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
Echoes that Ripple Outwards
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2024
Writer Louise Gray draws attention to ‘echoes that ripple outwards’ when we narrate personal histories to attuned ears*. A ‘deeper-listening’ occurs, sensitive to bodies of all beings that have been pushed to the margins. A call to extend the senses appears as
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
Hopperhead & Turbine Hall Swimming Pool
Richard Wilson
In 1985 Richard Wilson created Hopperheadat the Cafe Gallery (now Southwark Park Galleries’ Lake Gallery), next to the shallow end of the outdoor swimming pool in Southwark Park. With this work 21,000 gallons of water were pumped out of the pool and
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
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
Annual Open Exhibition 2022
Now in its 38th year, we are delighted to announce 2022’s Annual Open at Southwark Park Galleries taking place both online and in our Lake Gallery. Each year a ‘Best in Show’ prize is awarded, generously donated by Breckman & Company. We are
Noise Bodies
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2022
Sarah Birchall | Toby Boston | Wenyu Du | Jiajing He | Xiuling He | Timotej Kuhar Cernej | Maria Marshall | Xin Ni | Mike Olliston | Xinyu Pan | Finbar Prior | Beth Robertson | Elliot Somerfield | Minne Sun
Second Nature
Miko Veldkamp
‘Second Nature’ is the first UK institutional solo show of Suriname born Dutch-Indonesian painter Miko Veldkamp. Continuing his exploration on race, privilege and cross-cultural identity, Veldkamp has created a new body of large scale paintings where literal and symbolic references to disperse
O Complex Mass // A Concrete Liturgy for Dilston Gallery
John Lawrence
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