Work & Play

A Turner Prize winner, the first female head of Painting in the UK (at Winchester School of Art) and a revered Royal Academician – all featured in the exhibition of 30 artists’ exploration of the theme ‘Work & Play’ at The Winchester Gallery.  

Four works by Gillian Wearing, Roderick Buchanan, Gillian Ayres and Lisa Milroy, selected by Winchester School of Art’s MA Contemporary Curating students under the guidance of curator Julia Vogl, were loaned from the prestigious collection at Southampton City Art Gallery. Twenty-six additional artworks were on view alongside them, selected from a regional open call. Community artists joined with WSA’s BA and MA students, internationally recognised faculty, and alumni, showcasing myriad multi-media, interdisciplinary artworks on the theme of work and play.  

WSA Lecturer and Printmaking Fellow Julia Vogl, who led the co-curating experience, noted that the exhibition featured ‘four generations of artists with diverse nationalities, socio-economic backgrounds, and senses of humour’. Championing different points of view, ‘Work & Play’ embraced the absurd, the funny, the challenging and the political, making viewers think about work, play, and the relationship between them.