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
Jerwood Survey III
Jerwood Survey is a major biennial touring exhibition that presents new commissions by 10 early-career artists from across the UK, providing a distinctive snapshot of current concerns and approaches in the visual arts. Established in 2018, it responds to a vital need
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
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
Two Fold
RCA MA Print
The exhibiting artists in Lake Gallery are in the second year of their two-year MA program in Print at the Royal College of Art. Their work reflects the diversity of people and approaches which the course embraces. Print is seen as an
Family Allotment Club
Get your hands in the soil on Friday mornings! June – October 2023 Join us on Fridays in our beautiful garden. You can expect to grow and harvest food, do some planting, take care of seedlings that you can also grow at home,
Alter/Altar
Camberwell College of Arts Third Year BA Fine Art: Painting
Alter/Altar presents works by the graduating students of Camberwell College BA Painting degree at Southwark Park Galleries in January and February of 2023. Over one hundred emerging artists will participate in this two-week exhibition, which takes place simultaneously at the Lake Gallery
PIT
Camberwell College of Arts Third Year BA Fine Art: Drawing | Photography | Sculpture
The PIT is a little hard, a little bitter, a little sweet. It is a hole where you can find things. You can spit it out, or you can eat it whole. It can be deep or shallow. Empty and full. Presenting