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

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

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

A collage of overlapping landscapes such as forests, fields, and snowy mountains
Saturday 7 May 2022   //   Garden & Bothy

For us, to share // Recipe Book Launch

Exhibition Open:  2–5pm

For us, to share invites you to join our celebration; collect a recipe book, listen and add to a cooking playlist, and share your recipes and stories of home. Working with students from the Bosco Centre in Rotherhithe, over a series of

  //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery  //  Garden & Bothy

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

Multiple jesmonite cultural buildings in a line, lit with small street lights on a black trestle table.⠀
Saturday 10 July 2021   //   Lake Gallery

Bedwyr Williams’ Second Jab: Performance Event Afternoon

Exhibition Open:  2pm-6pm

Bedwyr Williams’ Second Jab: Performance Event Afternoon Saturday 10 July, 2pm-6pm Join artist Bedwyr Williams on the closing weekend of MILQUETOAST for a new reading-performance about encounters with architectural models – a recurrent theme of his exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries. Performances

RE: A Bermondsey Artists' Group Exhibition, (2019). Installation photograph by Damian Griffiths. Courtesy the artists and Southwark Park Galleries. 
Sunday 3 November 2019   //   Lake Gallery

Closing event //
RE: A Bermondsey Artists' Group Exhibition

Exhibition Open:  1-4pm

To mark the closing of, RE: A Bermondsey Artists’ Group Exhibition, join members from the Bermondsey Artists’ Group for an Artists’ Floor Talk as they discuss their practices and work in the exhibition followed by performances by Caroline Gregory and Richard Layzell.

Thurs 10 Oct // 11am-2pm   //   Garden & Bothy

Stir to Fully Incorporate // Free Workshop
Holly Graham

A free oral history workshop led by artist Holly Graham, exploring local food-manufacturing heritage, and its impact further-afield. With a focus on favoured sweet treats, this three-hour session will include recipe-recording, story-telling, and a visit to Peek Freans Museum, which houses a

12-14 September 2019   //   Dilston Gallery

Memorial
Patrick Cole

Exhibition Open:  Thursday // Friday // Saturday // 7-8.30pm

A memorial is an object that provides a focus for the memory or commemoration of something, usually a deceased person or a historical tragic event. Patrick Cole’s new work Memorial functions as a monument to a fictional tragic event that uses the traditions of

Saturday 31 August 2019 // 11am - 5pm   //   Dilston Gallery  //  Garden & Bothy

Day for Dogs

For the penultimate weekend of Dog Show, we invite you and your dogs to join us for a fun dog day. Artist Sally Muir, currently showing in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019,  will be doing live dog portraits in our Bermondsey

Richard Scott Free Queer Poetry Workshops
17 & 31 August 2019 // 10am-12pm // Bermondsey Bothy   //   Garden & Bothy

Free Queer Poetry Workshops
Richard Scott

Let’s take our sexualities for a walk! Join poet Richard Scott for free queer poetry workshops dealing with journeys, exploration and homo-psychogeography, as he walks from Southwark Park Galleries to Rotherhithe Village, Stave Hill Ecological Park and other evocative sites by the river Thames.

Jayne Parker - Almost Out (1985), UK, colour, sound, 90mins. Courtesy Jayne Parker and LUX, London

Jayne Parker, Almost Out (1985) screening at LUX

Jayne Parker, Almost Out (1985) Lux, Waterlow Park // Saturday 8 June, 6 – 8pm £5 // £3 ‘I feel that my mother is inside me. She is very happy. I want to push her out, gently, because I care for her and don’t