Southwark Park Galleries

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.

01/05/2026

Join us on Saturday 16 May from 12.30 for an afternoon expanding on Kelly Large’s exhibition To See More Brightly.

The event includes two screenings of Anchoress (dir. Chris Newby, 1993), a film which inspired Large's early research, alongside a talk with the 3 exhibiting artists: Kelly Large, Flora Parrott and Carle Gent moderated by Southwark Park Galleries Director Judith Carlton.

Book your free tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-see-more-brightly-a-shewing-tickets-1988470430586

This event is generously supported by Research from Central Saint Martin's, UAL. Thanks to BFI, London.

Join us for an afternoon expanding on Kelly Large’s exhibition To See More Brightly.

10/03/2026

Join us next week for Seniors Art School: Open Studio, Monday 16 – Tuesday 17 March, 11am – 3pm at Dilston Gallery.

Open Studio invites members of the public into a Seniors Art School session to meet participants, see what we get up to, and have the chance to sign up to future sessions.

Inspired by the workshops over the last year, participants will be experimenting with printmaking, sculpture, drawing and painting, overseen by the artist Flora Duley.

During Open Studio, we will also be exhibiting the final outcomes made during workshops by Kristina Pulejkova and Hannah Kemp-Welch, including an AI-generated collaborative artwork and an analogue film.

05/02/2026

Could you be our next Gallery Assistant? Southwark Park Galleries is hiring for enthusiastic and engaged Gallery Assistants.

The Gallery Assistants are a crucial public facing role at Southwark Park Galleries supporting the team with excellent hospitality for all visitors to the gallery.

- Freelance (casual), fixed term
- £13.03 per hour
- Deadline: Monday 2 March 2026 (Midnight)

Read the Recruitment Pack and how to apply via our website:

Southwark Park Galleries is hiring for enthusiastic and engaged Gallery Assistants. The Gallery Assistants are a crucial public facing role at Southwark Park Galleries supporting the team with excellent hospitality for all visitors to the gallery. Managed by the Gallery Manager and

04/02/2026

Southwark Park Galleries is hiring for a Gallery Coordinator – Audiences to join our team.

This new role role works closely with the Gallery Coordinator – Programmes, who focuses on exhibitions and events, and collaborates on many responsibilities concerning reception, administration and supervision of Gallery Assistants.

- Part-time, 4 days per week, 9 months fixed term
- £18,470 (£30,784 pro rata)
- Deadline: Tuesday 17 February 2026 (Midnight)

Read the Recruitment Pack and how to apply via our website

Southwark Park Galleries is hiring for a Gallery Coordinator – Audiences to join our team. The Gallery Coordinator – Audiences is an integral part of the team at Southwark Park Galleries supporting the Deputy Director, Gallery Manager and Public Engagement Manager with

22/01/2026

Looking for a unique wedding venue? Join us at our next Open Day on Saturday 14 February, 10-12pm.

Discover our beautiful Grade II listed Dilston Gallery, check out our facilities and meet our team who will be on hand to answer any questions you have.

If you would like to attend, please register your interest with us via email to:
💌 [email protected]

Image:
Photography © Joasis Wedding Photography

21/12/2025

Thank you for joining us through another exceptional year at Southwark Park Galleries. We have been delighted to welcome:

- Over 12,000 visitors to our galleries,
- Present work by over 548 artists
- Hosted 2,265 participants across 49 free workshops
- Collaborate with 20 national and international partners
- Lead a major national touring exhibition

We would like to thank all the incredible artists we loved working with this year, including:

Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali, Emily Pope, with A/C and Tereza Kalousová, part of You Make Me Feel curated by and in association with and .

and all 15 filmmakers selected for Artists’ Film International 2025: Dream States with

Our major national tour Jerwood Survey III travelled to and

Our 2024 Open winner with her solo exhibition Tender.

Over 460 artists and 700 artworks as part of our largest ever Annual Open 2025.

The 9 artists of Pink! I Have The Power, in collaboration with our neighbours .house

Students from St James’ CE and Rotherhithe Primary schools for Art & Ecology School Residencies: The Exhibition and Southwark Park Flag commission.

Our Associate Artists: Flora Duley, Abigail Hunt, Alexa Lowe, Laura Dee Milnes, Anne Ogazi, and Kandace Siobhan Walker, our gardener Anne Gumuschian and our Bermondsey Bothy resident artist Louis Brown.

