{"title": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions. Members go free.", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://qbcentre.org.uk/ticket-hub", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever is a new exhibition blending UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture. It is created by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio. Visitors travel through two co-existing spaces, 'Dystopia' and 'Utopia', meeting animated figures of ancient legend and myth, from Cornish piskies to a Pied Piper of Hamelin with TikTok-style dancing rats. The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.somersethouse.org.uk/events?K=Enclosure&StartDate=2026-09-24", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film"], "description": "An exhibition pairing a newly commissioned film with a large-scale immersive installation in the Lancaster Rooms of the New Wing. It is the work of Jenkin van Zyl, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester. Set in a decaying facility once built for replication, where visitors could temporarily live the lives of others, it follows Mercy, a starlet whose likeness was lent to the programme, as she arrives to terminate her contract and the boundary between original and copy turns porous. The work explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it, asking what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. 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Curated by Beatriz Lobo with programme support by Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut, it responds to Lubaina Himid's British Pavilion commission and explores how collective care, tradition-making and belonging are built through everyday practices such as cooking, braiding and gathering. Three artists, Anya Paintsil, Rajyashri Goody and Rose Afefé, are supported to make new commissions in their local contexts, while four writers from an international open call will respond to the works in a digital publication. 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It was created by Michael Petry, a renowned artist and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, London, and launches the museum's new programme of artist commissions. At its heart is The Genie, an installation of 27 individually hand-blown, multi-coloured glass vessels conceived to hold wishes, surrounded by reimagined silver objects, monumental necklaces of semi-precious stones, contemporary jewellery and glittering historic jewels. Petry's works are shown alongside the original illustrations that inspired them, with a particular focus on Aladdin, exploring fantasy, transformation, value, and how stories and images change as they travel between cultures and generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-genie-and-other-stories-36453/", "official_url": "https://www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org/whats-on/the-genie-and-other-stories/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f839369778a2ce871bf522f50e88d82a328110c4e83dab8c1702a12e264b71e9-600.webp"}, {"title": "Low Life", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "James Freeman Gallery", "address": "Upper Street 354, N1 0PD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/animals"], "description": "Low Life is an exhibition about animal instincts, mischief, otherness and rebellion. It presents work by two contemporary artists, Derrick Guild and Katrin Moye. Katrin Moye is a ceramic artist in Nottingham whose sculptures and glazed works take inspiration from nature's rebels and troublemakers, such as a drunken raccoon, a mole, pigeons and stubborn weeds. Derrick Guild is a Scottish artist whose paintings make surreal, playful connections across the European art canon, using animal portraiture and added lover's eyes to probe the animal instincts that lie beneath the human surface.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/low-life-36715/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9e958e4cd71e49d7be1d72e75550596c2f4b05ce3f40a9fa2f4c1aef60be991-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Data Melt", "start": "2026-07-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "SPACE Ilford", "address": "", "price": "Free and all welcome", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "nature/climate"], "description": "Data Melt is a free exhibition by artist Liberty Quinn at SPACE Ilford, running from July 2026 into January 2027. Her work examines how satellite imagery and digital technologies shape our understanding of climate breakdown in remote polar regions. The pieces explore how retreating ice sheets are captured from above and how that visual information is translated, fragmented and reconstructed into images. Ice and data merge to reflect on how we look at distant landscapes that most of us only access through screens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/data-melt-65186/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33450f06c2934843baef94bfbbe8e15d0753a6746d1ed804143784bf67a8e996-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Making Sense of Humanity", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "'Making Sense of Humanity' is a collaborative exhibition by two local creatives: contemporary jeweller and Society of Designer Craftsmen member Emily Smith, and fine artist Rosie Parmley, exploring themes of humanity. Since 2022, the two have put together an exhibition each year, working individually and coming together for these projects. The show is a mixed media collage of their work, blending paint, metal and ceramic, sharing contemporary styles, a passion for social and humanitarian values, and a use of figures. Each piece is handcrafted, and the curation invites visitors to sit, relax and take in the stories of our times in a fresh, engaging setting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/making-sense-of-humanity-42042/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a06da8c9d5beaa9ab6b665ee3f62c4d828f281f07fc5991ad17575ddfc5d71b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Voices in the Room", "start": "2026-06-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Foundling Museum", "address": "Brunswick Square 40, WC1N 1AZ London", "price": "Adult £14.50 (£13.50 online), Student (22+) £13 (£12 online), Reduced price £13 (£12 online), 21 & u", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "14.50", "tickets_url": "https://shop.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/products/general-admission", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Voices in the Room is a display of three contemporary artworks recently acquired by the Foundling Museum. The works are by Rachel Kneebone, Tamsin van Essen and Grayson Perry, and are shown for the first time as part of the permanent Collection. They offer fresh perspectives on the Foundling story, exploring care for children, memory, identity and belonging. Among them is Rachel Kneebone's ceramic sculpture Through a Glass III, 2023 and Tamsin van Essen's Entangled Roots, 2023.