The Picture Description Talk series Picture Description talks are designed for our blind or visually impaired visitors. Delivered by our trained guides, each talk introduces paintings from our Collection or the exhibition followed by a group discussion.

Free

Lychee One presents ‘Portals to The Past’, the first solo exhibition in our space by Chinese- born artist Qian Qian. This exhibition advances Qian’s artistic explorations over the past five years, intertwining the realms of technology with mythology, the material with the spiritual, and the tangible with the transcendent. In addition to her latest watercolours on paper, the exhibition also features her first attempt at presenting oil paintings on canvas, alongside a sculptural installation piece titled Form and Emptiness.

Free

A solo exhibition by Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa, coinciding with the artist’s representation at Ethiopia’s inaugural participation in La Biennale di Venezia.

This reading group will explore two texts in order to investigate the contradictions, strategies and forms of movement building that are necessary to respond to crisis and oppressive governance.

£10.00 / £8.00 MEMBER / £8.00 CONCESSION

LR Vandy will discuss her new works and artistic practice in a Gallery Talk with Elisabeth Lalouschek, October Gallery’s Artistic Director.

October Gallery is delighted to present the second solo exhibition of LR Vandy, following last year’s display of her large-scale installation, Dancing in Time: The Ties That Bind Us, a five-meter-high rope sculpture commissioned for the International Slavery Museum’s Martin Luther King celebrations at Liverpool’s Canning Dock waterfront.

Free

In an ambitious new commission developed site-responsively for Gallery Three and the Reading Room, Omoding will repurpose abandoned materials and objects, interweaving them with new metalwork produced in a London foundry, music, and video in an installation that embraces the characteristic exuberance and generosity of his practice.

Free

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presents Shaqúelle Whyte’s first solo exhibition, Yute, you’re gonna be fine.

In his paintings, Whyte presents imagined spaces imbued with a sense of ambiguity that interrogate the human condition, all the while exploring the material qualities of the medium. Loosely rendered, energetic brushwork and an expansive approach to composition are hallmarks of the artist’s practice.

Free

October Gallery is delighted to present the second solo exhibition of LR Vandy, following last year’s display of her large-scale installation, Dancing in Time: The Ties That Bind Us, a five-meter-high rope sculpture commissioned for the International Slavery Museum’s Martin Luther King celebrations at Liverpool’s Canning Dock waterfront. Twist features a new series of sculptures created from a variety of ropes and other materials; one large-scale rope work, several smaller rope sculptures, a collection of photographic prints and further new works from the artist’s signature Hull series.

Free

Felix & Spear present Speak To Me Great Lionheaded Ancestors, an exhibition of sculptures and wall-based works by Fowokan George Kelly (b. 1943).

Free (rsvp essential)

Join The Brixton Project, Impact On Urban Health and special guests for an engaging roundtable discussion on our rights and access to a healthy urban landscape. From ULEZ to LTNs, we’ll explore vital topics, including the privilege of private gardens.

Free

TACO! presents a new film Our Future, Our Past: whisper it to me (2024) - by Charlotte Ginsborg (commissioned by Cement Fields), alongside I Carry it With me Everywhere (2024) by Turab Shah and Arwa Aburawa, and selected archival material that addresses memory, belonging, home and transience in relationship to contemporary built environments and large-scale regeneration.

Free

What methods of transnational solidarity are available to us to aid global feminist resistance to capitalism’s destructive force?

£10.00 / £8.00 MEMBER / £8.00 CONCESSION

Rele, London is delighted to announce Nigerian artist, Marcellina Akpojotor's first solo exhibition in the UK, running from 11 April - 18 May 2024. The series is a continuation of her survey into generational legacy and the evolving nature of archives. Building upon investigations of her maternal bloodline, this new body of work titled, Joy of more Worlds traces a timeline of family life that connects and captures the spirit of the contemporary African women, exploring female empowerment and the role of motherhood in society. The large-scale paintings are densely collaged with the Ankara fabric to delicately display intimate celebrations of memories.

Free

Join curators from the V&A’s Photography and Prints department as they introduce key Collection objects which represent art’s close relationship to forms of protest and resistance.

Following their successful programme Decolonising the Body, Skaped has curated this exhibition of community art as a celebration of the experiences and learning undertaken.

Free (booking required)

Using archival footage and photographs from Nigeria and the UK, the film explores the experience of being mixed race. It concludes by shedding light on concealed systems that exploit the ongoing displacement and redirection, pushing individuals in need away from supportive networks and towards trauma and suffering.

£5 / £3.50 concessions

Felix & Spear present Speak To Me Great Lionheaded Ancestors, an exhibition of sculptures and wall-based works by Fowokan George Kelly (b. 1943).

Free

At this Late at Tate Britain experience workshops, performances, DJ sets, talks and displays that imagine new futures, question the role of mothers in society and explore the politics of the body.

Free

These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.

Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.

Free

These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.

Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.

Free

This BSL talk will look at highlights from our Soulscapes exhibition. You will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition independently following the talk.

Free

This reading group will explore two texts in order to investigate the contradictions, strategies and forms of movement building that are necessary to respond to crisis and oppressive governance.

£5

A group exhibition of cross-generational painters, 'Accordion Fields' presents a selection of works across both of Lisson Gallery’s London spaces. All eight artists, whether born or based in the UK or internationally, initially cultivated their artistic talent in London, studying at one of the city’s prominent arts schools and often in direct dialogue with one another. Across a thirty-year span, the artists have witnessed a multiplicity of socio-political shifts, including London’s evolving relationship with the rest of the UK, Europe and the world, and an evolution in the position of British painting on a global stage. With works in the show spanning densely layered landscapes to compressed portraits and composite re-imaginings of past events, the participating artists together produce a symphony of painterly styles, exploring the indeterminate, liminal and multi-dimensional notions of space.

These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.

Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.

Free

Staffordshire St presents Faith, Place and Migration, co-curated by Shahed Saleem and Julie Marsh in collaboration with the congregation at the Old Kent Road Mosque.

Experience the traditional craft of letterpress during this workshop. Select from a range of vintage wood block typefaces, compose your message, ink the blocks, and print your personalized poster to take home

This workshop is part of the Peckham erspective project: collecting messages from the community, turning them into letterpress prints and creating an installation that unifies the voices of Peckham.

Free

A film screening from the I’m Migrant series, focusing on Iraqi painter Afifa Aleiby.

Followed by a Q & A with the Artist and Iraqi photographer & film-maker Yamam Nabeel.

This screening is presented by ArtForward.

In this a deeply personal project, Yamam shares the Iraq he missed out on, as the young son of exiled Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin, a parallel Iraq created by these artists he grew up with in Europe, through analogue film portraits and a film documentary series, as well as original artwork and installations.

One day Event

Delve into a stellar artistic career spanning over 50 years with guest speakers Susi Sahmland, Frank Bowling Studio; artist Rohan Ayinde; and Beatriz Lobo Britto, Curator at the Institute of International Visual Arts in London (iniva).

Free (Booking required)

These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.

Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.

Free

These tours explore the history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the current day.

Tours are subject to change, please call the ticket desk on the morning of your visit to confirm which tours and talks are going ahead.

Free

Staffordshire St presents Faith, Place and Migration, co-curated by Shahed Saleem and Julie Marsh in collaboration with the congregation at the Old Kent Road Mosque.

Staffordshire gallery invite you to gather, share and document community histories through stories, objects and images. Join us to discover community perspectives, and contribute to a local archive.

Free