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Creative Thinkers
We are pleased to announce the launch of Creative Thinkers, Winchester School of Art’s new publication, showcasing the creative practices of our undergraduate, postgraduate, and research community. At WSA, we are proud to be recognised as one of the UK’s leading art and design institutions, with 98% of our arts graduates in employment.
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WSA Creative Careers Day
Join us for the WSA Creative Careers Day, an event designed to empower students with valuable insights into their future careers. The day will feature a series of talks from professionals in communication design, fashion design, game design, interior design, marketing and the Year in Employment graduates.
19th November 2024
09:45—16:00
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PhD Seminar Series Autumn 2024
The full programme for the Autumn 2024 PhD Seminar Series at Winchester School of Art is now up on the PGR blog: https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wsapgr/2024/10/21/phd-seminar-series-autumn-2024/. Sessions will run from 2-4pm on Thursdays during term time, in person (PGR Rooms at WSA) and on MS Teams. The series consists of (guest) speakers, workshops, trainings, and other research- and practice-led events.
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Jason Kwong – Hiraeth
We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming exhibition, Jason Kwong - Hiraeth, in West side foyer outside The Winchester Gallery. Please find out more details through the link:https://jasonkwonglm.com/hiraeth.html
2nd—13th November 2024
08:00—18:00
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WSA Painting Prize 2024
Please join us for the WSA Painting Prize Award Exhibition 2024 to celebrate outstanding painting practice created by artists in Greece and the UK studying at undergraduate level.
23rd September—2nd November 2024
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Design Dialogues: Explorative Play
Chaired by Danny Aldred, this contemporary speaker series invites leaders from the fields of design and creative practice to explore how play serves as a powerful tool for innovation and experimentation. Through explorative play, we challenge the boundaries of traditional design thinking, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and new creative processes.
9th October—4th December 2024
10:00—11:00
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Material Interests Guest Lecture: Edward James – The Art of Letter Writing
Damian Kelly-Basher in conversation with Ivan Hicks, hosted by Prof Louise Siddons.
24th October 2024
17:00—18:00
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Green Week 2024
Visit Winchester School of Art during Green Week 2024 to take part in a variety of Workshops and Exhibitions
21st—29th September 2024
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MA Degree Show 2024
Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our MA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our five postgraduate programmes: MA Contemporary Curating, MA Communication Design, MA Fashion Design, MA Textiles Design, MA Fine Art
5th—8th September 2024
12:00—17:00
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Democratic Futures wins the Student Partnership Impact Award
We're pleased to announce that our Graphic Communication alumni and former Studio 3015 interns (Amy Mepham, Ethan Read, Matt Slater, Mitesh Shantilal, Tom Emery, Weihong Tang & Zhuoya Wei) recently received the Student Partnership Impact Award by SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association) for their involvement in Democratic Futures.
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Alice Daggett Wins Gold at Graduate Fashion Week 2024
Huge congratulations to our third year BA Fashion Design student Alice Daggett who won Gold at Graduate Fashion Week 2024!
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Studio 3015’s Website Features in the Swiss Design Awards
Congratulations to Studio HarrisBlondman for their recent success at this year’s Swiss Design Award! They won in the ‘Media & Interaction Design’ category with a selection of recent websites which were exhibited in Basel, Switzerland. One of which includes the website they've completed for Studio 3015.
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How To Draw A Bicycle
There are loads of free opportunities to get involved in making and creating work for the Winchester Gallery’s exhibition. The exhibition will be growing over time as we welcome you into the space to help us create an exhibition full of everyone’s drawing and stories about what cycling means to you and your first memories of riding a bike. There is a lovely creation station full of kids friendly art materials for you to use. Draw the bicycle and get creative in the Winchester Gallery!
10th July—3rd August 2024
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Systems For…
‘Systems for...’ is our innovative WSA degree show where AI and human creativity intersect! Our BA Graphic Communication students leverage AI to explore new design methods, blending human input with advanced tech. This synergy pushes design boundaries, showcasing the future of creativity.
