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. The programme foregrounds artists who disrupt linear time, blur fact and
Jess Blandford // Tender
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
A—Z presents a night of performances and screenings at Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery
A—Z presents a night of performances and screenings, including live music and visuals, at Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery. Feat. A/C, Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali, Emily Pope and Tereza Kalousová Intercore by A/C A Western music video whose author plays the role
You Make Me Feel // curated by A—Z
Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali & Emily Pope
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
Pink! I Have The Power // With Bede Centre for Learning Disabilities
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
Family Allotment Club // June – October 2025
Family Allotment Club is back! Get your hands in the mud and get creative on Friday mornings! You can expect to grow and harvest food, do some planting, take care of seedlings that you can also grow at home, have fun exploring
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-making. Our professional Artist Associates spend two weeks in residency at
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
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 cancelled our planned formal dinner, and celebrated being together at Dilston Gallery on Friday 18 October with a wonderful fundraiser evening of live performances, an Art Raffle and more.
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