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History

The origins of the South London Gallery lie in the South London Working Men's College, established by William Rossiter in 1868, which evolved into a Free Library and Art Gallery.

Rossiter was one of many 19th-century social reformers, philanthropists and artists who set out to improve not only housing and sanitation, but education and culture.

In 1891, the South London Fine Art Gallery, as it was by then called, opened at its current location on Peckham Road. The permanent site was partly secured thanks to fundraising by the Gallery’s influential Council, which included Sir Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, G. F. Watts and Walter Crane.

In the 1890s, the newspaper magnate and philanthropist John Passmore Edwards funded not only the addition of a Lecture Hall and Library to the rear of the Gallery where the Clore Studio now stands, but also the building of an adjacent Technical College, which became known as Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.

In 1896, ownership and management of the Gallery passed to the Vestry of Camberwell, later transferring to the Borough of Camberwell, and then to the Borough of Southwark. The selection of works of art on display had until then been loaned or donated to the Gallery by private collectors and artists, but from the beginning of the 20th century a structured programme of temporary exhibitions was introduced.

The Gallery was closed to the public during World War One and World War Two when it was used as government offices. In 1941, the Lecture Hall and Library building suffered significant damage during an air raid and was later demolished. When the Gallery re-opened in 1949, it continued to host temporary exhibitions, sometimes drawing on its own permanent art collection which had been steadily growing since the 19th century. Open exhibitions and the work of exhibiting groups, such as the South London Group, were common features of the programme over the next forty years.

With the appointment of David Thorp as Director in 1992, the Gallery came to be known as the South London Gallery with a programme focused on contemporary art, and showing work by internationally acclaimed artists such as Gilbert & George, Anselm Kiefer and Sherrie Levine, as well as new, emerging artists of the time such as Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and Ann Sofi-Sidén. In addition, works by artists such as Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor were acquired for the permanent collection with the support of the Contemporary Art Society.

Margot Heller was appointed Director in 2001 and the SLG continued to build on its national and international reputation.

In 2003, the SLG separated from Southwark Council to become an independent charitable trust managed by a Board of Trustees. In the same year architects Stanton Williams and artist Ori Gersht were appointed to develop a plan to enhance and extend the SLG building. The initial phase of this building project was completed in 2004 with the opening of the Gallery’s first dedicated education space, and improved visitor facilities including disabled access.

A further building project, completed in 2010, significantly expanded the Gallery’s spaces. Designed by 6a architects, the previously derelict neighbouring three-storey house was transformed into the Matsudaira Wing, which provided additional galleries, a bookshop, café and a double height events space leading out onto the Fox Garden, designed by Fraser & Morris. To the rear, built on the site of the old Lecture Hall and Library, the Clore Studio was designed as a flexible space for education workshops, talks, film screenings and private hire. This area was further transformed in 2016 when artist Gabriel Orozco designed a new permanent garden in the outside space adjacent to the Clore Studio.

Over the past 20 years, the SLG has worked with hundreds of artists on a wide range of exhibitions and projects, as well as supporting the professional development and practice of artists through residencies in the Outset Artists’ Flat. Throughout this period the SLG has been committed to presenting new work by early and mid-career artists such as Alice Channer, Isabelle Cornaro, Rashid Johnson, Ryan Gander, Gabriel Kuri and Oscar Murillo, as well as by established international figures such as Dara Birnbaum, Thomas Hirschhorn and Lawrence Weiner. This period has also been characterised by the depth of the SLG’s commitment to engaging local residents in its programme, often through long-term projects, and including thousands of children, young people, and adults in inspiring creative, social and training activities.

In 2018 the SLG expanded into the former Peckham Road Fire Station. The Grade II listed building, which was generously donated to the Gallery by an anonymous benefactor, is an addition to the SLG’s main site, enabling the Gallery to enhance the ambition, scope and impact of its programmes to sustain a long-term future.

Past Exhibitions

From its early beginnings in the 1860s, the South London Gallery has emerged as a leading gallery showcasing the best in international contemporary art.

More information about past exhibitions will be available soon but in the meantime contact mail@southlondongallery.org for information about previous displays.