14th—16th June 2024
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WSA Exchange Pod
WSA Exchange presents the WSA Exchange Pod, a new series introducing you to students, leading educators, researchers and industry connections, who will be sharing their thoughts on all things creative.
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SOUND HAMPSHIRE: LET’S WALK & LISTEN DAY
May we become FAB PALS? Do you live, work or play in Hampshire, and have a hidden story to share, or a bold dream to inspire us? Join us for a relaxed walk at Winchester School of Art Campus (SO23 8DL)! Let’s learn to become better neighbours, friends, and co-create fabulous futures together. Visual designed by Kai Syng Tan, inspired by the textile designs of WSA BA Textile Student Yanxiao Wu
28th June 2024
14:00—16:30
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“The Chronicles of Xenosocialist AI”: Towards Feminist and Decolonial AI with Artistic Research and Creative Methods
Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group hosts a workshop and a half-day informal symposium dedicated to the use of artistic research, science fiction, future studies and other creative methods in researching cultural approaches to AI and decolonial and feminist AI imaginaries.
28th May 2024
11:00—17:15
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Ctrl Alt Del: BA Games Design and Art 2024
BA Games Design and Art are pleased to announce the dates of the showcase of their graduating cohort in London & Winchester.
13th—24th June 2024
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We believe in handmadeness: 40 years of John Bently’s Liver & Lights Scriptorium
This exhibition celebrates forty years of the Liver & Lights Scriptorium, artist John Bently’s imprint for exploring the infinite possibilities of the book as a form of art. The collection is part of Winchester School of Art Library’s Artists’ Book Collection.
3rd May—6th June 2024
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BA Degree Show 2024
Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our BA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our six undergraduate programmes: BA Fashion Marketing with Management, BA Fashion Design, BA Fine Art, BA Games Design & Art, BA Graphic Communication & BA Textile Design
14th—16th June 2024
10:00—20:00
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Relax at Rotunda
We welcome you to unwind and relax in a new space - Relax at Rotunda - this is a space for you to enjoy some quiet time, without the noise and distraction of mobile phones, a space where you can unwind and enjoy the peace and tranquility visible outside the windows of this beautiful building and observe the park, water and life passing by.
1st May—8th June 2024
09:00—17:00
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Dual Effect
Come and play a variety of digital and tabletop games designed and produced by Games Design and Art students at The Nutshell, Winchester.
13th May 2024
15:30—18:30
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Coordinates of Infinity
An exhibition of new works by MA Fine Art and practice-based PhD students from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
10th—19th May 2024
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Design Dialogues: Anthony Burrill
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Anthony Burrill. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.
8th May 2024
10:00—11:00
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Dragons, clouds and peonies: Mike Bastin
This seminar starts with an overview of the “use of traditional embroidery in fashion” over the years and around the world and then highlights major areas of extant research in the area of “embroidery and/in fashion”. An overview of traditional Chinese embroidery is then provided that also follows on logically to an overview of extant research on the use of Chinese embroidery and/in fashion.
29th May 2024
13:00—14:15
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Conceptualizing Queer Embodiments in Fashion Studies Between Visual Analysis and Ethnography
This seminar wants to address and explore some of the challenges and possibilities of moving the study of queer embodiments from the analysis of high fashion critical practices to everyday dress practices, and thus, methodologically, from the widespread archival and visual approaches to an ethnographic understanding of the dressed body.
22nd May 2024
13:00—14:30
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Disrupted Narratives
Join us for the MA Communication Design work-in-progress interim exhibition. Over recent months students have been exploring strategies for structuring, designing, and disseminating information across both digital and physical platforms. This show contains a snapshot of this work, from experimental beginnings to works still in flux.
8th—14th May 2024
10:00—16:00
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Film Screening: Land of My Dreams (2023)
Filmscreening of Land of My Dreams (2023) by award-winning filmmaker Nausheen Khan +Conversation with Assoc.Prof. in Arts & Cultural Leadership, Dr Kai Syng Tan.
