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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.

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.

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.

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.   

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.

Damian Kelly-Basher in conversation with Ivan Hicks, hosted by Prof Louise Siddons.

Visit Winchester School of Art during Green Week 2024 to take part in a variety of Workshops and Exhibitions

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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!

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

WSA Fashion & Sustainability Forum, including presentations, panel discussion, networking and exhibitions. Meet the speakers and join the conversation at Winchester School of Art.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.