

July 6 to August 3 2024

This summer, The Winchester Gallery featured ‘How to Draw a Bicycle’, a participatory exhibition produced in collaboration with Cycle Winchester. The exhibition brought artists into the gallery to offer hands-on opportunities for visitors to contribute to the exhibition.

Visitors were invited to create work for the bicycle wall, recall a favourite cycling memory, be inspired by local creatives making hand-crafted bicycles and cycling-related artworks, and explore what cycling meant to them.

‘How to Draw a Bicycle’ was a space to collectively shared our stories, memories, and reasons for riding. From commissioned artists to drop-in workshops, the gallery space was filled with making and creating, supporting everyone to express their views and narratives around how, why and where we ride.

Four photographs taken at the How to Draw a Bicycle exhibition. Clockwise from top left. Bicycle sculpture suspended from ceiling and decorated with colourful printed fabric. Two framed prints depicting cycling in scenic places with mountains in the distance. A 'creation station' which includes pots of coloured pencils, paper and lots of scissors. The window of Winchester Gallery with a bicycle behind it. A decal on the window says 'How to draw a bicycle.;

Four photographs taken at the How to Draw a Bicycle exhibition. Clockwise from top left. A wall with the words 'How to Draw a Bicycle' with a table in front that has leaflets on. A print on a plain wall that says 'Ride a bike - happiness guaranteed.' A drawing of a bike with lots of hand-written text around it describing the parts and safety checks. A person drawing a mural on a yellow wall of a rope bridge.

All photographs by Dave Gibbons


You Crazy Child

July 27 to August 4 2024

Location: Turps Gallery. The Chaplin Centre, Taplow House, Thurlow St, London SE17 2DG

The Winchester Gallery collaborated with Turps Gallery to present You Crazy Child, a contemporary art exhibition showcasing recent works by a new generation of young artists. The show was curated by Esme Keenleyside and Rhiannon Richardson- both recent graduates from the Winchester School of Art. 

Taking its title from a Billy Joel song, the exhibition was aptly reflected in the song's lyrics: "Slow down, you crazy child / You're so ambitious for a juvenile." This generation has navigated unprecedented times and emerged with a renewed commitment to analogue creation. Despite a formative education largely through Zoom during the pandemic, these artists consciously chose to eschew digital and social media, instead focusing on tangible, handcrafted works.

You Crazy Child featured a dynamic collection work from the graduates of five art schools. In the spirit of peer-led organizations like Turps Banana, this exhibition was both organized and curated by the young artists themselves. This collaborative approach underscored the ethos of community and mutual support, highlighting the importance of artist-led initiatives in today's art world.

Featured Artists:

Jessica Babbini-Baker, Winchester School of Art

Megan Berry, Winchester School of Art

Isidore Bishop-Sauve, Slade School of Art

Eleanor Cunningham, City & Guilds of London Art School

Alice Delhanty, City & Guilds of London Art School

Issy Eberlin, City & Guilds of London Art School

Esme Keenleyside, Winchester School of Art

Ted McKenzie, City & Guilds of London Art School

Emily O’Hara, Arts University Bournemouth

Rhiannon Richardson, Winchester School of Art

Thea Scultz, Arts University Bournemouth

Carys Tupper, Arts University Bournemouth

Yingying Zheng, Winchester School of Art

 

Moving Colour

March 7 to April 13 2024

Moving Colour was a multi-disciplinary group exhibition exploring phenomenological qualities in formal aspects of colour. The idea of static colour and pattern conveying emotional space is not new, and yet artists to this day are mystified by the Rubik’s cube of the proposition. Each artist’s work in this exhibition demonstrated a unique explorative path to capture the seemingly moving magic of colour

Showcasing myriad artists’ investigations—from paint, print, sculpture, and film to participatory work that allowed the visitor to share their views on weather and mood—Moving Colour was a world in which viewers of all ages had some fun and found a space for contemplation.

Featured Artists: Rana Begum, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Eleanor Lines, Jon Malis, Bridget Riley, Julia Vogl and David Whitaker.

Event: Marimba music with James Larter.

Moving Colourwas curated by Julia Vogl, Lecturer and Fellow in Printmaking in the Department of Art and Media Technology at Winchester School of Art.

With thanks to Frankie Whitaker, Cristea Roberts Gallery, and Southampton City Art Gallery.

A collection of images showcasing a contemporary art exhibition featuring colorful geometric and abstract artworks. Visitors are seen observing the pieces in brightly painted rooms, with vibrant shades of yellow, teal, and purple as backdrops, while some sculptures and framed prints are displayed on the walls.


Spatial Media, Inhabitations and Relocations: MA Global Media Management Exhibition.

May 16 to May 26

In 1994, the Marxist geographer Doreen Massey argued in Space, Place and Gender that communication via electronic mail and fax resulted in a ‘compression’ of space and time, and altered the experience of local space. Thirty years after Massey’s publication, the exhibition ‘Spatial Media, Inhabitations and Relocations’ asks to what extent new forms of technology and media rearticulate the meaning and the political stakes of the ideas of ‘space’ in the era of geopolitical unrest, increased precarity and climate catastrophe. The exhibition is an exploration of critical media practices to interrogate how different media approaches trouble the production and experience of space as it is inscribed with socio-political meaning. The exhibition comprises of creative group projects produced by MA Global Media Management students at Winchester Gallery.


The Winchester Gallery - Queering Connections: Triangulation

January 30 to February 25 2024

Queering Connections: Triangulation brought three women — Katherine Anteney, Sally Schuh, and Louise Siddons — together for a queer experiment in co-creative, collaborative cartography, curated in conversation with the WSA artists’ book collection.

Seattle, USA-based artist Sally Schuh works with text and image, blurring the line between printmaking and concrete poetry. Katherine Anteney, a WSA alumna based in Southampton, makes prints that explore the strangeness of words and local landscapes. Invited to collaborate, they quickly persuaded curator Louise Siddons to join in. Selections from the WSA book collection amplified the conversations their work collectively introduced about mapping, movement, disability, communication, activism, erasure, and more.

An art exhibition showcasing a variety of media, including photography, sculptures, books, and graphic art. Visitors walk through a gallery with walls adorned with photo series, while displays feature small sculptures, printed materials, and interactive pieces, with some text-based art and typography visible on the walls.


Design For Future

20 January 16 to 20 2024

The Winchester School of Art Global Smart Lab was established to advance research at the interface of art and design with respect to smart technologies, experiences and living. Ranging across the domains of health, well-being, education, learning and leisure, the Lab is focused on core challenges relating to the futures of AI, AR and VR, social and smart technologies, inclusivity, data culture and sustainability. In order to address real-world problems and challenges, we encouraged multidisciplinary collaborations and provided our students with opportunities to engage with world-leading researchers, external partners and end users.

The Design for Future Exhibition was based on six student live projects at Global Smart Lab and two research projects at the Design Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. In these projects, our students and staff worked with expertise from a variety of disciplines, including design, engineering, computer sciences, psychology, health sciences, cultural heritage and museum studies, exploring how smart technologies can be applied to improve people’s quality of life and make our society more inclusive.

An interactive exhibition featuring design concepts and virtual reality experiences. The images show visitors using VR headsets to explore virtual environments, such as a digital grocery store. The gallery walls display design posters, prototypes, and research materials, with mannequins and product layouts also featured.


 
Three people are closely examining an artwork hung on a wall

On view now

Details of the exhibition currently on in the Winchester Gallery.

 
A colourful sculpture is displayed on a white table

Coming soon

Details of the exhibitions coming up in the Winchester Gallery.

 
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