{"title": "Drawn on the Western Front: Paul Sarrut and the Indian Army", "start": "2026-07-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Army Museum", "address": "SW3 4HT London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing", "history/ww1"], "description": "A free exhibition at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London, showing over 50 original drawings and works on paper by the French artist Paul Sarrut. During the First World War, Sarrut served as a liaison officer and interpreter with British, French and Indian units on the Western Front, living among the soldiers he drew. His sketches capture everyday life in camps, billets and medical stations, with Indian soldiers forming the subject of his most detailed studies. Alongside the drawings are uniforms, photographs, archives and medals, including Victoria Crosses awarded to Lieutenant Frank de Pass and Sepoy Khudadad Khan.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/drawn-on-the-western-front-paul-sarrut-and-the-indian-army-37242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c842d56767fcecf3a6f0d460189b581dee0d42b1da9c4f4a0ad7eb280188e496-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-07-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Army Museum", "address": "SW3 4HT London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Drawn on the Western Front: Audio-Described Tour", "start": "2026-10-31T11:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Army Museum", "address": "SW3 4HT London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.nam.ac.uk/event/413:1040/413:19539/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/drawing", "history/ww1"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition 'Drawn on the Western Front', designed for blind and visually impaired visitors and their companions. Art curator and exhibition lead Anna Lavelle of the National Army Museum presents the wartime drawings of Paul Sarrut, a French soldier who trained as an artist and sketched officers and other ranks of the Indian Army while stationed with the 3rd (Lahore) Division. The tour shows how his work gives a glimpse of the realities of war and the daily lives of Indian soldiers on the Western Front. 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As men from India were deployed overseas, women took up roles to support the war effort, and after the 1947 Partition people from South Asia were recruited to help rebuild Britain. It was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/forgotten-india-at-80-the-stories-you-dont-know-37243/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8204f03f08e661a8219f20d86dded3b5e5d2b1c18c2b4f5b08a26e6d16fc2251-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art", "start": "2026-03-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.iwm.org.uk/products/wartime-london-in-paintings?_pos=1&_sid=b7a279610&_ss=r", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/wwii"], "description": "Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art is a free exhibition at IWM London on Level 3. It tells the story of London during the Second World War as seen by artists, many commissioned by the government's War Artists' Advisory Committee, set up in 1939. Over 45 paintings and drawings are shown alongside photographs, film, objects and oral histories, with works by artists such as Edward Ardizzone, Evelyn Dunbar and Henry Carr. The exhibition shows Londoners facing loss, displacement, overcrowding and shortages, and is suitable for both adults and children, with a stamper trail and activity sheet for families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beauty-and-destruction-wartime-london-in-art-36628/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8e851068fff0ca5592f7974efa2d0e68eb8ea7ec7edd36beec9dd222c61df07-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Women’s War Work: Indian Women and the Second World War", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Army Museum", "address": "SW3 4HT London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.nam.ac.uk/event/413:1047/413:19723/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A free lunchtime talk at the National Army Museum exploring the roles Indian women played during the Second World War. Historian Dr Kiran Sahota, an award-winning military historian and founder of Believe in Me CIC, covers contributions from the Women's Auxiliary Corps India and the Wasbies in Burma to the Royal Indian Naval Service, as well as the wives who stayed at home while their husbands served as soldiers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/womens-war-work-indian-women-and-the-second-world-war-37239/", "official_url": "https://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/womens-war-work-indian-women-and-second-world-war", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d811535a2a2ac3efd722e5d931ce78519ef3dfb2898a49fafd0fffab2720ed63-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn exhibition & \"Back from the hill\"", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rountree Tryon Galleries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition called Autumn exhibition & \"Back from the hill\", running at the gallery Rountree Tryon Galleries in London. The gallery is behind it, presenting paintings and works by artists such as Edward Seago, Archibald Thorburn and Rodger McPhail. The works on show range from maritime and battle scenes to sporting, wildlife and landscape subjects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-exhibition-back-from-the-hill-76791/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/971950bc6a1b171e5c14ac58a35086d9c6eaf6c3f0521bc8ce3645fb9310c65f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Darkness Never Lasts – Collective Drawings", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£200", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of collective drawings made in monthly open sessions at the gallery, where participants drew with charcoal on large sheets of paper while electronic music played. Behind it are the gallery's residency with musician Cos Chapman, whose live improvisation guided the sessions, and visual artist and performer Jo Roberts, presiding in her role as The Librarian. The drawings move from dark masses surrounding human figures and despairing hands toward coloured, hopeful forms, and the works reflect the suffering of the Palestinian people and a wish for a peaceful, equalitarian solution. Each selected drawing is sold at the same price of £200, with half of the proceeds donated to Medical Aid for Palestine, a scheme that has so far raised £8,500.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/darkness-never-lasts-collective-drawings-36564/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10fc6918b15c0f711f3d6bd048c28baef1ffc29dd6683f255292becf580241fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Big Draw: Portray your Power", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A drawing workshop at The Wallace Collection as part of the Big Draw, held in the museum's Arms and Armour galleries. Artist Marc Woodhead helps participants gather ideas from the armouries through drawing and mark making to create their own powerful, decorative piece of armour. All materials are provided, places are free but limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day. It is for ages 5 and up, and children must be accompanied by a supervising adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-big-draw-portray-your-power-39902/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/the-big-draw-portray-your-power/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63523d7bcda50ba01a1eecf145da443347fb6f35d87c4c9ae6385f31dd91a43c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions", "start": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Wellcome Collection", "address": "Euston Road 183, NW1 2BE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing", "society/mental-health"], "description": "A free museum exhibition dedicated to the artist Audrey Amiss (1933–2013), running at Wellcome Collection on Euston Road. It brings together her drawings, paintings and exhibition materials, exploring her work as both artist and campaigner who spoke out against harmful treatment within the mental health system. The show focuses on works that records suggest Amiss exhibited or intended to make public, and attempts to restage three of her solo exhibitions. Her extensive archive was donated to Wellcome Collection in 2014.