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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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36th Annual Open Exhibition
2 December 2020 - 31 January 2021

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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.

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

36th Annual Open Exhibition ‘Best in Show’

Posted On // December 9, 2020 In // News

We’re excited to announce that the Annual Open 2020 Best in Show, selected by the artist Bedwyr Williams from over 900 entries, goes to Dominic Watson for his video, Fleshy Eaters. You can watch Dominic’s video above. Bedwyr has also selected eight

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

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'.

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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

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