ARCHIVE

The Winchester Gallery has been hosting exhibitions for more than four decades. Much of that history is only documented in physical archives. We are creating this digital archive to make our history more accessible.

The online archive is a work in progress. Please email us at TWG@soton.ac.uk if you have material you would like to contribute.

WSA Painting Prize 2025

22 September to 18 October 2025

The WSA Painting Prize celebrates outstanding painting practice at undergraduate level, culminating in an annual exhibition at the Winchester Gallery, University of Southampton in the Autumn of each year.

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Small Worlds

11 July to 16 August 2025

The gallery was taken over by hundreds of handmade ‘small worlds’ that celebrate and explore our connections to nature, people and planet.

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Queering Connections Festival Weekend

26 to 27 July 2025

A festival to mark the reboot of Queering Connections, created in collaboration with university staff and Hampshire Trans Network, Winchester Pride and Trans Pride Winchester. 

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Degree Show Shop

5 June to 11 June 2025

The gallery was turned into a shop showcasing graduates’ work from across the disciplines. A chance for public to buy new work from emerging artists.

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Work & Play

28 March to 24 May 2025

30 artists, including works on loan from Southampton City Art Gallery, exploring the theme of Work & Play.

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Queering Connections – Triangulations

30 January to 25 February 2025

Katherine Anteney, Sally Schuh, and Louise Siddons came together for a queer experiment in co-creative, collaborative cartography, curated in conversation with the WSA artists’ book collection.  

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Queering Connections – Glitchy Kinship

31 January to 15 March 2025

Based on an ongoing collaboration between sociologist Lizzie Reed and visual artist Milou Stella, Glitchy Kinship asked what happens when connections are interrupted, changed, distorted, and reconstructed. 

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Collecting Sue Clowes

15 November 2024 to 18 January 2025

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 
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WSA Painting Prize 2024

23 September to 2 November 2024

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. It is an international initiative with young Greek artists in collaboration with their contemporaries in the UK. 

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How to draw a bicycle

July 10 to August 3 2024

This participatory exhibition, produced in collaboration with Cycle Winchester, brought artists into the gallery to offer hands-on opportunities for visitors to contribute to the exhibition.

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Second Breakfast

12 to 19 June 2024

This was an exhibition of work by WSA Fine Art Alumni, which was shown in The Winchester Gallery to coincide with the 2024 Degree Show. 

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Spatial Media, Inhibitions and Relocations

16 to 26 May 2024

This exhibition asked 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. 
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Building Financial Resilience for Later Life

25 April 2024

A visual arts exhibition dedicated to exploring the intersections between ethnicity, financial security, and pension protection. 

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Moving Colour

March 7 to April 13 2024

A multi-disciplinary group exhibition exploring phenomenological qualities in formal aspects of colour. 
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Design For Future

17 to 20 December 2023

This exhibition explored newly designed product and service concepts that could improve people’s quality of life from diverse perspectives.
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Palilmpfest

7 to 14 December 2023

The show was installed at various stages to represent an ongoing dialogue with process (a way of working which underscore the Fine Art Programme).Like a palimpsest the show could be viewed at these different stages of formation. 

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Ordinary Things

2 to 25 November 2023

In ‘Ordinary Things’, twenty-six artists at WSA transformed everyday objects into complex meditations on what it means to be in the world.

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WSA Painting Prize 2023

28 September to 20 October 2023

For its inaugural year, the WSA Painting Prize Award Exhibition 2023 invited innovative work by women artists with the intention of creating opportunities for young female Greek artists in collaboration with their contemporaries in the UK.