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We Are 40!

Free sound recording and composition workshop for Young People

Saturday 11 May & Sunday 12 May 2024, 2-5pm each day // Paul Purgas

Interested in sound recording and composition techniques? Are you 13-19 yrs and live in Southwark? Then this workshop is for you! Join artist and musician Paul Purgas to explore sound recording compositions and collage techniques realised through audio gathered within Southwark Park and the

6 April - 23 June 2024   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

Jerwood Survey III

Preview:  Preview 5 April // 6–8pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm

Jerwood Survey is a major biennial touring exhibition that presents new commissions by 10 early-career artists from across the UK, providing a distinctive snapshot of current concerns and approaches in the visual arts. Established in 2018, it responds to a vital need

Free Filter Faces workshop for Young People

Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 June, Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 June 2024, 11am-2pm each day // MV Brown

Interested in Augmented Reality? Are you 13-19 yrs and live in Southwark? Then this workshop is for you! Design your own augmented reality filter and transform the face of user-participants into hybrid human beings. During these 4 workshops with visual artist MV Brown,

FAMILY ALLOTMENT CLUB

June - October 2024 // Anne Gumuschian, Laura Dee Milnes

Get your hands in the soil on Friday mornings! June – October 2024 Join us on Fridays in our beautiful garden. You can expect to grow and harvest food, do some planting, take care of seedlings that you can also grow at home,

A figurative painting of a family of four in front of abstract green trees and grass landscape. On the left a woman looks and holds the arm of a small child in blue in the centre foreground. On the right man with a beard also in matching blue facing forward leans on his elbows on the ground with another child leaning over his shoulder and back with arms wrapped around his neck.
6 July - 29 September 2024   //   Lake Gallery

Joy Labinjo

Preview:  5 July // 6–8pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday // 11am - 5pm

For Southwark Park Galleries’ 40th anniversary programme, British-Nigerian painter Joy Labinjo will present a new body of work that celebrates our local community in her largest London institutional exhibition to date. Taking scenes from Southwark Park and the Bermondsey area as a

A abstract digital collage of images including hands sculpting pottery, circular forms of pots and lights in oranges, yellow and black tones.
6 July - 15 September 2024   //   Dilston Gallery

In the Temple of the Earth
Paul Purgas

Preview:  Friday 5 July // 6 - 8pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday // 11am - 5pm

Artist and musician Paul Purgas presents a new commission for Dilston Gallery, incorporating sound and materials gathered from the local park land to create an immersive installation, which builds on his ongoing research into the histories of design, music and spiritual philosophy

Three overlayed images; in the forground (right) on a square plywood plinth is a jagged digital turquoise sculpure made of fabric. In the background (right side) is a scrunched turquoise fabric and sequinned sculpture mounted on a white wall. As the background (left) is a swirling turquoise painting close up.
6 July - 25 August 2024   //   Lake Gallery

multiplying, flamboyantly
moa johansson

Preview:  Friday 5 July // 6 - 8pm Exhibition Open:  Lake Gallery, Salter Space | Wednesday - Friday // 11am - 5pm

Interdisciplinary artist, performer and winner of Southwark Park Galleries’ 2023 Annual Open moa johansson presents a sculptural conclusion of their project series the five flamboyant [     ] — in which five second hand dresses have been continually repurposed and reconfigured

We are 40!

Established in 1984, Southwark Park Galleries celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year; having proudly served the Bermondsey & Rotherhithe community for 4 decades.  We began in 1984 when our Founder Ron Henocq and local artists the Bermondsey Artists Group transformed the park’s

October 2022 - October 2023 // Outdoors Lake and Dilston Galleries   //   Public Art

Artist Flags // She is still alive!
Rosa-Johan Uddoh

Preview:  Sunday 23 October 2022 at 3pm

Artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh was co-commissioned by Southwark Park Galleries and The Bower to create two new artworks for our public flagpoles in Southwark and Brunswick Park. Launched during Black History Month 2022, the work celebrates the life and work of Southwark resident

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