2019

Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
8 March – 26 May 2019

Liz Johnson Artur: If you know the beginning, the end is no trouble
14 June – 1 September 2019

Susan Cianciolo: GOD LIFE: MODERN HOUSE ON LAND OUTSIDE GAME TABLE
21 June – 1 September

Danh Vo: Untitled
19 September – 24 November 2019

Narration Group: Curriculum
20 Aug – 17 Nov 2019

SLG Hosts: School of Speculation
10 – 18 August 2019

Keg De Souza: Convivial City
16 August – 21 September 2019

Who Cares: Stories of Looking After Children in Southwark
30 November 2019 – 19 January 2020

Her Noise Archive
19 November – 23 February 2020

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019

2018

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
5 December 2018 – 24 February 2019

KNOCK KNOCK: Humour in Contemporary Art
22 September – 18 November 2018

Rory Pilgrim: The Resounding Bell
22 September – 18 November 2018

For Some Future Time
7 – 9 September 2018

Luiz  Zerbini: Intuitive Ratio
8 June – 19 August 2018

free.yard: PRAISE N PAY IT/ PULL UP, COME INTO THE RISE
23 March – 27 May 2018

Magali Reus: As mist, description
23 March – 27 May 2018

Big Family Press with OOMK
28 February – 11 March 2018

Adam Linder: Service No.5: Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism
28 February – 11 March 2018

2017

Ilona Sagar: Correspondence O
13 December 2017 – 25 February, First Floor Galleries

Michael Armitage: The Chapel
13 December 2017 – 25 February, First Floor Galleries

Katharina Grosse: This drove my mother up the wall
28 Sep 2017 – 3 Dec 2017, Main Gallery

The Place is Here
23 Jun – 10 Sep 2017, Main & First Floor Galleries

Schools’ Exhibition: Jack Petchey Start Programme
12 – 14 Jul 2017, Clore Studio

Alicia Reyes McNamara: Nowhere Else
7 Apr – Jun 2017, First Floor Galleries

Erik van Lieshout: Three Social Works
7 Apr – 11 Jun 2017, Main Gallery

Amie Siegel: Strata
20 Jan – 26 Mar 2017, Main & First Floor Galleries

2016

Gabriel Orozco Designed Garden
1 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017, First Floor Galleries

Roman Ondak: The Source of Art is in the Life of a People
29 Sep 2016 – 8 Jan 2017, Main Gallery

Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
10 Jun – 11 Sep 2016, SLG Galleries & Fire Station

Sally Golding: Your Double My Double Our Ghost
25 – 29 May 2016, First Floor Galleries

In Fine Style: The Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious
24 Mar – 3 Apr 2016, Clore Studio

Michael Dean: Sic Glyphs
18 Mar – 22 May 2016, Main Gallery

Paul Maheke: I Lost Track of the Swarm
18 Mar – 22 May 2016

Sarah Hughes: One Dozen and Zero Units
1 Mar – 6 Mar 2016, First Floor Galleries

2015      

Heman Chong
11 Dec – 28 Feb, Main & First Floor Galleries

Thea Djordjadze
2 Oct – 29 Nov, Main Gallery

Heather and Ivan Morison
2 Oct – 29 Nov, First Floor Galleries

Thomas Hirschhorn
26 Jun –  13 Sep, Main Gallery

Ane Hjort Guttu
26 Jun –  20 Sep, First Floor Galleries

Dorine van Meel
15 Apr –  14 Jun, First Floor Galleries

Kapwani Kiwanga
15 Apr – 7 Jun, Main Gallery

Isabelle Cornaro
24 Jan –  5 Apr, Main & First Floor Galleries

2014

Invisible Hours
27 Nov 2014 – 18 Jan 2015

Tomorrow: London
27 Nov – 12 Dec 2014, Main Gallery

Lawrence Weiner
26 Sep – 23 Nov 2014, Main & First Floor Galleries, Fox Garden & Off-site Commission

Last Seen Entering the Biltmore
26 Jun – 14 Sep 2014, Main Gallery

Julia Crabtree and William Evans
7 Jun – 14 Sep 2014, First Floor Galleries

Welcome to Iraq
15 Mar – 1 Jun 2014, Main & First Floor Galleries

2013  

Charles Atlas: Glacier
25 Jan –  30 Mar 2013

Eoghan Ryan: Oh wicked flesh!
5 Mar – 16 Jun 2013, First Floor Galleries

Pae White: Too much night, again
13 Mar – 12 May 2013, Main Gallery

At the moment of being heard
28 Jun – 8 Sep 2013, South London Gallery & local venues