5th June 2024
11:30—13:30
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BA Fashion Design Show
BA Fashion Design present their End of Year Show at the Winchester Guildhall. Free tickets are required for this event and are available by clicking here.
16th May 2024
17:00—19:30
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Spatial Media, Inhabitations and Relocations
MA GMM invite you to their exhibition 'Spatial Media, Inhabitations and Relocations'. The exhibition comprises of creative group projects produced by MA Global Media Management students at The Winchester Gallery.
16th—26th May 2024
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Design Dialogues: Studio Kunze
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Studio Kunze. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.
1st May 2024
10:00—11:00
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Dr. Sterling MacKinnon: Digital Objects in Heritage Science
The MA Global Media Management Programme is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Sterling MacKinnon. Dr. MacKinnon is a researcher with the Oxford Resilient Buildings and Landscapes Laboratory, a sound artist, and the project manager for Kickstarting Heritage Innovation.
23rd April 2024
13:30—14:00
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Design Dialogues: Can Yan
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Can Yan. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.
24th April 2024
10:00—11:00
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Evolving Languages
Join us for a challenging and engaging seminar event on exploring issues related to evolving contemporary language and terminologies used within equality, diversity and inclusion.
23rd April 2024
10:00—15:00
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Material Interests: Toy Stories … How ‘not’ to make a living as an artist.
Part stand-up comedy, part performance lecture, TOY STORIES takes the audience on an irreverent, powerful and hilarious storytelling adventure through art, contemporary politics, twentieth-century history and toys. A dazzling journey from Scalextric to Nazis!
7th May 2024
16:00—18:00
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Building Financial Resilience for Later Life
This is a visual arts exhibition dedicated to exploring the intersections between ethnicity, financial security, and pension protection. It is the first public exhibition as part of our 3-year academic project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Inclusive Ageing initiative, titled ‘Promoting inclusivity in pension protection and other forms of saving among men and women from black and minority ethnic communities in the UK: a mixed methods study’.
25th April 2024
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Speculative and critical design practices for engaging with AI
The first in a new series of The Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Group Webinars: Dave Murray-Rust (TU Delft) will showcase how design approaches can be used to inform the creation of AI technology, with the hope of creating more resonant and humane technologies.
26th April 2024
13:00—14:00
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Moving Colour – James Larter on Xylosynth
Join us this Saturday (13/04/23) at 2pm for our last day of Moving Colour, where renowned percussionist James Larter will be performing live.
13th April 2024
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Material Interests: EMPTYNESS NOT NOTHINGNESS, co-creating with community
Liz Gre and Julia Vogl in conversation about temporality, making spaces within spaces, using sensorial materials and means with groups to share individual stories collectively. Sharing on their recent projects and show Moving Colour at The Winchester Gallery and Embodied Cacophonies at Lindisfarne Castle (still on view).
24th April 2024
11:30—12:30
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World Earth Day and The Living Library
We invite you and your students to attend an afternoon event for World Earth Day. Winchester School of Art, Department of Design in conjunction with the Royal Society for Arts and the Future Cities Community Hub.
22nd April 2024
13:00—21:00
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WSA Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Nicholas Daley
Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.
25th April 2024
17:30—18:40
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F&T Spring Research Seminar Series: Dr Birgitta Huse
You are invited to the next F&T Spring Research Seminar Series: Dressing “Mexican”: A Balancing Act between Indigenous Cultural Expression and Fashion, Dr Birgitta Huse.
20th March 2024
14:00—15:15
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GMM Screen Practices Talk | Chloe Abrahams: The Taste of Mango
The MA Global Media Management Programme is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by artist and filmmaker Chloe Abrahams in Lecture Theatre A.
19th March 2024
13:30—14:30
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Design Dialogues: Ruth Potts
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Ruth Potts. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.
20th March 2024
10:00—11:00
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WSA Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Oriole Cullen
Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.
