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28 July–19 September 2021 // Dilston Gallery

The City Rises
Anne Ryan

Preview: Sunday 25 July // 2–5pm Exhibition Open: Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

For her epic new installation created for Dilston Gallery’s vast concrete hall, London-based Irish artist Anne Ryan captures the sprawling dynamism of the city and its communities. Through her vibrant ceramic and cement sculptures, paintings and three-dimensional cutouts, Ryan’s observations, speculations and

Acrylic painting with heavy brush strokes of a faded sphere in the background on top of this are geometric vibrant blocks of colour; purple, orange and blues.

28 July - 29 August 2021 // Lake Gallery

A Fine Day for Seeing //
Group exhibition presenting ten pairs of poets and artists

Preview: Sunday 25 July // 2–5pm (Poetry readings 3–4pm) Exhibition Open: Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am - 5pm

‘A Fine Day for Seeing’ takes its title from the New York School poet and curator Frank O’Hara, who bridged literary and artistic worlds in the late 1950s. In this spirit of collaboration between word and image, the exhibition presents ten pairs

Continuing to keep you and our team safe

Posted On // July 22, 2021 In // News

Please remember, stay at home if you’re feeling unwell with coronavirus symptoms, or have been in contact with someone who has coronavirus and you have been notified to self-isolate. As the government has set out how COVID restrictions will be relaxed in England

Ecology Kids! // Summer Family Workshops

10am-12pm under fives & 1-3pm 6-11yrs // 28 July, 4 August, 11 August, 25 August, 1 September 2021

Book your sessions now Enjoy a series of free art workshops at Dilston Gallery during the summer holidays, with different activities each week and tailored to specific age groups. Explore nature in Southwark Park and make beautiful artwork. You will look at

4-6 & 11-14 August // 11am-5pm // Garden & Bothy

Wampanoag Power
Habib Hajallie

The narrative of the pilgrims’ arrival and settlement from the UK to the United States is a historical retelling that omits the enslavement and brutality inflicted upon the native Wampanoag population in Massachusetts. Through the lens of racial empowerment, artist Habib Hajallie

Pre-schooler gardening with his mum in Southwark Park Galleries' Gallery Garden

Family Allotment Club

Every Friday until October 2021 // Two slots 10-10.45am and 11-11.45am

Join us every between 10am and 12pm in our beautiful garden, to grow together. You can expect to grow and harvest food, do some planting, take care of seedlings that you can also grow at home, have fun exploring bugs and get

Virtual Atmospheres // Seniors Art School

Online Zoom Sessions // Starting 16 April 2021, bi-monthly until September // 11am-1pm each session // Flora Duley

Go on a virtual adventure and create together our own atmospheres, distilling everyday happenings and moments into universal, global happenings. All from the comfort of your own home. Join artist Flora Duley in bi-monthly workshops over Zoom. In these sessions, we will

A burnt orange background with cut-out lemon shapes and text that reads: what looks to be a piece of fruit, with half a sour orange and a little burnt alum, expels all the putrescence and pus from the gums.

Launched 11 December 2020 // Public Art

Artist Flags // What Looks To Be A Piece Of Fruit & Loose Teeth And Stinking Breath
Holly Graham

We are proud to launch two newly commissioned flags in Southwark Park, by artist Holly Graham. The flags titled ‘What Looks To Be A Piece Of Fruit’ and ‘Loose Teeth And Stinking Breath’ form part of To Us It Just Looks Like

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