A Turner Prize winner, the first female head of Painting in the UK (at Winchester School of Art) and a revered Royal Academician -- all feature in the latest exhibition ‘Work & Play’ at The Winchester Gallery, at Winchester School of Art. 

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, will be on loan from the prestigious collection at Southampton City Art Gallery. Twenty-six additional artworks will be on view alongside them, selected from a regional open call. Community artists join with WSA’s BA and MA students, internationally recognised faculty, and alumni, showcasing a myriad of multi-media, interdisciplinary  artworks on the theme of work and play. 

WSA Lecturer and Printmaking Fellow Julia Vogl, who led the co-curating experience, notes that the exhibition features ‘four generations of artists with diverse nationalities, socio-economic backgrounds, and senses of humour’. Championing different points of view, ‘Work & Play’ embraces the absurd, the funny, the challenging and the political. Each artwork will make you think again about work, play, and the relationship between them. 

'Work & Play’ will be at The Winchester Gallery from 28 March through 24 May, with a public opening from 5-7pm on 27 March. Visitors can look forward to a wide range of artworks that question the playfulness of work and the purpose of creativity. 

Something for everyone, not to be missed – free admission!   

Gallery opening times: 

Tuesday – Friday 12 – 6pm 

Saturday 12 - 4pm 

Closed over Easter: 17 – 22 April 

Images, L-R, Top to bottom: Artwork by Claudia F, artwork by Tracey Dovey - Photo credit Dave Gibbons. Gallery wall and Trinity Arts Group - Photo credit Muchun Zhao.