19th March 2024
17:30—18:40
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Design Dialogues: Patrick Thomas
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Patrick Thomas. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Westside Lecture Theatre on Wednesday at 10am.
13th March 2024
10:00—11:00
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WSA Exchange x Industry Insights: Andria Aletrari
4th March 2024
17:30—18:30
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Design Dialogues: Studio Blup
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Studio Blup. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 2pm.
6th March 2024
14:00—15:00
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Moving Colour
Exhibition closed for Easter Break 29/3/24–4/4/24. Moving Colour is 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 demonstrates a unique explorative path to capture the seemingly moving magic of colour.
7th March—13th April 2024
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WSA Exchange x Tods: Industry Live Brief
Tods is collaborating with the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, to introduce an exciting knowledge exchange project for WSA students in 2024. This opportunity is available to students at both Masters and Undergraduate levels. This is an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams to produce a series of outcomes for the client that encompasses marketing, business, art, gaming, communication and design.
15th February—31st March 2024
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WSA Exchange x The Dorchester: Industry Live Brief
The Dorchester Collection is collaborating with the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, to introduce an exciting knowledge exchange project for WSA students in 2024. This opportunity is available to students at both Masters and Undergraduate levels. This is an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams to produce a series of outcomes for the client that encompasses marketing, business, art, gaming, communication and design.
15th February—31st March 2024
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WSA Exchange x FENDI: Industry Live Brief
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton is to introduce an exciting knowledge exchange project for WSA students in 2024. This opportunity is available to students at both Masters and Undergraduate levels. This is an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams to produce a series of outcomes for Fendi that encompasses marketing, business, art, gaming, communication and design.
15th February—31st March 2024
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Fashion & Sustainability Forum 2024 – Colour & Sustainability
WSA Fashion & Sustainability Forum, including presentations, panel discussion, networking and exhibitions. Meet the speakers and join the conversation at Winchester School of Art.
13th March 2024
10:00—19:00
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Design Dialogues: Anagram
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Anagram. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.
28th February 2024
10:00—11:00
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Design Dialogues: Tracey Bush
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Tracey Bush. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.
21st February 2024
10:00—11:00
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Reimagined
The MA Fashion Design and MA Textile Design programmes invites you to Reimagined. A vibrant intersection of creativity, diversity and cultural exploration. This exhibition showcases students' boundary-pushing journey through African heritage, where tradition meets contemporary cutting-edge practice.
7th—22nd March 2024
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Exchange x Fashion Thinkers: Charles Jeffrey, LOVERBOY
Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.
22nd February 2024
17:00—18:30
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Film Fridays
All students and staff are welcome to come along to Graphic Communication’s afternoon film sessions in the Graphics Social Space (3003). Each week we will be showcasing a lecture from a practitioner that supports your learning.
9th February—3rd May 2024
15:00—16:00
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Material Interests: Queer Mycorientations In Socialist Herbalism
28th February 2024
11:30—12:30
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Design Dialogues: Wolfe Hall
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Wolfe Hall. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A on Wednesday at 10am.
14th February 2024
10:00—11:00
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Design Dialogues: Craig Oldham
We are pleased to continue Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Craig Oldham. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in online-only via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday at 10am.
7th February 2024
10:00—11:00
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Design Dialogues: Eileen White
We are pleased to launch Semester 2's Guest Lecture Series, Design Dialogues with Eileen White. Centred around the theme of 'provenance', we're inviting guests to share a book that held significant value to them early in their careers. This session will be in Lecture Theatre A, West Building on Wednesday at 10am.
31st January 2024
10:00—11:00
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She That Day: Sally Schuh in conversation with Louise Siddons
31st January 2024
11:30—12:30
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Queering Connections: Triangulation
30th January—25th February 2024
12:00—18:00
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Daniel Lehan: Paint Out, Cut Outs, Tear Up Erasures
30th January—16th March 2024
08:00—20:00
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BBC South: E-textile Innovation Lab’s glove offers ‘life changing’ movement to stroke patients
BBC South recently came to the E-textile Innovation Lab to discuss and showcase a prototype electronic glove that enables movement in paralysed hands is potentially "life-changing", stroke patients have said. Developed at the University of Southampton using Winchester School of Art's equipment, it is intended to help people regain muscle strength and function.
