You Make Me Feel // curated by A—Z
Guest curator A—Z (Anne Duffau) presents a group exhibition with three multidisciplinary artists: Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali and Emily Pope. In association with the 23rd edition of PAF Olomouc – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art 2024, the second iteration of
In Residence: Bede Centre for Learning Disabilities
Partnering with our local neighbours and heroes: the Bede Centre for those with learning disabilities, Southwark Park Galleries will host a series of weekly art workshops for Bede clients in our Dilston Gallery Parish Room overlooking the park. Over the course of
Green Shoots! Free Creative Family Workshops
Abigail Hunt & Alexa Lowe
Calling all families with children up to 11 years old… Our beloved programme of artist-led family workshops returns this Spring! Join Artist Associates Abigail Hunt and Alexa Lowe on the second Saturday of the month, from 10am to 1pm, to discover
Artists’ Film International 2025 // Dream States
Sin Wai Kin
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. Curated by Forma with 16 cultural institutions across four continents,
Art & Ecology School Residencies: The Exhibition
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 Betweens
Royal College of Art MA Print
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
Momentarily Here
BA Fine Art: third year students at Camberwell College of Arts
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
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
ANNUAL OPEN 2024
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
40th Birthday Performance Fundraiser Night & Raffle
To celebrate our Birthday with more of our friends and neighbours – we have cancelled our planned formal dinner, and are looking forward to being together at Dilston Gallery on Friday 18 October with a wonderful fundraiser evening of live performances, an
We Are Briefly Gorgeous
Joy Labinjo
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
To their fixed station, all in bright array
Kelly Large
To their fixed station, all in bright array is a public rehearsal of a performance for hands through the portals of the Bermondsey Bothy in Southwark Park Galleries’ garden. During her residency in the bothy throughout 2023, Kelly Large investigated the Anchorite
In the Temple of the Earth
Paul Purgas
Artist and musician Paul Purgas presents a new commission for Dilston Gallery, incorporating sound and materials gathered from the local park land to create an immersive installation, which builds on his ongoing research into the histories of design, music and spiritual philosophy
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