Oscar Murillo
20 Sep –  1 Dec 2013, Main & First Floor Galleries

Richard Fleischner
11 Dec 2013 –  2 Mar 2014, First Floor Galleries

Uri Aran
11 Dec 2013 –  23 Feb 2014, Main Gallery

2012

Edward Thomasson: Inside
2 Mar –  13 May 2012

Alice Channer: Out of Body
2 Mar –  13 May 2012

Jean-Pascal Flavien: Cinonema, No Drama Cinema
9 – 12 May 2012

Febrik: Play, I Follow You
17 May – 22 Jul 2012

Stephen Willats: Surfing with the Attractor
1 Jun – 15 Jul 2012

Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport
27 Jul –  14 Sep 2012

Drip, Drape, Draft
28 Sep –  25 Nov 2012

Rashid Johnson: Shelter
28 Sep –  25 Nov 2012

Sanja Ivekovic: Unknown Heroine
14 Dec –  24 Feb 2012

Toxic Play In Two Acts: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz
14 Dec –  24 Feb 2012

2011

Rachel Gomme & John Levack Drever: Audience: Hearing
10 –  13 Feb 2011

Immature
17 –  20 Mar 2011

Charles Atlas, Mika Tajima and New Humans: The Pedestrians
1 –  21 Apr 2011

Simon & Tom Bloor: Happy Habitat Revisited
7 May –  19 Jun 2011

George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day
25 May –  3 Jul 2011

Paul Etienne Lincoln: An Aurelian Labyrinth and other Explications
30 Jun –  18 Sep 2011

Tue Greenfort: Where the People Will Go
15 Jul –  11 Sep 2011

Independent Curators International Presents Fax and Project 35
21 Sep –  27 Nov 2011

Gabriel Kuri: before contingency after the fact
29 Sep –  27 Nov 2011

Dara Birnbaum
9 Dec 2011 –  17 Feb 2012

2010

Michael Landy: Art Bin
29 Jan –  14 Mar 2010

Nothing is Forever
25 Jun –  19 Sep 2010

Michał Budny: Author
1 Oct –  28 Nov 2010

Tatiana Trouvé
1 Oct –  28 Nov 2010

Massimo Bartolini: Cor
3 Nov 2010–  23 Jan 2011

Manon de Boer: Framed in an Open Window
3 Dec 2010 –  23 Jan 2011

2009

Superflex: Flooded McDonald’s
16 Jan –  1 Mar 2009

Ellen Gallagher: An Experiment of Unusual Opportunity – Everyone’s Got a Little Light Under the Door
18 Mar –  3 May 2009

Focus on Forsythe: Additive Inverse
8 –  10 May 2009

Marie Cool Fabio Balducci: Untitled 2006-2009
15 May –  18 Jun 2009

Beyond These Walls
24 Jul –  20 Sep 2009

Omer Fast: Nostalgia
7 Oct to 6 Dec 2009

2008

Alfredo Jaar: Politics of the Image
16 Feb –  6 Apr 2008

Ryan Gander: Heralded as the New Black
24 Apr –  22 Jun 2008

Games & Theory
11 Jul –  7 Sep 2008

Rivane Neuenschwander: Suspension Point
3 Oct –  30 Nov 2008

2007

John Armleder: About Nothing. Works On Paper 1962 – 2007
2 Feb –  15 Apr 2007

Stay Forever and Ever and Ever
2 May –  24 Jun 2007

The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art
14 –  29 Jul 2007

Isa Suarez: The Human Rights Jukebox
31 Jul –  12 Aug 2007

Eva Rothschild
13 Aug –  4 Nov 2007

Thomas Zipp: Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair
16 Nov –  13 Jan 2007

2006

Daniel Roth: The Well
1 Feb –  12 Mar 2006

Nigel Cooke: A Portrait of Everything
30 Mar –  14 May 2006

Around the World in Eighty Days
24 May –  16 Jul 2006

Sixty Seven: Artists’ Projects
24 Jun –  2 Jul 2006

Harold Offeh: The Mothership Collective
1 –  27 Aug 2006

Chris Burden: 14 Magnolia Double Lamps
15 Sep –  5 Nov 2006

Chris Burden: The Flying Steamroller
2 –  15 Oct           2006

Melik Ohanian: Seven Minutes Before
16 Nov 2006 –  14 Jan 2007

2005

Depth of Field: Images of Lagos and London
10 Mar –  8 May 2005

Saskia Olde Wolbers
18 May –  17 Jul 2005

Mark Dion: Microcosmographia
9 Sep –  30 Oct 2005

2004

On Kawara: Reading One Million Years (Trafalgar Square)
29 Mar –  5 Apr 2004

Tom Friedman: Solo Exhibition
15 Jun –  1 Aug 2004

Perfectly Placed
6 –  29 Aug 2004

Steve McQueen
17 Sep –  7 Nov 2004

Franko B: Still Life
12-Nov 2004

Showcase Preview
19 Nov –  19 Dec 2004

2003

Independence
3 Jun –  3 Aug 2003

2002

Keith Tyson SuperCollider
16 Jan –  17 Mar 2002

Christian Boltanski: Les Abonnes du Telephone
27 Mar –  5 May 2002

Joelle Tuerlinckx: In Real Time: Space Parts, Solar Room, Night Cabin
21 May –  7 Jul 2002

