South London Gallery

Established: 1891

With a vision to ‘bring art to the people of South London’, the South London Gallery (SLG) was established in the 19th century by philanthropist William Rossiter and today it is one of the capital’s leading contemporary visual art institutions. The SLG has an established reputation for its ground-breaking programme of contemporary art exhibitions, events and education projects for children, young people and adults.

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Current Exhibitions

• South London GalleryLondon, Public

  

  Independence to Now

  19 May - 26 Sep 2021

  65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH

  Wed-Sun 11am-6pm

    not open today

  digitised photographs, press releases and exhibition leaflets illustrate the gallery’s history since separating from Southwark Council - the expansion of buildings, artist programmes and educational reach over the last two decades
• South London GalleryLondon, Public

  

  Christina Quarles: In Likeness

  18 Jun - 29 Aug 2021

  65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH

  Wed-Sun 11am-6pm

    not open today

  in her first solo exhibition at a major London institution Quarles presents surreal and deliberately ambiguous images of bodies that seem barely contained by the frame of the canvas
• South London Gallery Fire StationLondon, Public

  

  Ufuoma Essi: From Where We Land

  23 Jun - 5 Sep 2021

  82 Peckham Road, SE15 5LQ

  Wed-Sun 11am-6pm

    not open today

  the gallery’s current Postgraduate Artist in Residence works with video and film to examine second-generation Black British women and their relationship with identity, feelings of cultural displacement, and their shared histories

Forthcoming Exhibitions

• South London Gallery Fire StationLondon, Public

  

  Rita Keegan: Somewhere Between There and Here

  17 Sep - 28 Nov 2021

  82 Peckham Road, SE15 5LQ

  Wed-Sun 11am-6pm

    not open today

  Keegan’s first solo exhibition in more than fifteen years features artworks that reflect the intersection of new media experimentation, feminist practice and the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s

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