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Visit the 36th Annual Open Exhibition

Southwark Park Galleries manages Lake Gallery and Dilston Gallery in Southwark Park, Bermondsey, London SE16. Southwark Park is approximately 7 minutes walk from Canada Water station which is on the Jubilee and Overground (Highbury & Islington to Croydon) Lines or Surrey Quays is 6 minutes walk to The Gallery, Surrey Quays is on the London Overground Line. Buses travelling to Canada Water: 1, 47, 188, 199, 225, 381, 395, P12, C10.

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Lake Gallery

FANI PARALI // THE MINDERS OF THE WARM
Lake Gallery // Thursday 10 – Sunday 13 December, 11am – 4pm

Face masks mandatory and no booking required, but we are limiting capacity to allow for safe social distancing.

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Dilston Gallery

FANI PARALI // AONYX and DREPAN
Dilston Gallery // 11, 12, 13 December 2020 11-3pm

Booking essential.

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What's on // Lake Gallery // Dilston Gallery

Fani Parali Short-clawed, Long-clawed, 2020

10 October - 13 December 2020 // Lake Gallery // Dilston Gallery

LAST CHANCE TO SEE: AONYX and DREPAN & THE MINDERS OF THE WARM
Fani Parali

Exhibition Open: Thursday - Sunday 11-4pm (Performances Fri-Sun only)

Exhibition: THE MINDERS OF THE WARM 10 October – 13 December 2020 Lake Gallery // Thursday 10 – Sunday 13 December, 11am – 4pm Face masks mandatory and no booking required, but we are limiting capacity to allow for safe social distancing.

Indian ink watercolour painting of a rainbow on paper

2 December 2020, 3pm - 31 January 2021, 5pm // Lake Gallery

36th Annual Open Exhibition

Preview: Wednesday 2 December // 3pm Instagram Live Exhibition Open: Online

To navigate the Moving Image playlist above please click on the three horizontal lines in the top right corner to switch between artworks. View 2D & 3D artworks in the 36th Annual Open Exhibition This much-loved show usually receives around 250 entries

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.

// Public Art

Flag Commission // 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

A pink background with two headless line drawn people, one is kicking the other in the arse. Text in black around the illustration reads 'Arse Kicking Session for British Artists Who Say Ass'

New Limited Edition by Bedwyr Williams

Posted On // October 15, 2020 In // News

NEW LIMITED EDITION Bedwyr Williams // Arse Kicking Session for British Artists Who Say Ass (2020). Buy now from our online shop. Bedwyr Williams, whose exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries is postponed due to Covid-19 to Spring 2021, has been helping us

// Garden & Bothy

Listen // Woman Peeling Turnips; A Portrait of my Father

Richard Scott’s ‘Woman Peeling Turnips; A Portrait of my Father’ is the result of the poet’s residency at Southwark Park Galleries in August 2019, Queer Pilgrims. This new text forms a poetic investigation into ekphrasis*, father-figures and the violence of creation. Using Chardin’s 1738

Silhouettes of birds flying in white on a dark blue background.

Big Draw Festival 2020

// Downloadable Digital Packs on the Environment

This year The Big Draw Festival theme is Climate of Change. Southwark Park Galleries’ location in Southwark Park means we are connected to the local flora and fauna that exists here, some of which is endangered, and pushes us to develop creative

A magazine cutting with the title 'The British Empire' in blue print, in the left-hand corner and a 1823 painted scene of men in Barbados pushing barrels of sugar and rum on the shore, ready to be shipped to England. In the left-hand corner, a paragraph in small print reads: 'Barrels of sugar and rum, brought in carts from the remote plantations to the nearest beach, are rolled in dinghies and rowed out to lighters moored in the shallow water. These small boats took their cargoes round the coast to the island's two ports, where deep-draught merchantmen awaited them. There, the barrels were stowed for the last leg of their journey to England, where the agents of the plantation-owners sold the contents'.

// Garden & Bothy

Listen // To Us It Just Looks Like A Lemon
Holly Graham

To Us It Just Looks Like A Lemon is a collection of reflections on the Mayflower and other colonial strategies, and is the outcome of Holly Graham‘s residency at Southwark Park Galleries in 2019. Pulling together her ongoing research into histories and legacies

A horizon where the sea meets the sky with an overlay of three figures, which are the same dancer Bethan Kendrick, overlapping each other in front of a background that resembles sand dunes. The right-hand side character has their arms raised, central has their back facing viewer, while the other is side on.

11 September 2020 - Ongoing // Garden & Bothy

Watch // Park Wanderings (after Alec Finlay after Paul Celan) // A Trilogy of Short Films by Corali and Impermanence

Created by dance companies Corali and Impermanence, with designer Pam Tait and musician Andy Balcon, ‘Park Wanderings’ is a poetic response to Southwark Park and Alec Finlay’s permanent nest box trail, ‘Questions and Answers, (after Paul Celan)’, commissioned by Southwark Park Galleries

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