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Arjan Guerrero – A World is an Object is a World: Navigating Space Technologies
The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you all to a guest lecture by artist Arjan Guerrero who works with automating, augmenting, and interactive media.
5th December 2023
14:00—15:00
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Professor Gabriele Budach – Moving Encounters: Engaging with materiality that speaks
In this talk, Prof Gabriele Budach proposes stop motion animation and the cooperative creation of short animated films as a starting point for addressing the question of how we can overcome divisions created by language, language policies, and linguistic imperialism, while continuing to use these very same means of communication.
12th December 2023
11:30—12:30
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Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research Group Launch: Federating Research
This inaugural event marks the launch of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research (CIIP) research group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and is the first event in the collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI, London South Bank University) and Digital Aesthetics Research Group (DARC, Aarhus University).
1st December 2023
10:00—12:00
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First Year Art Exhibition
Winchester School of Art is pleased to present the First Year Art Exhibition, featuring work from MA Fine Art students, opening at 4pm on Thursday 7th in the Westside Foyer.
7th December—15th January 2024
16:00—18:00
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MAISON MAFD
A transformative, five-day workshop that delves into the art of creative Japanese cutting. Under the umbrella of MAISON MAFD, students worked as a collective design house to push the boundaries of traditional garment cutting, resulting in an inspiring collection that reflects both innovation and craftsmanship.
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Case Studies
This winter, 'Case Studies' will highlight three WSA staff members, each employing 3D printing in some form or other within their creative process. Come spring, students will be invited to submit proposals exploring 3D printing in their own practice.
14th November—22nd March 2024
09:00—17:00
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WSA Exchange Launch
Join the WSA Exchange launch event to learn more about the initiative aimed at connecting you with a world-class university. Offering services to help transform society (business and civic) by bringing together academic staff, students, research users and wider groups and communities to exchange ideas, evidence and expertise. Specialisms in digital, media, technology, marketing, fashion, design and art, helping transform for the better good.
14th November 2023
16:30—18:30
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WSA Careers Fair
Join us at Winchester School of Art, Westside Foyer and Lecture Theatre A, for our Careers Fair on Wednesday 22nd November at our Winchester Campus.
22nd November 2023
12:00—15:00
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Wesley Goatley: Artificial Intelligence Does Not Exist
The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you all to a guest lecture by artist and researcher Wesley Goatley, whose work examines Artificial Intelligence technologies and their relations to society, geopolitics, and the climate crisis, and how art practice can intervene and explore these tools and topics.
7th November 2023
14:00—15:00
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Ordinary Things
More than a century ago, Marcel Duchamp celebrated ordinary objects by putting them on pedestals in galleries. His playful engagement with the ‘museum effect’ — the extraordinary attention we’re expected to pay any object placed in an art gallery — suggested that art is an act of heightened awareness. In ‘Ordinary Things’, twenty-six artists at WSA transform everyday objects into complex meditations on what it means to be in the world.
2nd—25th November 2023
12:00—18:00
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UKFT x WSA Programme 2023/2024
UKFT’s MADE IT programme has been developed to enrich the production and sourcing knowledge of fashion design and textile design graduates and to illustrate the wealth of technical and creative roles available throughout the UK supply chain. This is a unique programme only available to the handful of UKFT member universities.
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Foraging & Fermenting Ideas Workshop
This event presents a performative, participatory approach to public engagement in fluvial ecologies through artistic practice. Participants will be introduced to the Island of the Day Before project, followed by an outdoor tour of the surrounding Itchen River and Winnall Moors.
12th November 2023
14:00—18:00
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In conversation with Nick Stewart
Nick Stewart asks questions about place, identity, archives and film, in the context of recent Irish history. Over the past 25 years, this had led to a body of work in video, two artist’s books, and a new feature film project, Children of the North. Taking a deep- dive into the media archives of the conflict in N Ireland, a conflict within which Stewart was embedded for most of his life.
