Two senior art students engage in a lino printing project, working together on a piece of paper at a table.

Seniors Art School // Lino Printing

Lino Printing: Exploring Southwark Park through Multi-Layered Print with Artist Associate Alexa Lowe Thursday 22 & Friday 23 May, 11am – 3pm Dilston Gallery Come experiment with the Lino printing method to create a composition inspired by Southwark Park. Starting with initial

A minimalist interior with pink walls, a white chair, and a tiled floor, featuring multiple doorways leading to bright light.
5 April - 29 June 2025   //   Lake Gallery

You Make Me Feel // curated by A—Z
Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali & Emily Pope

Preview:  Friday 4 April, 6-8pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm

Guest curator A—Z (Anne Duffau) presents a group exhibition with three multidisciplinary artists: Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali and Emily Pope. Relating to the theme of diaries and self narratives in all forms – including stories, notes, music, self-reflection, social networks and periodic

5 April – 11 May 2025   //   Lake Gallery

Art & Ecology School Residencies: The Exhibition

Preview:  4 April 2025, 1 - 3pm Exhibition Open:  Salter Space | Wednesday - Sunday, 12 – 5pm

This exhibition celebrates our public engagement work in local schools, a popular annual programme bringing free art sessions that address the themes of environment and climate change through the process of art. Our professional Artist Associates spend two weeks in residency at

In a lush green park, a white flagpole depicts a colourful flag of an oil painting of a reaching child.
July 2024 - July 2025 // Outdoors Lake Gallery   //   Public Art

ARTISTS FLAG // JOY LABINJO

For Southwark Park Galleries’ 40th anniversary annual public flagpole, Joy Labinjo has produced a new flag from her Lake Gallery body of work We Are Briefly Gorgeous (2024) that celebrates our local community in her largest London institutional exhibition to date. The

July 2024 - July 2025 // Outdoors Dilston Gallery   //   Public Art

ARTISTS FLAG // PAUL PURGAS

Artist and musician Paul Purgas presents one of Southwark Park Galleries’ annual public flagpole commissions, honouring our 40th birthday year and presented outside Dilston Gallery. A new commission, and created alongside his installation In the Temple of the Earth for Dilston Gallery, the

Black and white public park sign directing onwards in every direction by Marcia Farquhar
Launched 13 September 2018   //   Public Art

Onwards
Marcia Farquhar

‘Onwards’ was commissioned as part of Marcia Farquhar’s 2018 first ‘non-survey’ show DIFFIKUΛT. Much of her work makes frequent and subversive use of familiar cultural forms, ‘Onwards’ is no stranger to this leading us in five different directions with a single recurring

Launched 18 March 2018   //   Public Art

Nest Box Sculpture Trail // Questions & Answers (after Paul Celan)
Alec Finlay

In spring 2018, Southwark Park Galleries launched a new permanent nest box sculpture trail across the gallery’s park surroundings, by the Scottish artist and poet Alec Finlay. Download the trail map for free Watch // Park Wanderings (After Alec Finlay After Paul Celan)