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Author Archives: Southwark Park Galleries

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

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

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

A black and white analogue image of the sculptural artwork Hopper Head by Richard Wilson through a grated window.
1985   //   Lake Gallery

Hopperhead & Turbine Hall Swimming Pool
Richard Wilson

In 1985 Richard Wilson created Hopperheadat the Cafe Gallery (now Southwark Park Galleries’ Lake Gallery), next to the shallow end of the outdoor swimming pool in Southwark Park. With this work 21,000 gallons of water were pumped out of the pool and

25-26 March 2023   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

Two Fold
RCA MA Print

Preview:  Closing event: Sunday 26 March // 2–5pm Exhibition Open:  Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

The exhibiting artists in Lake Gallery are in the second year of their two-year MA program in Print at the Royal College of Art. Their work reflects the diversity of people and approaches which the course embraces. Print is seen as an

A performance of two women atop two large metal podiums, which move on tracks that run down the side perimeter of Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery (a deconsecrated church). The performers are wearing modroc chest pieces with black painted hands and grey faces lipsynching to a soundtrack, gesturing singing and howling motions.

We’re Recruiting // Front of House

Southwark Park Galleries is an interdisciplinary arts organisation set across two distinctive venues – including a Grade II Listed deconsecrated church and purpose built art gallery – and a community garden in the heart of Southwark Park, southeast London. Through our locally

Family Allotment Club

June - October 2023

Get your hands in the soil on Friday mornings! June – October 2023 Join us on Fridays in our beautiful garden. You can expect to grow and harvest food, do some planting, take care of seedlings that you can also grow at home,

PT1: 28–29 January // PT2: 4–5 February 2023   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

Alter/Altar
Camberwell College of Arts Third Year BA Fine Art: Painting

Exhibition Open:  Saturday // Sunday // 11am–4pm

Alter/Altar presents works by the graduating students of Camberwell College BA Painting degree at Southwark Park Galleries in January and February of 2023. Over one hundred emerging artists will participate in this two-week exhibition, which takes place simultaneously at the Lake Gallery

Chapter 1: 14–15 January // Chapter 2: 21–22 January 2023   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

PIT
Camberwell College of Arts Third Year BA Fine Art: Drawing | Photography | Sculpture

Exhibition Open:  Saturday // Sunday // 11am–4pm

The PIT is a little hard, a little bitter, a little sweet. It is a hole where you can find things. You can spit it out, or you can eat it whole. It can be deep or shallow. Empty and full. Presenting

13 November - 3 December 2022   //   Lake Gallery

Annual Open Exhibition 2022

Preview:  Sat 12 Nov // 1 - 4pm | Closing Event // Sat 3 Dec, 1 - 4pm (Best in Show Announcement) Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm

Now in its 38th year, we are delighted to announce 2022’s Annual Open at Southwark Park Galleries taking place both online and in our Lake Gallery. Each year a ‘Best in Show’ prize is awarded, generously donated by Breckman & Company. We are

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

1 December–4 December 2022   //   Dilston Gallery

Noise Bodies
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2022

Exhibition Open:  Friday // Saturday // Sunday, 11am–4pm

Sarah Birchall | Toby Boston | Wenyu Du | Jiajing He | Xiuling He | Timotej Kuhar Cernej | Maria Marshall | Xin Ni | Mike Olliston | Xinyu Pan | Finbar Prior | Beth Robertson | Elliot Somerfield | Minne Sun

Wreath-Making Workshop with L’Appartement

Saturday 26 November 2022 // 11am - 1pm // £30 per person, with limited places available

Join us at our Dilston Gallery with L’Appartement plant studio to create your own personalised wreath to take home for the festive season. L’Appartement will teach you about the history of wreaths, then step by step you will learn how to create

Florence Peake: Reckonings and Imaginings // Free Workshops

Tuesday 22, Thursday 24, Friday 25 November 2022 // 11am - 12.30pm // DILSTON GALLERY // Florence Peake

Be part of a collective new body of work by leading artist Florence Peake. Book via Eventbrite Southwark Park Galleries is commissioning Florence Peake to create a new body of interdisciplinary performance, live sound and visual art works. This work will re-interpret

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