The Gallery at Winchester Discovery Centre

Reflect Land

Work by Louise Cattrell

15 January to 21 February

Louise Cattrell's work represents a place of imagination and fantasy combined with her direct experience of the natural landscape - be that the spectacular scale of the Swiss Alps, the coastline of Scotland, Ireland and France or, most recently the isolation of the Australian desert.

“Walk into a room hung with Louise Cattrell’s paintings and the visible world suddenly expands into infinity.

Her pictures glow on the wall like miraculous windows”. Laura Cumming

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Treasures of Hyde Abbey

6 March - 2 May
Founded for the burial of King Alfred the Great in 1110, Hyde Abbey grew to be one of the richest and most powerful monastic houses in the country.

Treasures of Hyde Abbey is the first event in a year of celebrations exploring the legacy of the abbey and celebrating the people and heritage of this well-loved Winchester ‘suburb’ of today. The exhibition will be colourful and interactive, giving visitors the opportunity to discover the scale of the abbey and some of the people who lived in and around it. It will bring together in one place for the first time in five centuries a selection of Late Saxon and medieval treasures from the abbey, loaned by national institutions including the British Library, the Bodleian Library and the V&A Museum.

Events

17 March, Re-discovering King Alfred
20 March, Conserving artefacts
24 March, The Architecture of Hyde - 1110-2012
27 March, Calligraphy demonstrations
6 April, Make and Take Gargoyles children's workshop
7 April, Two Books from Hyde Abbey-The Liber Vitae/Abbatiae
7 April, Calligraphy demonstrations
8 April, Make a Saxon Supper
10 April, Medieval Day
10 April, Medieval Make and Take
12 April, Michael O'Leary, story teller
13 April, Medieval Object Handling day
14 April, Calligraphy demonstrations
14 April, Make your own seals
15 April, Life and Death in Norman Hampshire
15 April, Make your own seals
16 April, Make your own time capsule
17 April, Finds identification day
21 April, Routine, Relics & Relatives: A Medieval Monastery
24 April, Conserving historic documents

Tours around the gallery

7 March, A closer look: The Liber Vitae
12 March, A closer look: The Liber Vitae
14 March, A closer look: The Hyde Breviary
19 March, A closer look: The Hyde Breviary
21 March, A closer look: The Liber de Monasterii de Hyda
26 March, A closer look: The Liber de Monasterii de Hyda
28 March, A closer look: The Hyde Abbey Muniments
9 April, A closer look: The Hyde Abbey Muniments
11 April, A closer look: The Liber Vitae
16 April, A closer look: The Liber Vitae
18 April, A closer look: The Liber de Monasterii de Hyda
23 April, A closer look: The Liber de Monasterii de Hyda
25 April A closer look: The Hyde Abbey Muniments

City Guides

13 March, Alfred's Final Journey
27 March, Hyde Monastic Life
8 April, Secrets of Hyde
17 April, Hyde - what happened after the monasteries?

Treasures of Hyde Abbey is supported by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Winchester City Council and is sponsored by Denplan, 3PB Barristers, Beachcroft solicitors and The Old Vine, Winchester.

Jon Burgerman

14 May – 11 July 2010
Jon Burgerman makes astonishing images, bursting with energy and imagination in his distinctive style. Working across a variety of media that includes drawing, painting, print, animation, large-scale murals and toy design, his art retains a hand-made, hand-drawn quality.

Burgerman works and exhibits internationally, with an enviable client list including the BBC, Pepsi, Sky, Sony and Kidrobot. You’ll have loved his quirky doodles on global products such as iPod and Apple laptop sleeves, or his animations on MTV. He has a phenomenal talent and a huge following and we cannot wait to see what he brings.

www.jonburgerman.com | www.burgerplex.com

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009

17 July – 12 September

Now in its 45th year, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is an international showcase for the very best nature photography. Winning a prize in one of its 17 categories has become the ultimate accolade.

A selection of the winning and commended images will be on display.
NB: tickets may need to be purchased for weekend visits. Please check the Winchester Discovery Centre website or call 01962 873603 for more information.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is owned by the Natural History Museum, London and BBC Wildlife Magazine.

Photo: Robert Friel (UK)

A special exhibition space designed to the highest security standards to allow us to display material from the most important galleries, museums and private collections in the country.

The programme includes treasures from national institutions, art works of famous contemporary artists and craftspeople, touring art and museum shows and much more.

Entry to our exhibitions is usually free, but some of them, because they are so special and expensive to mount, will have an admission charge. Exhibitions often have workshops, lectures and activities for adults and children.

View 360 degree panorama of The Gallery

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Gallery Exhibition policy 97kb pdf