Southwark Park Galleries

31/07/2026

Looking for free and fun things to do this summer holiday? Come and join in our family friendly workshops Green Shoots and Family Allotment Club!

Green Shoots now runs on select Wednesdays as well as Sundays.

No need to book, just drop by and get stuck in 🌱

02/07/2026

Put your suncream on and get your gardening gloves ready - Family Allotment Club is back on tomorrow, 3 July 10am-noon in our Lake Gallery Garden!

As always it’s completely free and there’s no need to book, just drop in anytime.

30/06/2026

This is your final week to see our Spring Programme exhibitions, which close on 5 July.

Emily Waszak: Ancestors, Lovers, Kin is in the main space at Lake Gallery.

The Art & Ecologies Schools Residencies exhibition: The Nature Worlds / The Koinobori is in the Salter Space at Lake Gallery.

Saelia Aparicio: A Joyful Parasite is at Dilston Gallery.

These exhibitions wouldn't be possible without the generous support of our partners and funders:
The Burton at Bideford ()
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art ()
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios ()
Culture Ireland ()
Foundation Foundation
The Paul & Louise Cooke Endowment
Henry Moore Foundation ()
Arts Council England ()
Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) ()
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
British Land

25/06/2026

Due to the red weather warning across London we are closing at 3.30 today, 25 June.

Family Allotment Club is cancelled and both our Lake and Dilston Galleries will be closed on 26 June.

This is for the wellbeing of our visitors and staff during this extreme heat.

We will be reopening on Saturday 27 June at 12.

We hope you all stay cool and hydrated.

18/06/2026

We are now in the final weeks of our Spring exhibitions which close on 5 July 🔔

Emily Waszak (.waszak.art): Ancestors, Lovers, Kin inhabits the Lake Gallery from Weds - Sun, 12-5pm.

This powerful installation is well worth a visit, so drop by before it’s gone.

Waszak was selected through an innovative open call initiative by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios () and Culture Ireland.

Generously supported by Culture Ireland (), the Paul & Louise Cooke Endowment, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and ACE.

10/06/2026

Family Allotment Club is having a break! We will be back on 26 June for more gardening fun 🌱

This means no Family Allotment Club on the 12 and 19 June.

In the meantime our gallery garden is always open for everyone, Weds - Sun, 12-5.

22/05/2026

Introducing the new Southwark Park Galleries’ Garden Range 🌱

Calling all budding gardeners - from first time dabblers to green-fingered experts! It makes no difference whether you have a balcony planter, a garden of your own or even just a plant pot on a windowsill - there is something here for you. 

Perhaps you’d like to start your own allotment with the Allotment Essentials Kit, or show the kids how to grow their own fruit with the Grow Your Own Wild Strawberries Kit and kids’ gardening gloves. You can even wear a piece of art whilst getting your hands dirty in the garden, thanks to Lydia Blakeley’s durable and colourful apron featuring her painting ‘Inner Light’. For those inevitable rainy days, we’ve also got mini greenhouse kits which are perfect for setting up indoors whilst still learning about the great outdoors. 

By supporting our garden range, you are actively funding our community programme Family Allotment club, a gardening club for local preschool children and their parents / carers.  

As a charity, we rely on your support in order to carry out the work we do, for free, always. 

At Southwark Park Galleries, we understand that access to green spaces in London is often rare, and there are barriers to face. We hope that with these tools and the funds raised by selling them, we can continue to invite more people of all ages and backgrounds to get stuck in, in their local park.

21/05/2026

Family Allotment Club is back!
Join us from 22 May to 20 November on Friday mornings, 10am-12pm.

Learn to garden on a Friday morning with our Community Gardener Anne Gumuschian and Associate Artist Laura Dee Milnes.

Drop-in between 10am-12pm, no booking required.
Sessions are free and welcome to all families and carers with pre-schoolers (0 – 5).

For more information, visit our website here:

Family Allotment Club is back! Join us from 22 May to 20 November on Friday mornings, 10am-12pm. Learn to garden on a Friday morning with our Community Gardener Anne Gumuschian and Associate Artist Laura Dee Milnes. Taking place in our beautiful Gallery

17/05/2026

Exhibition Spotlight: Kelly Large

Following her 2023 residency in our Bermondsey Bothy, Large delves into the curious history of the Anchorite tradition in this immersive installation, ‘To See More Brightly’

Step into the Lake Gallery Salter Space and be surrounded by paper hands, videos from Large’s Bothy performance and sculptural works by artists Carle Gent and Flora Parrott.

‘To See More Brightly’ is part of Large’s ongoing research into charisma as a social phenomenon. Her work portrays the medieval lore of anchoresses - charismatic mystics who were voluntarily and permanently enclosed in anchorholds - and how their practice was simultaneously one of control and resistance.

Kelly Large: To See More Brightly
On until 31 May 2026
Lake Gallery
Open Weds - Sun, 12-5pm

This exhibition is generously supported by the Paul & Louise Cooke Endowment, Arts Council England, and supported by Research at Central Saint Martins, UAL, and Papercutz.

Images:
1. Installation View: Carle Gent, Mixtape for Julian of Norwich (second shewing) (2022) part of To See More Brightly (2026) at Southwark Park Galleries © the artist. Photo © Mischa Haller
2. Installation View: Kelly Large, To See More Brightly (2026) at Southwark Park Galleries © the artist. Photo © Mischa Haller
3. Installation View: Flora Parrott, One Waterfall Floods Another (2024) part of To See More Brightly (2026) at Southwark Park Galleries © the artist. Photo © Mischa Haller

Image description:
1. A decorated cassette player and handwritten notes on a beige plastic table; below, rows of blue cassette tapes.
2. In the corner of a room with black carpet is a digital screen hanging portrait-style. On the screen are two hands gesturing out of a small window and a grey plant pot. The walls around the screen are covered in cut out black and white pictures of a hand with bright pink backing. A floor-based flat circular sculpture sits in the foreground. It is grey and lilac hues with images of eyes, noses and mouths on it.
3. A close up image of a floor-based flat circular sculpture. It is grey and lilac hues with images of eyes, noses and mouths on it.

07/05/2026

Green Shoots is back!

From Sunday 17 May, we invite families to make eco-friendly artworks in our community garden.

Join us every Sunday from 10-1pm for free, artist-led creative workshops for families with children up to 12 years old. No booking required, just drop in.

Green Shoots is delivered by artists with the environment at the core of their professional practice.

Embrace a love of nature, spark your creativity, and feel the wellbeing benefits of connecting with your local community in our beautiful garden setting.