Welcome to the Library's exhibitions and events page
Find out about our current and upcoming exhibitions and events, which will be taking place in one or more of our gallery spaces at the Hartley Library, the National Oceanographic Library and the Winchester School of Art Library.
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Scroll through the gallery below to explore events and exhibitions currently taking place.
Journeys into Spiritual Wellbeing: Urban Meditation in Taiwanese Outsider Art
This outsider art exhibition embodies aesthetic and creative expressions of urban meditation, a meditative experience known in Taiwan as self-detachment (放空). It showcases 18 drawings created by anonymous artists living with mental health conditions in Taiwan. Expressive, whimsical and deeply emotional, these artworks celebrate artists’ creativity and translate their meditative experiences into journeys for spiritual wellbeing.
On display at Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library
Tales from the National Oceanographic Library Archive
The National Oceanographic Library (NOL) based at the National Oceanographic Centre contains documents and artefacts relating to over 100 years of oceanographic and marine science history. Tales from the National Oceanographic Library Archive explores just a fraction of some of these artefacts. Using 3D printing and an interactive audio experience you can see, touch, utilise, and even hear the stories of these fascinating objects.
Tales from the National Oceanographic Library Archive is a student led project created by Lingyi Zhang during an 18 day placement with the Digital Scholarship team based in Hartley Library, as part of a professional placement during her master’s course in Archaeology.
On display at the National Oceanographic Library
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The Library's 2nd Summer Exhibition will showcase artwork created by staff from the University of Southampton. This year's theme is Connection.
On display at Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library
Discovery 100
To mark the centenary of the RRS Discovery, the exhibition will draw on material from the National Oceanography Library archive to highlight something of life on board in the 1920s.
Curated by Emma Guest (Engagement Librarian), Catherine Polley (Head of Collections Engagement), Peter Webster (Head of Digital Scholarship and Innovation) and Karen Robson (Head of Archives and Special Collections).
On display at Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library
Explore some of our past exhibitions:
Paint Outs, Cut Outs, Tear Up Erasures
19th-century Southampton: a glimpse from the Cope Collection
Transformation: Student Experience Directorate (SED) Summer Exhibition
Styling the Eighties: Ray Petri
Styling the Eighties: Simon Foxton
Turner Sims at 50: All for the Joy of Music
Nonsuch Memory Of My Birth Artists’ Books
Seeing Through Drawing: Observation, Record and Representation in Art and Science
“My day was not an idle one”: Lord Palmerston and the Broadlands Estate
A Passion for Collecting: Raymond Turley and the Isle of Wight