18th October 2023
11:00—12:00
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Department of Design: Guest Lecture Series
Winchester School of Art's Department of Design is pleased to announce the Guest Lecture Series lineup for 2023! Featuring Happening Studio, Open Practice and Shirley Wang on Microsoft Teams every Wednesday. Follow us on Instagram for the latest news (@wsa_design).
4th October—6th December 2023
10:00—11:30
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In conversation with Pascal Matthias
Join Pascal Matthias, our new Associate Vice-President EDI and Social Justice, to continue the discussion through a series of open, informal, semi-structured conversations. This series provides a space to listen and to talk, as we come together to reflect on how we are making progress in becoming a more diverse and inclusive community, and where more still needs to be done.
12th October 2023
15:00—16:00
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SALT+SHAW: Taking A Journey
SALT+SHAW (Paul Salt and Susan Shaw) have been producing artists’ books in collaboration since 2002. ‘Taking A Journey’ celebrates twenty-one years of making in twenty-one books, with objects and supporting items also on display, to reflect influences, ideas and the process of making.
2nd November—15th December 2023
08:00—20:00
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PhD Seminar Series
The Winchester School of Art PhD Seminar Series will take place every week during term time, same time same place (2-4pm on Wednesdays during term time, in person in the WSA PGR Room and online on MS Teams). The series consists of (guest) speakers, workshops, trainings, and other research- and practice-led events.
11th October—13th December 2023
14:00—15:00
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WSA Painting Prize 2023
The new WSA Painting Prize celebrates outstanding painting practice at undergraduate level, culminating in an exhibition at the Winchester Gallery, University of Southampton in Autumn 2023.
25th September—21st October 2023
09:00—17:00
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Branching Out
Branching out is an outdoor, collaborative Game Jam between Year 2 & 3 BA Games Design and Art students in the WSA car park.
6th October 2023
15:00—17:00
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WSA Green Week 2023
Join us for an exciting event at Winchester School of Art as we celebrate Green Week! These in-person events promise an unforgettable experience. For more information and to book your place on any workshops or presentations, please search here on Eventbrite for WSA Green Week listings.
25th—30th September 2023
09:00—17:00
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MA Degree Show 2023
Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our MA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our postgraduate programmes: MA Contemporary Curating, MA Fashion Design, MA Fine Art, and MA Textile Design.
7th—10th September 2023
12:00—18:00
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More than a Thesis: Different Approaches to PGR Study
A collective group exhibition organised by Winchester School of Art (WSA) postgraduate research students was held in The Winchester Gallery between 29 June – 26 July 2023.
29th June—26th July 2023
11:00—17:00
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Beyond The Frame – Tate Britain Workshop
Work with creative facilitators to use new AI and digital imaging technologies to produce new works of art and collaborate with others to build a virtual visualisation of Tate Britain as an inclusive, accessible, and non-hierarchical space.
10th June 2023
10:00—17:00
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BA Degree Show 2023
Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our BA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our six undergraduate programmes: BA Fashion Marketing with Management, BA Fashion Design, BA Fine Art, BA Games Design & Art, BA Graphic Arts & BA Textile Design
16th—18th June 2023
10:00—18:00
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ESC: BA Games Design & Art 2023
BA Games Design & Art presents: Escape, BA (Hons) Games Design & Art Final Project showcase. Open 21st June 18:00–21:00, 22nd June 11:00–21:00, Hoxton Arches, Arch 402 Cremer St, London E2 8HD #wsagames
21st—22nd June 2023
18:00—21:00
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BATD: BA Textile Design 2023
Winchester School of Art is pleased to announce that BA Textile Design will be showcasing the work of their graduating 2023 cohort at New Designers, Business Design Centre in London.
