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Jerwood Survey III

We’re thrilled to announce that Southwark Park Galleries is partnering with Jerwood Arts, g39 in Cardiff, Site Gallery in Sheffield, and Collective in Edinburgh for the next iteration of Jerwood Survey. Jerwood Survey III is a major national touring exhibition that presents

2022 Programme Announcement

We can’t wait to share 2022 with you! Running parallel to the exhibition programme will be a series of free workshops for families and young people, Seniors Art School, Family Allotment Club and artist residences in our Bermondsey Bothy. Winter Camberwell College

We’re Recruiting // Deputy Director

Southwark Park Galleries is seeking a full time permanent Deputy Director. We are looking for an experienced individual to join our small, passionate gallery team. The Deputy Director is a senior member of the team at Southwark Park Galleries, supporting the Director

Two computer generated amorphous blobs on a black background
2 December–5 December 2021   //   Dilston Gallery

Festive Labour
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2021

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

Eman Abdellatif // Samm Anga // Mathias Arrignon // Claudio De Benedictis // Louise Le Du // Mengyuan Fu // Lara Geary // Zixiao Gong // Hye Yun Jeong // Nima Khademlou // Yushu Ma // Avery Rogers // Junchang Zhang Now

17 November–11 December 2021   //   Lake Gallery

37th Annual Open Exhibition

Preview:  Sunday 14 November // 1pm–4pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am–4pm

We are delighted to present the 37th Annual Open Exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, supported by Breckman & Company. The Annual Open Exhibition exists to encourage artists at all stages of their career to present work as part of a large scale

Watch // Sam Keogh, I Won’t Scatter Your Sorrow To The Heartless Sea, 2021

As part of the group exhibition Trouble in Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus at Southwark Park Galleries, 15 September – 31 October 2021, Sam Keogh’s performance ‘I Won’t Scatter Your Sorrow To The Heartless Sea’ loosely channels Southwark Park’s history as a

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Autumn Gathering // Sunday 31 October, 11am – 5pm

Join us in Southwark Park this Sunday, 31 October, for the last chance to see our Autumn exhibitions, live performances, an exhibition tour and the launch our new annual artists’ flag commission. All events are free and open to all, no booking required. Refreshments will

October 2021 - October 2022 // Outdoors outside both our galleries   //   Public Art

Artist Flags // Wampanoag Power and The British Dream
Habib Hajallie

As part of our Black History Month celebrations and in solidarity with Southwark Stands Together, we are pleased to launch the second in our annual series of flag commissions for Southwark Park by artist Habib Hajallie, supported by Omni Colour. Two flags

15–31 October 2021   //   Dilston Gallery

THE KNOT COMMONS
Rebecca Lennon

Preview:  Closing Event: Sunday 31 October, refreshments, live performances 11am–5pm (free, no booking required) Exhibition Open:  Friday // Saturday // Sunday, 11am–5pm

THE KNOT COMMONS is a new large-scale poly-vocal three channel video and surround sound composition with performance by Rebecca Lennon. It is the annual collaborative commission by Southwark Park Galleries and Matt’s Gallery created specially for Dilston Gallery. Originally planned for March

15 September – 31 October 2021   //   Lake Gallery

Trouble in Outer Heaven:
Portable Ops Plus

Preview:  Sunday 12 September // 2–5pm with a new covert performance by Sam Keogh at 4pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

Larry Achiampong, Joseph Buckley, Kitty Clark, Sam Keogh, Hardeep Pandhal, Adam Sinclair and Jamie Sutcliffe. Featuring The Diamond Dogs Educational Unit: Uma Breakdown, Petra Szemán, Larry Achiampong & Zara Truss Giles. Curated by Jamie Sutcliffe.  ‘Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus’

A computer animated black boy in a green spacesuit holding a shell up to their ear

The Diamond Dogs Educational Unit

Saturdays 25 Sept, 2, 9 & 23 Oct // 1-4pm each day // Dilston Gallery // Free Writing, Anime and Sound workshops for Young People

Ever been moved by a video game? Interested in game design and writing? Do you love cartoons? Are you 13-19 years old? To coincide with the exhibition ‘Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus’, this series of workshops draws upon the influence

Multiple vibrant ceramic and cement sculptures, paintings and three-dimensional cutouts by Anne Ryan on the altar of Dilston Gallery, a raw deconsecrated church.⠀

Podcast // Anne Ryan In Conversation with Charlotte Higgins

Recorded live as part of our events programme for Anne Ryan’s exhibition The City Rises at Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery. Author and journalist Charlotte Higgins joins artist Anne Ryan in conversation about her work. Anne Ryan is represented by Greengrassi. You can

28 July–19 September 2021   //   Dilston Gallery

The City Rises
Anne Ryan

Preview:  Sunday 25 July // 2–5pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

For her epic new installation created for Dilston Gallery’s vast concrete hall, London-based Irish artist Anne Ryan captures the sprawling dynamism of the city and its communities. Through her vibrant ceramic and cement sculptures, paintings and three-dimensional cutouts, Ryan’s observations, speculations and

Acrylic painting with heavy brush strokes of a faded sphere in the background on top of this are geometric vibrant blocks of colour; purple, orange and blues.
28 July - 29 August 2021   //   Lake Gallery

A Fine Day for Seeing //
Group exhibition presenting ten pairs of poets and artists

Preview:  Sunday 25 July // 2–5pm (Poetry readings 3–4pm) Exhibition Open:  Wednesday // Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday // 11am - 5pm

‘A Fine Day for Seeing’ takes its title from the New York School poet and curator Frank O’Hara, who bridged literary and artistic worlds in the late 1950s. In this spirit of collaboration between word and image, the exhibition presents ten pairs

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