Never Say Never Again: Andrew Carnie
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- Nov 5
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Updated: Nov 17
From the early 1980s until the year 2000, the Winchester Gallery occupied the double-height space on the second floor of the WSA East Side building, now the BA Fine Art studio.
This exhibition revisits selected exhibitions programmed into that space and some from when the Gallery first moved into the current location. The exhibition comprises new or recent work by thirty solo exhibitors from the original programme, accompanied by fifteen gallery models housing installations from the same era. The exhibition revisits models of site-specific installations originally curated by John Gillett, who, from 1985 until 2008, was Director of The Winchester Gallery.
Andrew Carnie
Original exhibition 1992
Andrew taught at WSA for many years, on the foundation course, in Graphic Arts and in Fine Art, and took part in many Winchester Gallery exhibition projects during that time. His first solo show in The Winchester Gallery was an impressive array of suitcases, altered and caused to interact in various ways to evoke travel and travel destinations. The simple principle with which the show began was a sculpture that became its own means of transport. It was eminently possible to imagine a charming model of the show, which included bridges, towers and other architectural features, or a model that became or disappeared into a suitcase. But Andrew’s work since that early exhibition has been increasingly concerned with scientific understanding of the body, various imaging methods, and in particular the resonance between detailed human anatomy and dendritic (tree-like) forms. So the model gallery has been subject to a comparable investigation, reduced to a skeletal form using 3-D pens, and is integrated into a self-portrait which reveals or alludes to the inner systems of the human being. The suitcase survives only as a handle, slipping from grasp.
Exhibition 7th November 2025–10th January 2026
Christmas Closure, 23rd December–5th January
Tuesday–Friday, 12:00–18:00
Saturday, 12:00–16:00
30 new works by solo exhibitors from the early years of The Winchester Gallery and 15 gallery models -sculptures of site-specific installations
Curated by John Gillett
Andrew Carnie is an artist and academic at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University. His practice often involves a meaningful interaction with scientists. He is part of the Critical Practices Research team where his interests lie in exploring the self, through notions of hybridity, in organ transplantation and immunology. Other themes and ideas are often based on neurology, the brain, and how we get a sense of ourselves through scientific ideas, and images The work is often time-based in nature, involving slide dissolve systems or video projection onto complex screens. In darkened spaces layered images appear and disappear on suspended voiles, the developing display absorbing the viewer into an expanded sense of space and time through slowly unfolding narratives that evolve around them. His work has been exhibited at the Science Museum, London, Natural History Museum, Rotterdam, Design Museum, Zurich, Exit Art, in New York, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Great North Museum, Newcastle, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Dresden Hygiene Museum, Morevska Gallery, Brno, and the Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea amongst many others, most recently the Hatton Gallery and Vane, Newcastle.
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Read about the work at Catalogue.
See more work at the website: http://www.tram.ndo.co.uk/artworks.htm
At Axis web: http://www.axisweb.org/p/andrewcarnie
Current exhibitions and projects: http://andrewcarnieexhibtionsandstuff.blogspot.com/
Science and art blog: http://scienceandart--andrew-carnie.blogspot.com/
Optogenetics project: http://globaleyeartsoptogenetics.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine Heart project: http://www.andrewcarnie.org.uk/heart/index.html http://distributedbodies.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine
Neurology project: http://artandsciencethewintertree.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine http://theprojectedtree.blogspot.co.uk/
Website: http://www.andrewcarnie.co.uk
Archive of work: http://andrewcarnie.org.uk/archive/index.html
Supported by The Artists Agency: https://www.theartistsagency.co.uk/andrew-carnie/
All images: courtesy of the artist Andrew Carnie
Andrew Carnie Artists: Art: Art Work: Science: Art and Science: Science and Art: SciArt: Art Science: Drawing: Print: Photography: Installation: Video Art: Paint: Painting: Oil Painting: Paint Online: Watercolour Painting: Drawing: Sound Art: Sculpture: Modern Art: MOMA
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