Love Thy Denim

A warm welcome to our new and returning students at WSA. We thought for our first blog of the academic year, we’d start with something local. Love Thy Denim is currently on at The… Continue reading →

Arts in the Forest: An Imaginative Trail!

  It’s the last weekend of the New Forest Arts Festival! The 2 week celebration has included exhibitions, demonstrations, installations, theatre, craft, music , talks and various workshops across the forest. WSA Library’s, Noriko Suzuki-Bosco,… Continue reading →

Installation Art and Summer Festivals

As we approach the end of term, we thought we would pull together some thoughts about installation art and the use of it at summer festivals, particularly as Winchester and the surrounding area offers a… Continue reading →

Nifty Kniffiti!

  Yarn bombing, guerrilla knitting, yarn storming, urban knitting, knit graffiti or my personal fave, ‘kniffiti’! All apply to the same creative art form of taking knitting to the streets, resulting in colourful… Continue reading →

Vogue 100 : a century of style

  Vogue 100, currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery, is an exhibition celebrating 100 years of this iconic magazine. When we visited we fully expected to see images of Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and… Continue reading →

Exhibition & Sculpture Park at The New Art Centre

I was feeling the need for a country adventure and so went in search of some hare sculptures I had come across online! Being the last day before the Easter break with bunnies… Continue reading →

Timorous Beasties at Winchester Discovery Centre

The Gallery at Winchester Discovery Centre is now showing an installation by award winning design company, Timorous Beasties.   Paul Simmons and Alistair McAulay formed the company in 1990 having met at Glasgow School… Continue reading →

Goldsmiths Special Collections and Archives

I had the opportunity to visit the Special Collections and Archives at Goldsmiths, University of London, in September. This is a dedicated national resource for students and academic researchers. Examples of items available for viewing… Continue reading →