20 Million Mexicans Can’t be Wrong
18 Sep –  3 Nov 2002

2001

Barbara Kruger: Power Pleasure Desire Disgust
2 Feb –  18 Mar 2001

Bill Woodrow: The Beekeeper
5 Apr –  13 May 2001

Ross Sinclair: Fortress Real Life (Peckham)
1 Jun –  8 Jul 2001

Urban Nomads
2 Aug –  2 Sep 2001

Walter Crane Floor and Exhibition
11 Sep –  7 Oct 2001

Nils Norman: Geocruiser
22 –  25 Sep 2001

2000

Ann-Sofi Siden: Who is invading my privacy, not so quietly and not so friendly
14 Jan –  5 Mar 2000

Thomas Kilpper: The Ring [SLG Project The Ring Thomas Kilpper at Orbit House, Blackfriars]
11 –  26 Mar 2000

Because a Fire Was in my Head [Craig Bell, Guillame Bijl, John Carson, Chad McCail, Yael Robin, Erasmus Shroter, Mary Evans, Keiko Sato, Suzana Stankovic, Bridget Smith, Patrick Maunsell, Willem Oorebeek, Joshua Sofaer, Mike Kelley. Curated by Jeremy Akerman and Zorica Vasic]
5 Apr –  21 May 2000

Route 12:36 / Open 2000
20 Jun –  1 Jul 2000

Karen Kilimnik: Solo Exhibition
9 –  13 Jul 2000

Domestic Bliss
4 Aug –  10 Sep 2000

Isaac Julien & Javier de Frutos: Cinerama
22 Sep –  22 Oct 2000

Leon Golub: Solo Exhibition
3 Nov –  17 Dec 2000

1999

Julian Schnabel
12 Jan –  28 Feb 1999

The Elders: Brother Everald Brown & Stanley Greaves
10 Mar –  11 Apr 1999

Route 12:36
29 Mar –  4 Apr 1999

Drive By: New Art from LA (Kevin Appel, Jeff Burton, Liz Craft, Jason Meadows, Catherine Opie)
20 Apr –  30 May 1999

Sean Scully: New Paintings
16 Jun –  1 Aug 1999

Non Place Urban Realm
9 –  21 Aug 1999

Mimmo Paladino
8 Sep –  17 Oct 1999

Roundhouse: Brian Eno / Mimmo Paladino
9 Sep –  29 Oct 1999

Vanished! A Video Séance (Brian Catling / Tony Grisoni)
25 –  31 Oct 1999

Live Art: Intimate House – Marcia Farquhar: Acts of Clothing
01-Nov 1999

Live Art: Intimate House – Francesca Vilalta Olle: Penetralia
02-Nov 1999

Intimate House: Stuart Brisley (Ydoold Yadnus, with Edie Freeman & To give the voice a voice no. 2) 05-Nov 1999

New Contemporaries 99
20 Nov –  22 Dec 1999

1998

Marc Quinn
28 Jan –  8 Mar  1998

Parallel Universe (artists included: Ansuman Biswas, Paul Wong and Liliane Karnouk)
13 –  22 Mar  1998

Lovecraft (Russell Crotty, Jeremy Deller, Vincent Fecteau, Tom Friedman, Matthew Higgs, Hope, Jim Isermann, George Ives, Gareth Jones, Udomsak Krisanamis, Hilary Lloyd, Jeff Luke, Corey McCorkle, Lily van der Stokker, Cathy Wilkes. Curated by Martin McGeown & Toby Webster)
3 Apr –  10 May 1998

Jorge Molder (Curated by Susan Copping)
16 May –  21 Jun 1998

Stephen Willats: Changing Everything
1 Jul –  2 Aug 1998

Sound Factory (Curated by Nicola Hood & Hatice Abdullah)
10 –  21 Aug 1998

Gavin Turk: The Stuff Show
10 Sep –  18 Oct 1998

Site Construction (Heike Baranowsky, Monica Bonvicini, Thomas Demand, Jonathan Meese, Manfred Pernice)
11 Nov –  20 Dec 1998

