Game Changers: the exhibition charting the evolution of game design

Games and play are taking over London’s Somerset House this April, as the gallery runs a new month-long exhibition called Game Changers: Another Way to Play.

Using three famous games as its focal point – chess, billiards and mazes – the exhibition displays imaginative new works inspired by these traditional methods of play.

We visited Somerset House on the opening day of the exhibition – which ran alongside a weekend-long festival called Now Play This held in the gallery’s New Wing – and spoke to its director Holly Gramazio and producer Sophie Sampson of West Sussex game design studio, Matheson Marcault.

Now Play This ran from 7-9 April, and Game Changers: Another Way to Play runs until 7 May at Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA.