To celebrate our Birthday with more of our friends and neighbours – we have cancelled our planned formal dinner, and are looking forward to being together at Dilston Gallery on Friday 18 October with a wonderful fundraiser evening of live performances, an Art Raffle and more.

The Performance Night Includes:

  • Live Performances by artists Florence Peake, Anne Bean, Fani Parali and Patrick Cole
  • Peter Liversidge’s Gin Bar
  • Art Raffle Prize Draw : prizes include unique works generously donated by our alumni artists including Marcus Coates, our Founder Ron Henocq, Jonathan Baldock, Richard Wilson, Anne Bean, Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Fani Parali, Mark Titchner, Benedict Drew, Anne Ryan, Candida Powell-Williams and Rafal Zajko
  • SPG Merch Stand featuring new Limited Edition Prints commissioned specially for our 40th Anniversary by Fani Parali and Joy Labinjo and gallery merchandise
  • Paid Bars

40th Birthday Performance Fundraiser Night & Raffle
Dilston Gallery, Friday 18 October 2024
7-11pm
Tickets £15

Book now via Ticket Source

Buy Art Raffle Tickets

There are other ways to support us during our charity’s birthday year including:

We are a registered charity (No.1073851) and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (supported by ACE since 1999).

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 fellow local artists the Bermondsey Artists Group transformed the park’s derelict lido café into a free public gallery and art workshop. In 1999 we rescued the park’s derelict church, developing it into a world class exhibition and education space, Dilston Gallery.

Over 40 years we’ve proudly supported over 15,000 artists of all ages and backgrounds from across the world to create work including:

Carrie Mae Weems, Marcus Coates, Anne Bean, Richard Wilson, Ackroyd & Harvey, Cornelia Parker, Derek Jarman, Lydia Blakeley, Grayson Perry, Jonathan Baldock, Faisal Abdu’Allah, Mike Nelson, Florence Peake, Mat Collishaw, Bedwyr Williams, Brian Catling, Marcia Farquhar, Phyllida Barlow, Larry Achiampong, Hardeep Pandhal, Martin Creed, Joan Jonas, Hew Locke, Patrick Caulfield and Oona Grimes.

100% of our programmes and 65% of our core operations need to be fundraised on top of our ACE NPO grant every year via donations, grants, sponsorship, venue hire and shop sales.