1997

Twin Gabriel: Floating – Floccinaucinihilipilification
4 Dec 1997 – 18 Jan 1998

1996

Desert (Hannah Collins, Knut Maron, Sophie Ristelhueber, Michael Rovner, Thomas Ruff, Frederick Sommer, Bill Viola, Verdi Yahooda. Curated by Jim Harold)
12 Apr –  19 May 1996

Stuart Brisley: Black
29 May –  7 Jul 1996

Inside Bankside (Dennis Creffield, Anthony Eyton, Deanna Petherbridge, Terry Smith, Thomas Struth, Catherine Yass)
17 Jul –  25 Aug 1996

Sherrie Levine: New Photography
10 Sep –  20 Oct 1996

Popoccultural (Simon Bill, Ellen Cantor, John Cussans & Ranu Mukherjee, Jeremy Deller, Cosey Fanni Tutti & Chris Carter, Jason Fox, Dan Graham, Paul McCarthy, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Simon Periton, Jeffrey Vallance. Curated by Cabinet Gallery)
30 Oct –  27 Nov 1996

1995

Bad Brains: John Dutton & Peter Snadden
27 Jan –  26 Feb 1995

Zarina Bhimji
8 Mar –  2 Apr 1995

Minky Manky (Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Matt Collishaw, Critial Decor, Stephen Pippin, Gilbert and George. Curated by Carl Freedman)
12 Apr –  14 May 1995

Ettore Spalletti
24 May –  2 Jun 1995

Karaoke: 4 for 4 and 2 to 2 too (Biefer & Zgraggen, Urs Fischer, Franz Wanner, David Allen, Roddy Buchanan, Jacqueline Donachie, Douglas Gordon, (e.) Twin Gabriel, Liebscher – Lehanka, Max Mohr, Angela Bulloch, Mat Collishaw, Abigail Lane, Georgina Starr. Curated by Georg Herold).
11 Jul –  20 Aug 1995

Gilbert & George: The Naked Shit Pictures (+ The Naked Shit Model)
5 Sep –  15 Oct 1995

Southwark & Its People: Black History Month (Mayor’s Reception, Friday 27 Oct 1995)
23 –  29 Oct 1995

Southwark Open: South London Gallery and Winne Mandela House
20 Nov –  17 Dec 1995

1994
Vivan Sundaram: Map, Monument, Fallen Mortal
14 Jan –  20 Feb 1994

Eva Lootz: A Farewell to Isaac Newton
9 Mar –  17 Apr 1994

Distant Voices: Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic (Milena Dopitova, Petr Nikl, Vaclaw Stratil, Ivan Kafka)
28 Apr –  20 May 1994

Nicholas May: Recent Paintings
25 May –  26 Jun 1994

True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag (Richard Bell, H.J. Wedge, Lin Onus, Destiny Deacon, Andrew Brook
6 Jul –  7 Aug 1994

Rose Garrard: Arena for Conversation
17 Aug –  18 Sep 1994

Shaheen Merali: Channels, Echoes and Empty Chairs
28 Sep –  30 Oct 1994

Michael Petry: The Garden of Enlightenment (a video installation by Michael Petry, starring Michael Cashman, 28 Sep – 29 Oct 1994)
28 Sep –  30 Oct 1994

Shelagh Wakely: Rainsquare
28 Sep –  30 Oct 1994

Rasheed Araeen
11 Nov –  18 Dec 1994

1993

Golden Crescent
12 Jan –  28 Feb 1993

Sweet Home (Anya Gallaccio, Pat Kaufman, Cornelia Parker, Pat Thornton)
12 Feb –  11 Mar 1993

Refusing to Surface: Art and the Transfiguration of the Ordinary (Guillaume Bijl, Joan Brossa, Philippe Cazal, Tony Carter, Leo Copers, Thomas Grunfeld, Richard Hamilton, Yves Klein, Ange Leccia, Simon Linke, Caroline Russell, Haim Steinbach, Rosemarie Trockel, Peter Zimmerman
26 Mar –  30 Apr 1993

Permeations: Light in the Attic
14 May –  20 Jun 1993

New Installations: Andrea Fisher and Mona Hatoum
2 Jul –  8 Aug 1993

Steven Campbell: Pinocchio’s Present
17 Sep –  31 Oct 1993

Jagdish
12 Nov – 19 Dec  1993

1992

2nd Coming: Outstanding Contemporary Art from Ten Years of Major Exhibitions 1980-1990
29 Jan –  29 Mar 1992

