
Out there pt.1
Camberwell College of Arts // Final year BA Fine Art: Sculpture | Photography | Drawing
Camberwell College of Arts returns to Southwark Park Galleries with their final year Fine Art student exhibition ‘Out There’; a two-part exhibition featuring Camberwell’s Fine Art: Sculpture, Photography & Drawing over two weekends presented across both Dilston Gallery and Lake Gallery. Exhibiting

Festive Labour
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2021
Eman Abdellatif // Samm Anga // Mathias Arrignon // Claudio De Benedictis // Louise Le Du // Mengyuan Fu // Lara Geary // Zixiao Gong // Hye Yun Jeong // Nima Khademlou // Yushu Ma // Avery Rogers // Junchang Zhang Now

37th Annual Open Exhibition
We are delighted to present the 37th Annual Open Exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, supported by Breckman & Company. The Annual Open Exhibition exists to encourage artists at all stages of their career to present work as part of a large scale

Autumn Gathering // Sunday 31 October, 11am – 5pm
Join us in Southwark Park this Sunday, 31 October, for the last chance to see our Autumn exhibitions, live performances, an exhibition tour and the launch our new annual artists’ flag commission. All events are free and open to all, no booking required. Refreshments will

Artist Flags // Wampanoag Power and The British Dream
Habib Hajallie
As part of our Black History Month celebrations and in solidarity with Southwark Stands Together, we are pleased to launch the second in our annual series of flag commissions for Southwark Park by artist Habib Hajallie, supported by Omni Colour. Two flags

THE KNOT COMMONS
Rebecca Lennon
THE KNOT COMMONS is a new large-scale poly-vocal three channel video and surround sound composition with performance by Rebecca Lennon. It is the annual collaborative commission by Southwark Park Galleries and Matt’s Gallery created specially for Dilston Gallery. Originally planned for March

Trouble in Outer Heaven:
Portable Ops Plus
Larry Achiampong, Joseph Buckley, Kitty Clark, Sam Keogh, Hardeep Pandhal, Adam Sinclair and Jamie Sutcliffe. Featuring The Diamond Dogs Educational Unit: Uma Breakdown, Petra Szemán, Larry Achiampong & Zara Truss Giles. Curated by Jamie Sutcliffe. ‘Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus’

The City Rises
Anne Ryan
For her epic new installation created for Dilston Gallery’s vast concrete hall, London-based Irish artist Anne Ryan captures the sprawling dynamism of the city and its communities. Through her vibrant ceramic and cement sculptures, paintings and three-dimensional cutouts, Ryan’s observations, speculations and

A Fine Day for Seeing //
Group exhibition presenting ten pairs of poets and artists
‘A Fine Day for Seeing’ takes its title from the New York School poet and curator Frank O’Hara, who bridged literary and artistic worlds in the late 1950s. In this spirit of collaboration between word and image, the exhibition presents ten pairs

MILQUETOAST
Bedwyr Williams
This major new exhibition by Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams interrogates and satirises the role of cultural establishments within contemporary society. Via sculpture, video, painting and drawing, Williams parodies the often fetishistic architectural motifs and bureaucratic hierarchies appropriated within the culture sector and

Bermondsey Bothy
In 2018 we launched our Bermondsey Bothy, a permanent outdoor art workshop and residency site built by Scottish artist Bobby Niven (co-founder, Bothy Project) to host a Residency Programme for artists. This programme provides a unique environment in which we can support their development by providing

Wampanoag Power
Habib Hajallie
The narrative of the pilgrims’ arrival and settlement from the UK to the United States is a historical retelling that omits the enslavement and brutality inflicted upon the native Wampanoag population in Massachusetts. Through the lens of racial empowerment, artist Habib Hajallie

Bedwyr Williams’ Second Jab: Performance Event Afternoon
Bedwyr Williams’ Second Jab: Performance Event Afternoon Saturday 10 July, 2pm-6pm Join artist Bedwyr Williams on the closing weekend of MILQUETOAST for a new reading-performance about encounters with architectural models – a recurrent theme of his exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries. Performances

The Noise of the Mayflower
Radio Anti
The Noise of the Mayflower is a piece of aural research about the Mayflower crossing in 1620, an event whose historical ‘signals’ are still heard today in discussions about colonialism and national identity. But what about noise? Can we still hear the