28th June—1st July 2023
09:00—17:00
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BA Fashion Design 2023
Join BA Fashion Design at their Winchester Guildhall Show on 6th June, 18:00–20:00. For student, press, industry and collaboration information contact: wsabafd@soton.ac.uk
6th June 2023
18:00—20:00
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Databites Session with Sasha Anikina
Databites: What can we see in the background of a video conference call? The daily practices of changing, concealing or performing the background for video conferencing reveal a symptomatic landscape of immaterial labour that records the changes in contemporary working conditions. This talk will be on Microsoft Teams.
17th May 2023
13:00—14:00
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Half Full – Interim Show
Winchester School of Art is pleased to present Half Full, an Interim Show showcasing the work of students on the MA Fine Art & MA Communication Design programmes.
15th—18th May 2023
09:00—18:00
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Democratic Futures
Democratic Futures launches with a sequence of motion pieces across Winchester School of Art’s campus, providing an overview of work that was produced by BA Graphic Arts students in response to the brief Democratic Futures, set by the Parliamentary Archives.
1st—8th June 2023
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In conversation: Dr Emma Reay & Dr Alexandra Anikina
In this session, Dr Emma Reay and Dr Alexandra Anikina will share their recent work, followed by a conversation bridging these projects. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.
3rd May 2023
11:00—12:30
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In conversation: Kwame Phillips & Anna Angelhardt
On Wednesday, Kwame Phillips will be in conversation with Anna Angelhardt regarding their recent research. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.
10th May 2023
11:00—13:00
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FRAGMENTS
An exhibition curated by Fine Art Printmaking students exploring themes of collage and assemblage, fragmentation and reconstruction, with a broad focus on works on paper. Exhibition runs 28 April to 4 May in The Winchester Gallery and Westside Foyer. Viewing event this Thursday 27 April, 4-5pm.
27th April—4th May 2023
16:00—17:00
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In conversation with Adam Procter & Sunil Manghani
On Wednesday, Professor Sunil Manghani will be in conversation with Dr. Adam Procter, regarding his recent research. The AMT talk will be in person and on Teams, but the PM workshop is in person only.
26th April 2023
15:00—16:00
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In conversation: Anna Englehardt
On Wednesday 10th May, Anna Englehart regarding Hardwired Obsolescence of Russian Colonialism. The AMT talk will be in person in Lecture Theatre B.
10th May 2023
11:00—13:00
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New Collection: WSA Prospectuses
The Library are pleased to announce that a new collection has been added to our Digital Library: WSA Prospectuses. The collection features over a century of inspiring cover design and WSA history with the earliest document in the collection dating back to 1910. The collection acts as a unique insight into the School’s heritage and constant evolution in visual language.
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Screens Shot: Mediating The Interactive Interface
The Data Image Lab is pleased to host a talk by Jacob Gaboury, Associate Professor of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. The talk will be in person at WSA, 63 South/3003 (Seminar Room 7) and on Teams.
2nd May 2023
13:30—15:00
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A Social Practice For Sustainability
The Social Practices Lab presents a discussion by Dr Bruce Montgomery, Associate Professor of Fashion Leadership at Winchester School of Art. Bruce will be discussing the social practice of sustainability with two leading fashion advocates, Dilys Williams & Bandana Tewari. The talk will be on Teams.
27th April 2023
09:40—11:00
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Coming soon: WSA Painting Prize 2023
The new WSA Painting Prize celebrates outstanding painting practice at undergraduate level, culminating in an exhibition at the Winchester Gallery, University of Southampton in Autumn 2023. The inaugural 2023 contemporary art exhibition seeks to support and nurture innovative work from women artists in Greece and the UK in acknowledgement of the continued uner-representation of women artists worldwide.
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Playing with the Climate Crisis
Playing with the Climate crisis is a 3 day table top gaming event in which you will hear talks, have a chance to participate in a climate game making workshop and be the first people in the world to play a pre-production copy of Daybreak.
