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
Scroll through the gallery below to explore events and exhibitions currently taking place.
Seeing through Drawing : Observation, Record and Representation in Art & Science
Curated by WSA Fine Art students
On display at Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library
TYPE - MONO - TYPE
Printmaker Kate Dicker and visual poet Mark Rutter recently formed a collaboration to create monotype prints in response to Mark’s concrete poetry. These abstract prints interpret the words and layout of the poems and were created using a spontaneous approach that allowed these two artists to share the printmaking process.
On display in Winchester School of Art Library.
Special Collections Gallery, Level 4 in Hartley Library.
21 October-13 December 2024 and 13 January-18 April 2025, open weekdays from 10am to 4pm. Admission is free. Visitors may be asked for photographic ID at Library reception.
To mark the 240th anniversary of the birth of Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), Special Collections will be launching the “My day was not an idle one”: Lord Palmerston and the Broadlands Estate exhibition. It will look at aspects of the life of Lord Palmerston and of his much-loved Hampshire home Broadlands. Visitors will also gain an insight into the cultural tastes of those who resided at Broadlands.
We are excited to announce that we will also be providing curator tours to give visitors an opportunity to learn more about the items on display. There is no need to book, just turn up! You can learn about the curator tours here.
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Scroll through the gallery below to explore our upcoming events and exhibitions.
A Passion for Collecting: Raymond Turley and the Isle of Wight
An exhibition to celebrate Community History Month
On display at Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library
Spiritual Wellbeing: Urban meditation as encounters with universal spheres in Taiwan
Curated by Yu-Shan Tseng
On display at Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library
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