10th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
8 May –  19 Jun 1992

The Ateliers: Art from Southwark Studios
10 Jul –  7 Aug 1992

Crossing Black Waters (Asian Artists National Touring Exhibition)
18 Sep –  18 Oct 1992

Origin: Southwark and Lewisham Open Exhibition
13 Nov –  16 Dec 1992

Past Education Projects

 

EVIDENCE OF US
Through long-term intergenerational projects, Evidence of Us seeks to position people as experts in their own heritage by foregrounding local knowledge and supporting otherwise under-explored histories.

Rory Pilgrim, The Resounding Bell
Mar 2018 – ongoing

Big Family Press with OOMK
Feb – Mar 2018

Community Forum
Nov 2016 – ongoing

OPEN PLAN
Open Plan is a long term public art and education project which invites international and British artists to create artworks and events with and for the SLG’s close neighbours on Elmington, Pelican and Sceaux Gardens housing estates.

Art Block
Aug 2017- ongoing

Jessie Brennan: Your Words
Feb 2017 – ongoing

Morag Myerscough: The Club Under My House
Aug 2017

ART ASSASSINS
2009 – ongoing
The Art Assassins are a diverse group of young people aged between 14-21 years old who meet every Tuesday at the South London Gallery.

Show of Hands
May 2015

For the People, by the People
Feb – May 2015

Invisible Hours
Nov 2014 – Jan 2015

The Bivvy Broadcast
Sep 2014

We Are Us and You Are You
May – Jul 2014

Arcade Peckham
Jan – Mar 2014

24 hour Resonance Takeover
Aug 2013

RECREATIVE
2011 – ongoing
REcreativeUK.com is an online contemporary art resource designed by and for young people. The REcreative editorial board are a group of young people aged 16 – 25 who meet monthly to help shape the REcreative programme’s content and direction.

REcreative Mentees
2012 – 2013

CREATIVE FAMILIES
2013 – ongoing
Creative Families is a series of artist-led projects in collaboration with Southwark Parental Health team which explores the relationship of parenting to well-being.

SUPERSMASHERS
2012 – ongoing
Supersmashers is an arts and play project for up to 200 looked-after children aged 6-12 living in Southwark

SUNDAY SPOT
2010 – ongoing
The Sunday Spot is a free regular Sunday afternoon workshop for children and families which is led by artists and explores themes in the SLG’s exhibitions

MAKING ROUTES
2015 – 2017
Making Routes was a unique partnership between Oasis Children’s Venture, South London Gallery and Battersea Arts Centre which saw six residencies for disabled and non disabled artists and concluded in an inclusive festival across all three venues.

PECKHAM CULTURAL INSTITUTE
Feb 2014 – Jan 2015
The Peckham Cultural Institute was a series of study-sessions in collaboration with Central St Martins College, aimed at developing a model for representing ‘culture’ through digital curating and archiving.

SLG LOCAL
2012 – 2017
SLG Local brought together a number of projects with a focus on creating relationships with audiences within walking distance of the SLG.

Shop of Possibilities
2012 – 2017

Play Local
2012 – 2017

The Signs Project
2013 – 2015

Heather & Ivan Morison: Shadow Curriculum
2013 – 2014

SLG Local/Noise Summit
Aug 2013 – Jul 2014

Tom White: Public address
Feb – Jul 2013

Who’s in? An Estate-wide Football Game
Aug 2012

Dancing in Peckham
Mar – Jun 2012

Move: Together
2011 – 2012

LOUIS VUITTON YOUNG ARTS PROJECT
2010 – 2013
The Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project was an arts and education programme that built a network of peer-led education work across five partner galleries: Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, led by the South London Gallery. Fourth Plinth Education Programme.

GREAT ART QUEST
2012 – 2013
The Great Art Quest was a national visual art and storytelling project organised by The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts.

MAKING PLAY
2008 – 2011
Making Play was the first project that enabled the gallery to develop a long-term relationship with our closest neighbours on Sceaux Gardens, Southampton Way, Pelican and Elmington Estates. Making Play was inspired by the possibilities of bringing together children’s play and contemporary art practice.

DOUBLE TAKE
2007 – 2009
Double Take saw the SLG’s contemporary collection exhibited in two Southwark Secondary schools.