13th—15th April 2023
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Wastework
The Winchester Gallery presents WASTEWORK, a showcase of reusing & sustainable thinking. Featuring: John Walter, Donna Mitchell, Jasone Miranda Bilbao, Compound 13 Lab, Ian Dawson, Aqui Thami, Louisa Minkin, Sharmila Samant, Migueltzinta Solis, Andrea Mason, Ben Parry, Amanda Jobson, Marie-Louise Jones, Erika Trotzig Jefford Horrigan, Mario Rossi, Mia Taylor, Stephen Cornford, Ali Eales & Trinity Art Group.
6th March—15th April 2023
10:00—17:00
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Fashion & Sustainability Forum 2023
MA Fashion Design & the Materials Lab presents Winchester School of Art's annual Fashion & Sustainability Forum 2023, introducing talks & debates from industry-leading speakers.
8th—9th March 2023
10:30—19:00
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Bhajan Hunjan connecting with Maria Lucia Cattani
The Winchester Gallery is pleased to be showcasing the work of Bhajan Hunjan, the 2020 Artist in Residence at Projecto Maria Lucia Cattani, Brazil, where artists and curators are invited to celebrate the late Maria Lucia Cattani.
1st February—3rd March 2023
08:00—20:00
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Relaunching Studio 3015’s Website
Studio 3015 is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, an archival system that has been designed & developed by Studio Harris Blondman. Featuring a multidimensional spreadsheet and interchangeable grid views, the studio worked closely together to emphasise our involvement in a wide variety of education, research and social projects for activities across Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton and external partners from a range of professional and civic domains.
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Queering Connections: Narielwalla // Dixon
The Winchester Gallery is pleased to be showcasing the third iteration of ‘Queering Connections' for Hormazd Narielwalla and Jeremy Dixon, represented in Winchester School of Art’s internationally renowned Artists’ Book Collection.
1st February—3rd March 2023
10:00—16:00
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UK Exclusive: What Colour Is Metal?
The Winchester Gallery presents: What Colour is Metal? An exhibition that brings audiences on a journey of process, experimentation and mastery through the practice of 25 contemporary jewellers and silversmiths.
14th October—3rd December 2022
12:00—17:00
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AMT Material Interests: Guest Lecture Series
The Materials Lab presents the Art and Media Technology Autumn speaker series, starting on October 1st until December 14th 2022. To join online, email: j.n.ghazi@soton.ac.uk
26th October—14th December 2022
11:00—12:30
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WSA Green Week 2022
WSA Green Week, in association with Winchester Green Week, provides a series of events and activities delivered by Winchester School of Art, aimed to highlight more sustainable ways of living.
26th September—7th October 2022
11:00—17:00
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Protest.mp4: Antalis Creative Power Finalist
The 'Protest.mp4' publication, designed by Studio 3015 & BA Graphic Arts students, has been selected as a finalist within the category 'Design for Good' for the Anatalis Creative Power Awards.
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Elevate: BA Games Design & Art 2022
Elevate celebrates the graduating cohort from Winchester School of Art 2022, BA Hons Games Design & Arts programme.
6th—7th July 2022
18:00—21:00
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MA Degree Show 2022
Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our MA Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our five postgraduate studio programmes.
8th—11th September 2022
11:00—18:00
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Protest.mp4: Private View
Studio 3015 & BA Graphic Arts launched the private view for the Protest.mp4 exhibition on 29th April 2022, as part of a collaborative student project that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton Uprisings.
28th April—6th May 2022
15:00—17:00
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Revelate: BA Fashion Design 2022
Revelate celebrates the graduating cohort from Winchester School of Art 2022, BA Fashion Design programme.
22nd—23rd July 2022
10:00—16:00
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BA Degree Show 2022
Winchester School of Art has the pleasure of inviting you to our Summer Degree Show, showcasing work from the graduating students of our six undergraduate programmes.
17th—19th June 2022
11:00—18:00
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BA Textile Design 2022
BA Textile Design presents the work of our graduating class of 2022, a creative and unique group who have worked with tenacity and diligence to overcome and succeed while studying through a pandemic.