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10 October - 3 November 2019   //   Lake Gallery

Re
A Bermondsey Artists' Group Exhibition

Preview:  Sunday 6 October // 3-6pm Exhibition Open:  Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am - 5pm

Caroline Gregory / Michele Fuirer / Natalie Webb / Charlie Fox / Louise Sheridan / Karin Wach / Cecilia Bentley Bortoluzzi / Caroline Areskog Jones / Jane Colling / Vivien Harland / Lisa Chang Lee / Kay Walsh / Jane Deakin /

RE: A Bermondsey Artists' Group Exhibition, (2019). Installation photograph by Damian Griffiths. Courtesy the artists and Southwark Park Galleries. 
Sunday 3 November 2019   //   Lake Gallery

Closing event //
RE: A Bermondsey Artists' Group Exhibition

Exhibition Open:  1-4pm

To mark the closing of, RE: A Bermondsey Artists’ Group Exhibition, join members from the Bermondsey Artists’ Group for an Artists’ Floor Talk as they discuss their practices and work in the exhibition followed by performances by Caroline Gregory and Richard Layzell.

Martians Blast Off! // Half-term art workshops for families

23, 24, & 25 October // 10-12pm & 1-3pm each day // Dilston Gallery // Free, drop-in

These fun workshops led by Fay Nicolson will blow your socks off. Make surreal landscapes and alien characters using collage, drawing 3D techniques and your own bodies! All in response to our Plastique Fantastique exhibition at Dilston Gallery. The morning sessions (10am-12pm)

Digital Drawing // Seniors Art School

In response to our Plastique Fantastique exhibition, artist Flora Duley leads a two-day workshop creating contemporary technologies and ways of communicating that include memes (images that are copied and spread rapidly by Internet users), gifs (animated images) and zines. You will develop

Thurs 10 Oct // 11am-2pm   //   Garden & Bothy

Stir to Fully Incorporate // Free Workshop
Holly Graham

A free oral history workshop led by artist Holly Graham, exploring local food-manufacturing heritage, and its impact further-afield. With a focus on favoured sweet treats, this three-hour session will include recipe-recording, story-telling, and a visit to Peek Freans Museum, which houses a

Research assembled in the Bermondsey Bothy, Southwark Park Galleries (2019). Image courtesy of the artist.
  //   Garden & Bothy

To Us It Just Looks Like A Lemon Research Online
Holly Graham

Holly Graham’s research for the commissioned project To Us It Just Looks Like A Lemon is now online, including audio documentation and recordings of interviews, threads of research generated and a reading list of the texts Holly used as part of her research. During her

Harvest Celebration & Gardening Session

Join us for our last gardening session of the season as we put the garden to bed for the winter. We will make fresh pesto from the basil collected in the garden and prepare the beds for the colder weather. There will

4 September - 5 October   //   Garden & Bothy

To Us It Just Looks Like a Lemon
Holly Graham

Drawing on recent research within her practice, and considering narratives surrounding the Mayflower’s journey across the Atlantic, artist Holly Graham will use her month at Southwark Park Galleries to explore how we can use food to trace migratory routes. Referred to as

Various children's drawings on paper completely covering the floor for Drawing Disco at Southwark Park Galleries. Two children surrounded by pens are drawing with Alexa Lowe crouched next to them and one child standing.

The Big Draw’s Drawing Space Disco!

The Drawing Disco is back! This time be inspired by planet Mars and our Plastique Fantastique exhibition, get musical and draw alien creatures and landscapes in response to different tunes and disco lights. This year’s The Big Draw Festival’s theme is Creativity

Toddler watering plants in an allotment garden using a gardening hose.

Family Drop-in Gardening Sessions

Our popular gardening sessions for families with pre-schoolers are back after a hiatus for August. Artist Gardener William Evans assisted by Alice Hattrick will lead weekly sessions in our beautiful garden, growing together. You can expect to grow and harvest food, do some

People and their dogs walking around Southwark Park Galleries, Lake Gallery that is a white walled space for the preview of DOG SHOW.
18 July - 8 September 2019   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

Dog Show
Contemporary Art. Chosen by Dogs. For Dogs and Humans.

Preview:  Sunday 14 July // 3-6pm Exhibition Open:  Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am - 5pm

For Dog Show, 15 cultured pooches who live with a variety of artists and curators have been invited to select their top dog-related artworks. With a little help from their human companions, these canine curators have selected artworks in what is believed

dogs heads collage Alexa Lowe

As Happy as a Dog with Two Tails // Summer Workshops for Families

Enjoy a series of free drop-in art workshops at Dilston Gallery during the summer holidays, with a different artist each week and activities tailored to specific age groups. Take part in an animal cabaret, make doggy dog collages, pose with dog toys/props

Dog Show Brian Catling

Free Dogs Trust Workshops for Families

Join Dogs Trust Education Officer, Kelly Craig, and become dog owners of the future! In this fun workshop, programmed at the tail end of the Dog Show, you will learn how to be safe around dogs and become a responsible dog owner. Enjoy some dog-themed creative activities and take away some useful and

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