Art in South East London
Arts Calendar lists 15 exhibitions, 7 workshops and classes and 2 drawing groups at 12 venues in South East London. Thursday is the busiest night, with 6 of the regular listings.
Exhibitions on now
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Closes Sat 17 Oct
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Closes Sat 17 Oct
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Closes Sat 17 Oct
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Closes Sat 17 Oct
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Closes Sat 17 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Sun 18 Oct
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Closes Mon 19 Oct
Exhibition
Through Our Lens: Photography Course Exhibition
Harrow Arts Centre, Harrow, Greater London
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
Exhibition
Lucy Dodd: The good, the true and the beautiful
Sprüth Magers London, London, Greater London
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Closes Sat 24 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
Exhibition
The Art and Life of Henry Moore
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
Exhibition
Henry Moore: The Shelter Drawings 1940 to 1941
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
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Closes Sun 25 Oct
Exhibition
Unfinished Business: The Mystery of Margate and Turner’s Bequest
Turner’s House, Twickenham, Greater London
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Closes Sat 31 Oct
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Until 1 Nov
Exhibition
There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women: Jemma Desai
Somerset House, London, Greater London
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 1 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
Exhibition
Mary Ramsden: The Feeling of What Happens
Pilar Corrias Conduit Street, London, Greater London
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Until 7 Nov
Exhibition
Nicola Turner: I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Greater London
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 7 Nov
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Until 8 Nov
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Until 8 Nov
Exhibition
This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 8 Nov
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Until 8 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
Exhibition
Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem
Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham, Greater London
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
Exhibition
Rirkrit Tiravanija: (situational awareness)
Pilar Corrias Savile Row, London, Greater London
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 14 Nov
Exhibition
William Crozier: Dance of the Living 1961 to 1974
Flowers Gallery Cork Street, London, Greater London
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Until 14 Nov
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Until 15 Nov
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Until 21 Nov
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Until 22 Nov
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Until 22 Nov
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Until 22 Nov
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Until 29 Nov
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Until 29 Nov
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Until 29 Nov
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Until 29 Nov
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Until 6 Dec
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Until 12 Dec
Exhibition
This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, Greater London
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Until 12 Dec
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Until 12 Dec
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Until 12 Dec
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Until 13 Dec
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Until 13 Dec
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Until 18 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
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Until 19 Dec
Exhibition
A Socially Useful Production: The Participation Waltz
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London
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Until 20 Dec
Exhibition
Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-garde Photography in 20th-Century Italy
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, Greater London
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 20 Dec
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Until 23 Dec
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Until 23 Dec
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 3 Jan 2027
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Until 9 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Swaying in the Wind: Frédérick Yvan Manuel Gay
The Fan Museum, Greenwich, Greater London
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Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific
V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 10 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists, Part 2
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 17 Jan 2027
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Until 20 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 24 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
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Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition
Henry Moore: Monumental Nature
Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew, Greater London
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Until 6 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
National Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 7 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care, Spaces of Grief and Possibility
Wellcome Collection, London, Greater London
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 14 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
British Wildlife Photography Awards
Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill, Greater London
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Until 21 Feb 2027
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 7 Mar 2027
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Until 21 Mar 2027
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Until 28 Mar 2027
Exhibition
Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, Greater London
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 17 Apr 2027
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Until 25 Apr 2027
Exhibition
Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone
The Wallace Collection, London, Greater London
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Until 30 Apr 2027
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Until 3 May 2027
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Until 16 May 2027
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Until 11 Jul 2027
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Until 26 Sep 2027
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Until 26 Sep 2027
Exhibition
Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts
V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
Exhibitions opening soon
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Opens Sat 17 Oct
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
Exhibition
My. Three. Words.: Voyages of the Imagination
Courtyard Arts Hertford, Hertford, Hertfordshire
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
Exhibition
Traces of Home: Contemporary Perspectives from Qatar
Mall Galleries, London, Greater London
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Opens Tue 20 Oct
Exhibition
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich, Greater London
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Opens Wed 21 Oct
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Opens Thu 22 Oct
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Opens Thu 22 Oct
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Opens Fri 23 Oct
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Opens Tue 27 Oct
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Opens Thu 29 Oct
Exhibition
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2026
National Portrait Gallery, London, Greater London
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Opens Fri 30 Oct
Monday 19 October
Happy birthday to Pierre Alechinsky (99 today)
Born on this day: Umberto Boccioni (1882)
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Mon 19 Oct 19:00 21:00
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Mon 19 Oct 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 20 October
Born on this day: Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Andrea della Robbia (1435) and Enid Marx (1902)
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Tue 20 Oct 19:00 21:00
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Tue 20 Oct 19:00 21:00
Drawing Group
London Drawing Covent Garden Tuesday Studio
Quaker Meeting House Covent Garden, London, Greater London
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Tue 20 Oct 19:00 21:00
Wednesday 21 October
Happy birthday to Martin Creed (58 today)
Born on this day: Domenichino (1581)
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Wed 21 Oct 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
London Drawing Waterloo Wednesday Studio
Waterloo Action Centre, London, Greater London
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Wed 21 Oct 19:00 21:00
Thursday 22 October
Born on this day: Robert Capa (1913) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925)
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Thu 22 Oct 15:00 19:00
Friday 23 October
Happy birthday to Maggi Hambling (81 today)
Born on this day: Lygia Clark (1920) and M H Baillie Scott (1865)
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Fri 23 Oct 19:00 21:00
Saturday 24 October
Born on this day: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906)
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Sat 24 Oct 12:00 16:00
Monday 26 October
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Mon 26 Oct 19:00 21:00
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Mon 26 Oct 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 27 October
Born on this day: Lee Krasner (1908) and Roy Lichtenstein (1923)
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Tue 27 Oct 19:00 21:00
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Tue 27 Oct 19:00 21:00
Drawing Group
London Drawing Covent Garden Tuesday Studio
Quaker Meeting House Covent Garden, London, Greater London
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Tue 27 Oct 19:00 21:00
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Tue 27 Oct 19:30 21:30
Wednesday 28 October
Born on this day: Audrey Amiss (1933), Francis Bacon (1909), Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925) and O.G.S. Crawford (1886)
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Wed 28 Oct 18:30 20:30
Drawing Group
London Drawing Waterloo Wednesday Studio
Waterloo Action Centre, London, Greater London
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Wed 28 Oct 19:00 21:00
Thursday 29 October
Born on this day: Niki de Saint Phalle (1930) and R. B. Kitaj (1932)
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Thu 29 Oct 15:00 19:00
Friday 30 October
Born on this day: Alfred Sisley (1839) and Angelica Kauffman (1741)
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Fri 30 Oct 19:00 21:00
Saturday 31 October
Born on this day: Helmut Newton (1920) and Katsushika Hokusai (1760)
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Sat 31 Oct 12:00 16:00
Everything listed in South East London
Exhibitions 15
- Ana Mendieta
- Anselm Kiefer
- Frida: The Making of an Icon
- Gabriel Orozco: Chronotopic
- Gathering Ground
- Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui
- Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.
- Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography
- Listening to the earth
- Monet: Painting Time
- Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter
- Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong
- Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell
- RWS Autumn Exhibition 2026
- Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures
Workshops and classes 7
Drawing groups 2
Something in South East London we are missing?
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