19 July - 21 September 2025   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

Artists’ Film International 2025 // Dream States
Sin Wai Kin

Preview:  18 July, 6 - 8pm 2025 Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday, 12–5pm

Dream States — the 18th edition of Artists’ Film International — explores dreaming as both a transformative state and a radical act, challenging perceptions of reality and opening pathways to alternative futures. The programme foregrounds artists who disrupt linear time, blur fact and

Abstract Acrylic and Oil painting on a diptych canvas framed together
19 July - 21 September 2025   //   Lake Gallery

Jess Blandford // Tender

Preview:  Friday 18 July, 6–8pm Exhibition Open:  Salter Space | Wednesday - Sunday, 12–5pm

Abstract painter and winner of Southwark Park Galleries’ 2024 Annual Open Jess Blandford presents a series of small, intimate works alongside a new site-specific installation, where unruly paintings spill onto the gallery wall. Using colour, erasure and layered marks, Blandford reflects on

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

A collage features colorful drawings of faces, figures, and animals alongside bold text reading “PINK I HAVE THE POWER” and the date "5-26-2025" in handwritten letters.
21 May - 29 June 2025   //   Lake Gallery

Pink! I Have The Power // With Bede Centre for Learning Disabilities

Preview:  Wednesday 21 May 2025, 2 - 4pm Exhibition Open:  Salter Space, Wednesday - Sunday, 12–5pm

Pink! I Have The Power presents the dynamic work of our neighbouring artists at the Bede Centre, focused on the theme of alter egos. Made during weekly workshops held at Dilston Gallery in February – May 2025, the artists have envisioned powerful

Open scrapbook showing two colorful tree paintings. Left page depicts a tree with pink and blue foliage on a gradient background. Right page shows a tree with red and green foliage against a green background. Text below each image.
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-making. Our professional Artist Associates spend two weeks in residency at

22–23 February 2025   //   Lake Gallery

In Betweens
Royal College of Art MA Print

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

An exhibition of work in progress by students studying MA Print at the Royal College of Art. Printing is, at its core, a gesture of transfer and translation. It occupies the liminal space between surfaces, where the image is neither wholly original

Part one: 1 - 2 February 2025 | Part Two: 8 - 9 February 2025   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

Momentarily Here
BA Fine Art: third year students at Camberwell College of Arts

Exhibition Open:  Saturday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm

Southwark Park Galleries proudly presents Momentarily Here, a two – part exhibition by third-year students from the Drawing, Photography, Sculpture, and Computational Arts pathways at the Camberwell College of Art (University of the Arts London). This exhibition marks the culmination of two and

black and white diffused screen print of a painters pallet and mucky hands
Part one: 18-19 January 2025 | Part two: 25-26 January 2025   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

WHAT NOW
BA Fine Art: Painting third year students at Camberwell College of Arts

BA Fine Art: Painting third year students at Camberwell College of Arts are proud to present WHAT NOW, a two-part exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries. WHAT NOW speaks not only to the uncertainty that faces all the students as they near the

2 November - 14 December 2024   //   Lake Gallery

ANNUAL OPEN 2024

Preview:  Preview: Saturday 2 November 1 - 4pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm

Established the same year as the gallery in 1984, our Annual Open has been a rare opportunity for all artists at any stage of their career to submit work without a selection criteria, making it London’s longest-running open and democratic exhibition. Each

A figurative painting of a family of four in front of abstract green trees and grass landscape. On the left a woman looks and holds the arm of a small child in blue in the centre foreground. On the right man with a beard also in matching blue facing forward leans on his elbows on the ground with another child leaning over his shoulder and back with arms wrapped around his neck.
6 July - 29 September 2024   //   Lake Gallery

We Are Briefly Gorgeous
Joy Labinjo

Preview:  5 July // 6–8pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday - Sunday // 12pm - 5pm

For Southwark Park Galleries’ 40th anniversary programme, British-Nigerian painter Joy Labinjo will present a new body of work that celebrates our local community in her largest London institutional exhibition to date. Taking scenes from Southwark Park and the Bermondsey area as a

6 April - 23 June 2024   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

Jerwood Survey III

Preview:  Preview 5 April // 6–8pm

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

13 September 2024   //   Lake Gallery

Joy Labinjo: Monograph Book Launch

Exhibition Open:  6-8pm

You are cordially invited to the book launch with artist Joy Labinjo and contributors at Southwark Park Galleries, Lake Gallery, 13 September 2024, 6-8pm The event will include a drinks reception, and the publication will be available to purchase for the special

Close up image of a four small bright artworks mounted on a white wall. Each is a twisted fabric sculpture on a small white wall shelf in different colours, from left to right: Burnt orange; turquoise; red with gold sequins; and royal blue and mauve.
6 July - 25 August 2024   //   Lake Gallery

multiplying, flamboyantly
moa johansson

Preview:  Friday 5 July // 6 - 8pm Exhibition Open:  Lake Gallery, Salter Space | Wednesday - Friday // 11am - 5pm

Interdisciplinary artist, performer and winner of Southwark Park Galleries’ 2023 Annual Open moa johansson presents a sculptural conclusion of their project series the five flamboyant [     ] — in which five second hand dresses have been continually repurposed and reconfigured

24–25 February 2024   //   Lake Gallery

Out of Thin Air
The Royal College of Art MA Print

Preview:  Saturday 24 February // 2–5pm Exhibition Open:  Saturday // Sunday // 11am–5pm

The Royal College of Art MA Print students present Out of Thin Air, a group exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, Lake Gallery. This showcase offers a glimpse into the print artists’ collective journey as they navigate new approaches to practice midway through