We are extremely grateful to our funders, donors and supporters who made this year possible: Albion Street Community Charity; ; ; The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation; Breckman & Company; ; ; Foyle Foundation; .london; ; ; ; ; ; NSET; ; The Paul & Louise Cooke Endowment; ; Southwark Council Neighbourhoods Fund; Southwark Park Association 1869; and the generous individuals from our Friends of the Galleries donations scheme.

Finally, we thank our supportive visitors, both our local neighbours and national audiences, who continue to motivate us to do what we do.

27/11/2025

We are delighted to announce our 2026 exhibitions programme including three major solo exhibitions with artists Saelia Aparicio, Emily Waszak and Isabel Nolan.

Saelia Aparicio: A Joyful Parasite
18 April – 5 July 2026
Dilston Gallery

Spring 2026 will see a major new commission ‘Joyful Parasite’ by Saelia Aparicio () at Dilston Gallery. Using installation, sculpture and large-scale mural drawings to explore the complex entanglements between bodies, environments and systems of care. Commissioned by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art () in partnership with The Burton at Bideford () and generously supported by Foundation Foundation, , Arts Council England and made possible thanks to the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).

Emily Waszak
18 April – 5 July 2026
Lake Gallery

At Lake Gallery, Emily Waszak (.waszak.art) will explore the rituals of her Japanese heritage, experiences of grief and the landscape of rural Donegal that inform her practice. Selected through an innovative open call to support an Irish artist in presenting their debut international solo exhibition — an initiative by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios () and Culture Ireland (). Generously supported by Culture Ireland and Arts Council England.

Isabel Nolan
15 August – 1 November 2026
Lake & Dilston Gallery

Summer will launch the first comprehensive UK solo exhibition of Isabel Nolan (), whose bold use of painting, steel sculptures and textiles invite us to think in the here and now, and look to the vastness of the cosmos. In partnership with the Bluecoat (), this comes at a significant moment as Nolan represents Ireland at the 61st Venice Biennale. This exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England.

Images:
1. Installation view: Saelia Aparicio, A Joyful Parasite (2025) at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead © the artist
2. Installation view: Emily Waszak, part of Faigh Amach (2025) at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin © the artist
3. Isabel Nolan, The view from nowhere (2014) © and courtesy the artist

05/10/2025

We are delighted to announce that Nick Hill has joined our Board of Trustees this summer.

Nick (MA Dip Arch ARB RIBA) is an architect with twenty-five years’ experience in practice, working with some of the UK’s leading cultural institutions. He joins our charity at an exciting juncture as we look ahead to forthcoming capital renovation of Lake Gallery, and the continued preservation of our iconic Grade II Listed Dilston Gallery.

For over ten years Nick was an Associate Director at David Chipperfield’s office in London, leading a series of high profile projects including the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire and Turner Contemporary in Margate, as well as realising the transformational masterplan for the Royal Academy, linking their home on Piccadilly to the former Museum of Mankind on Burlington Gardens.

Alongside establishing his own practice in 2017, Nick was a consultant to Witherford Watson Mann architects for four years, delivering the major refurbishment of the Courtauld Institute of Art in the Grade I listed Somerset House, completed in 2021. He has lectured at architectural schools across the UK and is currently an examiner for Part 3 professional studies at the Architectural Association.

Image:
Nick Hill © Photo by Kendal Noctor

03/10/2025

We are very pleased to announce that Darryl de Prez has joined our Board of Trustees.

Darryl de Prez () is a leading fundraising consultant with over thirty years’ experience across the arts, cultural and non-profit sectors.

We are excited to have Darryl join our charity as we build back our post pandemic strength and forge the path towards our next 40 years in the borough.

Over his career Darryl has worked with a wide range of visual arts institutions including Castello di Rivoli, Goodwood Art Foundation, The Royal Academy of Arts, San Marco Art Centre, Serpentine Galleries and the Whitechapel Gallery.

Darryl was previously Chair at Matt’s Gallery, London and sat on the Development Committees of Artangel and New Contemporaries.

He also collects contemporary art with a focus on emerging and early-career artists.

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Photo Credit

30/09/2025

October is the final month of free kids workshops in our Lake Gallery Garden!

The last 'Green Shoots!' is Saturday 11 October, have a blast with the whole family making new arts & crafts each session while learning about ecology.

'Family Allotment Club' (0 – 5s) will run Friday mornings until the end of the month. Get creative, make friends and learn to garden with our Community Gardeners.

Workshops are free, accessible, drop-in and welcome to all children accompanied by families and carers.

Find out more via the links in bio.

Images:
Green Shoots! © Southwark Park Galleries
Family Allotment Club © Southwark Park Galleries