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-in-the-room-36164/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5828ed1dd8369ed5e60eeb98b48f39445d5b19874f03a955099fc4cc24132ae-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gathering Ground", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/membership", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "nature/environment"], "description": "Gathering Ground is an exhibition at Tate Modern exploring art's power to inspire change in today's ecological crisis. It brings together works from Tate's Collection highlighting the connection between environmental and social justice, inviting us to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and each other. Artists including Outi Pieski, Abbas Akhavan, Bruce Conner, Zheng Bo, Joydeb Roaja, Abel Rodriguez, Munem Wasif, Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo feature, alongside a new commission by Abbas Zahedi, honouring Indigenous knowledge, nurturing queer multispecies relations and documenting issues such as displacement and destruction of land and waterways. Set in a former oil and coal power station, the exhibition offers a shared space to reflect on our role in creating a more equal world, asking how we can be good Ancestors for future generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gathering-ground-38892/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca2f874a9082c1e73d112ff92bb7729f7c6e35916197269c3aa77468aa1a6fb8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Free Community Group Tours: Earthly Paradise", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Free guided tours for community groups of the exhibition Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK. The William Morris Gallery offers these tours to local community groups, faith groups and charities, for groups of 10 to 20 people. The exhibition explores the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years, highlighting individuals and communities who challenged social conventions and created new ways of living, working and imagining society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise-40318/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/961365502e1e4d8bc486274302d0ab68a8adf9f15d0c676286343240de4c0d62-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Remembrance", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Fen Court", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "Remembrance is an artwork shown on the digital ceiling at Fen Court, with red poppies falling slowly in a continuous drift. It was created by Skyframe as its first seasonal work, marking Remembrance Day with a moment of quiet reflection. The images are paired with Death of Åse from Grieg's Peer Gynt, chosen for its balance of quiet and emotional weight.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/remembrance-36096/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dee83e6d898bc11056aeafa1de9614ce0c85f05cde2936b2886cb3867592f41c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Liz Larner: A hard line to bend", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Arts Centre", "address": "Arkwright Road 52, NW3 6DG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of sculpture by Liz Larner, the first showing of her work at a major UK institution. The American sculptor presents works from roughly the last decade, including wall-mounted ceramic slabs and assemblages of single-use plastics alongside ceramic 'asteroids' named after female mythic figures. The show traces ideas of transformation, from ancient myth and cosmology to cycles of matter, and is anchored by a new work inspired by Lilith, incorporating a bronze-cast human hand, an owl foot and a branch from a tree by her studio. Working across clay, metal, wood and plastic, Larner proposes alternatives to humanity's path through the Anthropocene.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/liz-larner-a-hard-line-to-bend-35220/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6abd98745399a88137c2462e3cd104a45559da656a665a6df8f98665aec77972-2000.webp"}, {"title": "post-", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Heights", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A studio exhibition titled 'post-' at Heights. Curated by AxisAxis, it presents new works by Libby Hoffenberg and Louis Caseley. Responding to AxisAxis' site in a rapidly redeveloping Elephant & Castle, it explores how sites of artistic and administrative labour are continuously transformed, repurposed and reappropriated in both public and private spaces. It inhabits the gap between the expectations of a visionary future and the realities of a present that has failed to deliver.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/post-39387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295dd877a837fb8698840de0d4bf2b5ee6e63d8b635486313a8ee58e928dc4af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Paola Estrella: Deep Time Currents", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Orleans House Gallery", "address": "Riverside, TW1 3DJ Twickenham", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "An exhibition at Orleans House Gallery running from early October to late November. It is a new iteration of Paola Estrella's ongoing project The Cenote Ring, bringing together painting, moving image, sound and garments. Rather than presenting nature as a static landscape, it proposes a world in constant movement, where memory, geology and imagination flow together. Moving between deep time and the present, the works reflect on cycles of creation and collapse, ecological fragility and the relationships between bodies, water and the Earth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paola-estrella-deep-time-currents-37645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c4247e8454979896007e87739dc6f77a5198b985a436a962c7a4d0516c2ca389-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hand-in week for Patterns in Nature exhibition", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mill", "address": "Coppermill Lane 7-11, E17 7HA London", "price": "£12.50 per piece, or £6 per piece for unwaged", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art", "nature"], "description": "A hand-in week during which members of the local community can submit their own artwork for The Mill's upcoming exhibition on the theme of Patterns in Nature. The Mill, a community venue, is behind the exhibition, which invites work inspired by the shapes and colours of the natural world, from autumn leaves to waves, cells and spirals. Up to three pieces per artist are accepted in all media, ready for wall-hanging, with a submission fee per piece, and works may be offered for sale. The exhibition will then be on display at The Mill from late November into the new year.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hand-in-week-for-patterns-in-nature-exhibition-65743/", "official_url": "https://themille17.org/events/hand-in-week-for-patterns-in-nature-exhibition/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fdc3bccabde84f9d2e832253bc7fd48c6443d8b74f10211ec690d11214dbd487-1200.webp"}, {"title": "E M Forster’s Legacy of Connection", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, 32 to 38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA", "address": "", "price": "Admission Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait", "literature"], "description": "An exhibition of unseen memorabilia, letters, photographs and memories of the novelist E M Forster, alongside paintings by Jim Buckingham. Buckingham, Bob Buckingham's nephew, was inspired by Forster to pursue painting privately, and in his 80s holds never-recorded recollections of his 'Uncle Morgan' plus never-before-seen Forster items and his own life's work of paintings, including portraits of Forster. It celebrates Forster's maxim 'only connect' and his lifelong belief in gay rights and criticism of restrictions based on race and class. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/e-m-forsters-legacy-of-connection-69621/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbec2411ee6bc11b2de1fd2d1308c32f5c8747258b8398cda69c585f64a4a047-2000.webp"}]}