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Past Exhibitions

Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship

January 31 to March 15 2025

This was the fifth iteration of the collaborative exhibition project ‘Queering Connections’. Based on an ongoing collaboration between sociologist Lizzie Reed and visual artist Milou Stella, the exhibition bought Stella’s recent work into conversation with selected Artists’ Books from the ��TV Library’s internationally renowned Artists’ Book Collection located at Winchester School of Art.

Connection can describe an inheritance: of stories, objects, or genetics. It can describe a link in a chain, something repeated, copied, and intertwined with what has come before. A connection can also be something we feel: kinship, belonging, the affective links we have to other people or animals, to objects, stories, or to our pasts and futures. Queering can mean a moment of interruption, change, or deconstruction. It might describe a rupture, gap or glitch in an otherwise orderly chain of copies.

Glitchy Kinship��asks what happens when connections are interrupted, changed, distorted, and reconstructed. How do glitches create possibilities for new kinships between words, images, feelings, people, objects and imaginations? How can connection stretch, anchoring us to one another across time and space? In summary: what happens when ‘connection’ is ‘queered’? The pieces presented here invite you to consider what happens as we collect, connect, queer, forget, and reconstruct the personal and the socio-cultural - our environments, norms, language, and stories.

Images by Millou Stella

A grid of abstract, glitch-style images transitions from bright blue, pink, and white hues in the top rows to a more natural floral field in the bottom row. The lower images display wildflowers in vivid colors, blending into darker tones, while the top emphasizes digital distortion and layered textures.

A vibrant, color-enhanced photo shows a person's legs walking barefoot on a beach, leaving footprints in the sand, with three eggs placed in a line in front of them. The sky is an intense orange, and the surrounding buildings are slightly distorted in bright pink and purple tones.

Collecting Sue Clowes: 1980s Fashion and Textile Design

November 15 to January 18

An 80s fashion exhibition featuring leading designer Sue Clowes who created clothing for 80s pop icons such as Boy George and Culture Club. Southampton based collector Mikey Bean has generously loaned his archive of Sue Clowes clothing and related ephemera in this celebration of 80s culture.

We were delighted to welcome Boy George to the gallery to witness his iconic contribution to the Collecting Sue Clowes exhibition.��

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Photo credit: Dave Gibbons

Sue Clowes and Mikey Bean stand together in Winchester Gallery. They each have an arm around each other and both hold floral bouquets.

Three people looking at white vests displayed on a gallery wall. The vests have colourful prints featuring flowers and pentagrams.

A view down the middle of two rows of mannequins dressed in clothes made from colourful printed fabrics

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WSA Painting Prize 2024

September 23 to November 2

The��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��and Greek artist��

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��
Jessica Rowe - London Metropolitan University
Aarthiha Sasitharan - University of Northampton
Vasiliki Siatara - Universiy of Ioannina

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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.

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��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

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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, ��TV. 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.