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#32 ANNUAL OPEN, installation view (2016). Installation photograph by Damian Griffiths. Courtesy of the artists & CGP London.

Annual Open Exhibition 2022 Submission Guidelines

Online Submission Form 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

Circular pattern of varying stones section into triangles with a blue colour overlay
23 October 2022   //   Dilston Gallery

O Complex Mass // A Concrete Liturgy for Dilston Gallery
John Lawrence

Exhibition Open:  12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 4pm. Free, booking required.

When quiet, and uninhabited… do buildings dream? O Complex Mass is a new site-specific performance work by artist John Lawrence, with composer Stephen Crowe and experimental London-based choir Musarc, made in response to our historic Dilston Gallery and asks how a building

Extra session: Family Allotment Club on Friday afternoon!

28 October 2022 // Alexa Lowe, Laura Dee Milnes

Let’s celebrate the end of the growing season with an extra afternoon!  Join us on Friday 28th October 2022 in our beautiful garden to celebrate another successful season of our popular Allotment Club with Community Gardener Anne Gumuschian and Artist Associates Alexa

4–6 November 2022   //   Dilston Gallery

CHURCH / FACTORY
MA Fine Art students from Camberwell College of Arts

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

CHURCH / FACTORY brings together MA Fine Art students from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL across two sites, Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery and The Copeland Gallery, presenting an ambitious collection of work spanning sculpture, computational arts, photography, painting, drawing and printmaking.

Friday 9 & 10 September 2022 // Tickets £6   //   Dilston Gallery

LIFE IS SOFT (Work in Progress)
Martin Creed

Exhibition Open:  7pm

Join Martin Creed for the London debut of his award-winning LIFE IS SOFT, following its success at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Book your ticket via Eventbrite. LIFE IS SOFT Martin Creed, Turner prize-winning artist performer composer ‘Punk poet’ (The Guardian) anti-war warm-hearted

SENIORS ART SCHOOL PRESENTS… COLLECTIVE HISTORIES (ON ZOOM)

Friday 30 September & 7, 14, 21 October 2022 // Flora Duley

Take part in a series of online workshops exploring Southwark Parks online archives led by Associate Artist Flora Duley. You will research Collective Histories of a place and use this as inspiration for a series of postcard paintings and drawings that you

Seniors Art School presents… Virtual Atmospheres Celebration Event!

23 September 2022 // Flora Duley

Join us on Friday 23rd September, 3-5pm, for an afternoon of tea and cakes to celebrate Virtual Atmospheres! Virtual Atmospheres was a digital adventure throughout 2021, where a community of artists across London came together to create. From April to September, Artist

11 September – 9 October 2022   //   Lake Gallery

The Spirit of the Salters Lives On

Exhibition Open:  Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

Featured artists and contributors include: Eugene Ankomah // E.F. Ball // Paul Butler // Jane Deakin // Diane Gorvin // Nigel Moyce // Peter and Sue Rogers // Sarah Vaughan // Karin Wach and Leanne Werner This exhibition celebrates Ada (1866–1942) and

10 July–4 September 2022   //   Dilston Gallery

Before: Socialized, Circularized, Linearized, Artificialized, Corrupt Time
Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom

Preview:  Saturday 9 July // 3–6pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

Before: Socialized, Circularized, Linearized, Artificialized, Corrupt Time For his extensive new multimedia installation Before: Socialized, Circularized, Linearized, Artificialized, Corrupt Time Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom constructs an exhibition of four distinct chapters, producing an ever-evolving dialogue and curation of space. By alternating the different modes

10 July–4 September 2022   //   Lake Gallery

The High Life
Lydia Blakeley

Preview:  Saturday 9 July // 3–6pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

The High Life will be Lydia Blakeley’s largest solo exhibition in the UK presenting a series of paintings, painted sculptural sun loungers and cool box planters containing cacti and crystals. Taking the 1995 Microsoft advertising campaign ‘Where do you want to go today?’

A concrete deconsecrated church is filled with a carnivalesque sculptures on wheels, brightly coloured and are spot lit, casting shadows onto the concrete walls.
Thursday 16 June 2022   //   Dilston Gallery

Artist Talk with Candida Powell-Williams & Hettie Judah

Exhibition Open:  6.30-8pm // Free, booking required via Eventbrite (donations welcome)

Book Now via Eventbrite Join us on Thursday 16th June for an in-conversation between writer and critic Hettie Judah and Candida Powell Williams, from 6.30-8pm at our Dilston Gallery. Together we will explore Candida’s new exhibition Tilt Shift: Shadows of the Seasoned

Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole

FREE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Sat 11 & Sun 12 June, Sat 18 & Sun 19 June 2022 // 1 - 4 pm // Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole

Interested in photography? Are you 13-19 yrs and live in Southwark? Learn how to use a digital camera and take great photos with artist Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole. Diana will encourage you to experiment with your ideas and the camera, and give you professional

FREE Beatbox Course for Young People

Saturdays 16/23/30 July, Saturdays 13/20/27 August 2022 // 1 - 4pm each day // Conrad Murray

Interested in music? Are you 13-19 years old? Come and learn beatboxing this summer with acclaimed artist Conrad Murray.* What is beatbox? Beatbox is a musical style and technique based on the vocal imitation of percussion sounds. You will experiment with your

Five paintbrushes laid out one above the other made out of natural materials such as twigs and leaves on a white table. Left of the paintbrushes is a gestural painting in black using the paintbrushes on white paper.

Green shoots! Autumn Creative Ecology Family Workshops

25 - 29 October 2022 // Laura Dee Milnes, Anne Ogazi, Sheyamali Sudesh, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck

Enjoy a series of free art workshops at Dilston Gallery during Autumn half-term, with different activities each day and tailored to specific age groups. Explore nature in Southwark Park and make beautiful artwork. You will look at our local flora and fauna,

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