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15 July-24 September 2023   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

A NEW KIND OF ANIMAL
Tim Spooner

Preview:  14 July // 6-8pm Exhibition Open:  Lake Gallery: Wednesday - Sunday, 11am–5pm // Dilston Gallery: Saturday - Sunday, 11am–5pm

In summer, Southwark Park Galleries will present an extensive installation by multidisciplinary artist Tim Spooner for his largest UK solo exhibition in a visual arts organisation. Spooner has been creating immersive sculptural interventions and performances since 2010, which have been predominantly experienced

18 August – 3 September 2023 // Salter Space   //   Lake Gallery

The Rotherhithe Shed Exhibition

Preview:  Thursday 17 August // 3–5pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday // 11am–5pm

This year our neighbours the London Bubble Theatre are celebrating 10 years of their Older Adults’ Programme including The Rotherhithe Shed, a partnership project with Time & Talents. The Rotherhithe Shed opens its doors twice weekly and provides a fully equipped workshop

Green Shoots! Free Creative Summer Family Workshops

2 - 31 August 2023 // Abigail Hunt, Anne Ogazi

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. Discover our local flora and fauna, make eco-friendly artworks and become ecology buffs! Workshops are held at

A floor to ceiling painting of colourful abstracted body outlines.
16 APRIL – 2 JULY 2023   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

FACTUAL ACTUAL: Ensemble
Florence Peake

Preview:  Saturday 15 April // 12-5pm Exhibition Open:  Lake Gallery: Wednesday - Sunday, 11am–5pm // Dilston Gallery: Saturday - Sunday, 11am–5pm

Southwark Park Galleries’ 2023 exhibition programme will launch this spring with a new immersive and performative installation by internationally renowned choreographer and visual artist Florence Peake. Enveloping both our galleries, Peake’s major solo commission will present a body of monumental paintings using

Performers perform falling motions in the middle of a church building. Audience members stand by the walls to watch.

Listen // Florence Peake in Conversation with Louisa Buck

Recorded live as part of our events programme for Florence Peake’s exhibition FACTUAL ACTUAL: Ensemble at Southwark Park Galleries. Art writer and critic, Louisa Buck joins artist Florence Peake in-conversation. Recorded Thursday 18 May 2023 You can subscribe and listen to Southwark Park

27 May - 2 July 2023 // Salter Space   //   Lake Gallery

You throw shade on doorways
Lewis Greener

Preview:  27 May // 3-5pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday // 11am–5pm

Artist and youth worker Lewis Greener, who was selected as the winner out of 220 artists’ submissions for our 38th Annual Open in 2022, presents a series of recent 35mm photographic works and an 8mm film documenting the rapid and often brutal

Seniors Art School // Botanical Drawing

Wednesday 19 & Thursday 20 July, 11am - 3pm each day // With Queer Botany

We are proud to announce Queer Botany will host a botanical drawing session focusing on queerness and nature as part of our Seniors Art School 2023 season. Led by designer and illustrator Edward Luke Thrush, the workshops will create a space for

A colourful floor to ceiling painting covers the walls of a gallery space, in one corner the unstretched canvas drapes onto the floor.

Seniors Art School presents…Factual Actual: Ensemble // The Workshop

Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 May 2023 // Florence Peake // 11am – 3pm // Dilston Gallery

Southwark Park Galleries’ 2023 exhibition programme has launched this spring with a new immersive and performative installation by internationally renowned choreographer and visual artist Florence Peake. We are proud to announce that Florence Peake will open the Seniors Art School 2023 season

15 April–25 May 2023   //   Lake Gallery

Meera Shakti Osborne // department of Unruly histories
With Larena Amin // Kurds Don't Steal

Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday // 11am–5pm

department of Unruly histories is an artwork produced by Meera Shakti Osborne consisting of a collective sonic and material archive built on post-colonial migration stories in London. In conjunction with an exhibition at Cubitt Artists, ten audio pieces are installed in various

9–24 September 2023   //   Lake Gallery

Beyond These Walls There’s Courage
Tara White

Preview:  Friday 8 September // 5–7pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday – Sunday // 11am–5pm

Beyond These Walls There’s Courage tenderly maps the entangled dynamics between grief, intergenerational relationships, gender and protest. Operating in the overlaps between these frames of experience, Tara White uses the Anjili Ironwood Tree and Saffron Crocuses as botanical motifs to anchor their

Seniors Art School presents … CUTS AND FOLDS: INFINITE PATTERNS

6 - 27 October 2023 // With sculptor Flora Duley

‘Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music’ – Goethe Join Artist Associate Flora Duley in this series of digital workshops on Zoom as part of our popular Seniors Art School. Using just paper and cardboard, you will be introduced to proportion

Topographic map of Southwark Park with the text To Be Here With You on top.
22, 23, 29, 30 April, 2–4pm & 5 May, 11–1pm // Free   //   Lake Gallery

To Be Here With You

To Be Here With You embraces practices of ritual to create a space of shared knowledge, gentle hospitality and open collectivity. Situated at Southwark Park Galleries and engaging with the surrounding park, the project consists of five free workshops. Artists have been

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