Seniors Art School: The Exhibition
Running since 2012, Seniors Art School is a free annual programme of workshops that empowers people over the age of 55 to learn new artistic skills, share stories and develop their creative confidence. Working with contemporary artists, attendees participate in stimulating conversations
Gone to the dogs
Final-year BA Fine Art: Drawing, Photography, Sculpture and Computational Arts at Camberwell College of Arts
We’ve gone to the dogs You are real? Dogs are real too. Take me on a walk! Students from across Camberwell College of Arts’ Undergraduate Fine Art Programme have put together, “GONE TO THE DOGS”. Understanding that all the works spur from
Annual Open Exhibition 2023
Now in its 39th year, 2023’s Annual Open takes place both online and in our Lake Gallery. Each year a winning prize is awarded, generously donated by Breckman & Company. We are very excited to continue this year’s prize of £500 towards
Artist Flags // She is still alive!
Artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh was co-commissioned by Southwark Park Galleries and The Bower to create two new artworks for our public flagpoles in Southwark and Brunswick Park. Launched during Black History Month 2022, the work celebrates the life and work of Southwark resident
A Pluriversal Volume
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2023
Rupert Austin | Ilya Gurin-Babayeu | Mingda Bi | Elliot Buchanan | Anqi Deng | Reid Dudley Peirson | Weiqi Feng | Aliya Goldstone | Ben Harrison | Maxine Hayes | Jeremy Kent | Kezheng Li | Peiyang Li | Alberto De
A NEW KIND OF ANIMAL
Tim Spooner
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
Beyond These Walls There’s Courage
Tara White
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
The Rotherhithe Shed Exhibition
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
FACTUAL ACTUAL: Ensemble
Florence Peake
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
You throw shade on doorways
Lewis Greener
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
Echoes that Ripple Outwards
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2024
Writer Louise Gray draws attention to ‘echoes that ripple outwards’ when we narrate personal histories to attuned ears*. A ‘deeper-listening’ occurs, sensitive to bodies of all beings that have been pushed to the margins. A call to extend the senses appears as
School Outreach Ecology Sessions presents…Talking Plants // The Exhibition
Kristina Pulejkova
Talking Plants was a series of workshops led by Artist Associate Kristina Pulejkova with Year 4 students at John Donne Primary School in 2022. It used simple electronics, plants, sound, and storytelling to create an interactive piece of work that gave voice
Meera Shakti Osborne // department of Unruly histories
With Larena Amin // Kurds Don't Steal
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
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