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/audrey-amiss-the-surviving-exhibitions-40244/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/024b88b34ffe66cd45e31c4e8f128b2606f91b6fe009f2a38860b636445d6b93-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Berkeley Square Fair LAPADA London W1 Stand A13", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "MacConnal-Mason", "address": "Duke Street St James's 17, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.macconnal-mason.com/artwork-detail/875538/0/dorothea-sharp-rba-roi-pswa-dartford", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "MacConnal-Mason presents a stand at the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, held in Berkeley Square, London W1. The gallery brings selected artworks, including paintings by Gustave Loiseau, Eugène-Louis Boudin, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Sir Alfred Munnings and Sir Kyffin Williams, alongside sculpture and other works.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/berkeley-square-fair-lapada-london-w1-stand-a13-76662/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8eb7bb218b5a9687919fc8c84da974d500b50a2c55f8ff1ef00564bc5125301d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In Provence and Southern France", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/all-artworks", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "A free selling display of prints and paintings shown in the Belle Shenkman Room in the Keeper's House of the Royal Academy of Arts, with all works available for sale. It features works by Dame Barbara Rae DBE RA, made after visits to Ménerbes, Maubec, Vaucluse, Campagnac and Alayrax in Provence and southern France. The artist, who has travelled widely for inspiration, explored the culture and history of the landscape, from its towns and vineyards to its sunflower fields. The display runs from 29 September 2026 to 28 February 2027, and visitors who are not members can enquire at the membership desk to view it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-provence-and-southern-france-38255/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ee24d195441fbf6f15e09319aa2c294e380865054be4fcfc8ea9ffc80e1054c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Selected Works: 19th and 20th Century", "start": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Helly Nahmad Gallery", "address": "Cork Street 2-4, W1S 3LB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings and works from the 19th and 20th century held at the Helly Nahmad Gallery on Cork Street. The gallery presents selected pieces by artists including Salvador Dalí, Edgar Degas, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/selected-works-19th-and-20th-century-78732/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem", "start": "2026-06-26T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bethlem Museum of the Mind", "address": "Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BX", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition of pictures made by artists from India with lived experience of mental distress, opening at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Some were drawn by patients at what in the 1950s was known as Bangalore Mental Hospital as part of occupational therapy, while others are by people living with mental health challenges in and around Bengaluru today. The 1950s works came to England through the friendship between M.V. Govindaswamy and German emigré psychiatrist Wilhelm Mayer-Gross, who together helped establish that hospital, later the National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences. Full of movement, colour, humour and joy, the pictures tell stories of people, places, homes and religions, sharing a message of hope that is authentically one of India.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manasa-chitra-the-art-of-mental-health-from-bengaluru-to-bet-60061/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f29bf0639ffb6b09947469a70767512f76cb0eb78db041673a745f6acb119c3b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "WINTER EXHIBITION", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Connaught Brown", "address": "Albemarle Street 2, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "WINTER EXHIBITION is an art exhibition at the Connaught Brown gallery in London. The gallery presents outstanding works by artists including Chagall, Matisse, Renoir, Morisot, Sisley, Hepworth and others. 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His paintings use a drawing style inspired by hill figures such as the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset and the Uffington White Horse in Berkshire, along with other Celtic, Viking, and Anglo-Saxon sources, while depicting contemporary landscapes. The paintings are accompanied by poems and folksongs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hill-drawings-by-melvyn-robinson-60504/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Drink and Draw: Drawn to the Water", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "place": "Leighton House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://leightonhouse.digitickets.co.uk/search", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing/figure-drawing"], "description": "A relaxed drink-and-draw life drawing session inspired by Leighton's celebrated bathing compositions 'Venus Disrobing for the Bath', 'The Bath of Psyche' and 'A Bather'. It is run by 2B Or Not 2B Collective, a POC-run London life drawing group that aims to make life drawing accessible to all and uplifting for marginalised bodies. A life model recreates the elegant poses, drapery and play of body and fabric from the paintings, in the very house where Leighton lived and painted. The tutored class welcomes all levels, with drawing boards, materials and paper provided, and participants must be over 18.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/drink-and-draw-drawn-to-the-water-60937/", "official_url": "https://leightonhouse.digitickets.co.uk/category/76407", "image": "https://noky.io/images/13c7dfdad110cf26c7d9f0afcbfe1cc05295957e1012ecf2b5d8fe372a48d2e6-600.webp"}, {"title": "Sam Jackson: What Remains of Her", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pontone Gallery", "address": "Newman Street 74а, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait"], "description": "An art exhibition titled 'Sam Jackson: What Remains of Her' at Pontone Gallery. The artist Sam Jackson paints portraits of queens, princesses and other women of historical note, from Cleopatra to Boudicca to Queen Victoria. Since these women cannot be painted from life, the likenesses are conjured from secondary sources, folk tale and the artist's imagination. The works use a uniform head-and-shoulders format with loose, gestural brushwork, letters and phrases scattered across the picture plane.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sam-jackson-what-remains-of-her-41921/", "official_url": "https://pontonegallery.com/exhibitions/203-sam-jackson-what-remains-of-her/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8348fca0f52edeec6958e15f39280b8040d11c859af1f612354d2a2db88633b8-2000.webp"}]}