In 2025 the ordinary becomes extraordinary at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery, with three exhibitions celebrating the uniqueness that can be found in the everyday.

They cover the art of bookbinding, an artistic great’s take on household items, and a collection of photographs charting rural life.

The first is Bound Together: Modern British Bookbinding, from February 18 until May 3.

It is an overview of the life and work of internationally renowned bookbinder Roger Powell OBE (1896-1990), who produced and worked on exquisite books out of his bindery in nearby Froxfield for five decades.

With rarely seen fine bindings by Powell and those connected with him, including Douglas Cockerell, William Matthews and Peter Waters, sourced from private collectors, plus 20 uniquely bound books by members of Designer Bookbinders, currently leading practitioners in the field, this exhibition will spotlight the artistry and techniques of a practice dating back thousands of years.

His mastery of the craft has meant that his legacy continues to this day, with editions bound by Powell still highly sought after, and his belief that a book is a three-dimensional object with design and parts all unified now an accepted understanding.

As well as featuring some of his great work, the exhibition will also explore the fascinating life of Powell, from his First World War service to an early foray into farming and his lifelong pursuit of beekeeping.

Next up is the work of Michael Craig-Martin, from May 20 until September 13.

One of the best-known artists of his generation, and also highly influential for the next, Michael Craig-Martin, born in 1941, has been celebrated worldwide for his conceptual artworks that are instantly recognisable.

The exhibition will display a selection of the artist’s prints that highlight his distinctive approach to depicting ordinary everyday items.

The Irish-born artist’s 1973 creation The Oak Tree continues to excite and provoke in equal measure, and as a Goldsmiths tutor he has been credited as helping foster the young British artists who were students at the time.

For the last 15 years Craig-Martin has been bringing bright and psychedelic colours to his exploration of the relationship between real objects and their depictions, highlighting the transitory nature of objects in 21st-century contemporary life.

The prints include depictions of headphones, lightbulbs and trainers, and invite the viewer to consider the transitory items that fill the world around us.

Rounding off the year will be Rediscovering the photographs of Winifred Joseph, 1917 to 1945, from September 30 until December 20.

It is an intimate and sprawling chronicle of artistic and rural life in the first half of the 20th century.

From the museum and art gallery’s archive, more than 1,000 negatives capture the life of an artistic circle in Petersfield between the two world wars.

They were taken mainly by Winifred Joseph (1894-1966) at the home of Dr Harry Roberts, an East End doctor whose house in Hampshire named Oakshott Hangers became a much-used country retreat from the capital.

Over the years architect Geoffrey Lupton, poet Edward Thomas, artist Flora Twort and a wide range of Petersfield residents came to the house.

Joseph documented it all, from daily life tending to horses and raising children, to playful pets. With 16 albums that have been carefully preserved, the exhibition will offer a unique glimpse into 20th-century rural life and the people who enriched it.