{"title": "Flared, Straight and Tall", "start": "2026-07-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "Admission free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts/woodwork"], "description": "A solo exhibition of handcrafted woodturning. It presents bowls, tall forms and decorative fruit by West Sussex-based woodturner Ian Payne, a member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. His flared and straight-sided works, made from local and sustainably sourced hardwoods, highlight the natural beauty of the material, with some pieces using an ebonising technique documented as early as the 16th Century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flared-straight-and-tall-42040/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2dec4666bfaeb99d5e175171d914ace5799c915e8b464b5afeec852d55f02477-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-07-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Uncommon Ground", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "Admission free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "Uncommon Ground is the Society of Designer Craftsmen's prestigious annual exhibition, held at Oxo Gallery on London's South Bank. 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Byrne follows a long tradition of artist-painted furniture, from folk art to the Bloomsbury group, decorating functional household objects. His recurring painted oak leaf adorns a mid-century cabinet, portraits appear of his companions Thistle the house rabbit and Misha the dog, and an autumnal tree sheds its leaves like confetti across wardrobe doors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-byrne-blurred-boundaries-39191/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dfd55dd2c7410c20249e8f938a5ea1246e860051120e38ca45ee49636fad3bc9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Arthur Boyd Presents 'Madder'", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jamboree", "address": "St Chad's Place 6, London", "price": "£14 advance", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arthur-boyd-madder-tickets-2003420949992", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/fashion", "music/folk"], "description": "Arthur Boyd Presents 'Madder' is a fashion presentation and folk miscellany of music, poetry and performance. Inspired by British ecology, seasonality and the culture and music arising from their intertwining, it is an honouring of slowness and deliberate attentive craft. It showcases a collection of garments made over the past year and a half, with cloth hand-dyed in partnership with Frankie Tobin using foraged plants from London and Oxfordshire. The show features traditional and contemporary folk music and poetry from performers including Michael Rice, Lileth Chinn, Hani Hooper, Holly Kirkby and D.R.R. Sidaway, with special guests still to be announced.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arthur-boyd-presents-madder-60802/", "official_url": "https://www.jamboreevenue.co.uk/events/arthur-boyd-presents-madder/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/165bd597193e61acae2085b873311976cc5c6390198d22dbc5fa3d1e2e192d87-600.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": "Cabinets Unlocked, 17 Oct–1 Nov 2026", "start": "2026-10-17T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ham House", "address": "", "price": "Free event (admission applies)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts"], "description": "Cabinets Unlocked is a rare chance to see inside Ham House's highly decorative cabinets, which are opened just twice a year to protect their pristine interiors. Over twenty prized cabinets and writing desks will be opened and on display, along with strongboxes and miniature cabinets, coinciding with the conservation team's condition checks. The collection includes marquetry, lacquer and exquisite veneers from Japan, China, Holland and England, with highlights such as the Ivory Cabinet from around 1660 and the Marquetry Cabinet, one of the earliest recorded examples of floral marquetry in England. From 19 to 23 October, volunteer guides will also give short pop-up talks in the Long Gallery, subject to volunteer availability.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cabinets-unlocked-17-oct1-nov-2026-36376/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "aRTy Works", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Arts Depot", "address": "Nether Street 5, N12 0GA London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.artsdepot.co.uk/visit/booking-information/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "aRTy Works is a free exhibition displayed on the cafe exhibition wall at artsdepot, with no booking required. It is presented by Rosanna Taylor, a local Finchley artist and long-standing member of Finchley Art Society who has painted all her life. The exhibition is a collection of the many artworks that have inspired her along her life's journey. She has no preference for any medium, choosing between oil, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and watercolour according to what the subject suggests.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arty-works-73809/", "official_url": "https://www.artsdepot.co.uk/exhibition/arty-works/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7856cdf3426f686107c5f709fb5cb194f2a73883c901088ada2b837e54496877-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Merano x Casa Vayu", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Monocle", "address": "Chiltern Street 34, W1U 7QH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://monocle.com/subscribe", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/fashion", "diy/making"], "description": "An evening hosted by Monocle together with the Zürich-based fashion studio Casa Vayu, the second such evening devoted to the label. It presents Casa Vayu's latest ED06 collection alongside urushi lacquer works by the Japanese artist Toshihiko Iwata, bringing together two practices united by an interest in material, intuition and the process of making. Visitors can meet the label's founder, Anya Karolina, explore the line-up and enjoy a drink on the house.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/merano-x-casa-vayu-50315/", "official_url": "https://monocle.com/events/merano-x-casa-vayu-merano-friday-30-october/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b7536a4dd0f6bec484bf69c6758ca63051ce86ccb013aa08aa9b292e331137d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Endangered Crafts", "start": "2026-07-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "Admission fee applies", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts/glass"], "description": "'Endangered Crafts' is an exhibition showcasing glass skills that are endangered, critically endangered or extinct in the UK, as identified by the Heritage Crafts Red List. It was organised by Elena Fleury-Rojo and brings together work in at-risk techniques, from scientific glassblowing and neon making to copper-wheel engraving and stained glass. The aim is to highlight the importance of preserving these traditional skills and celebrate the makers keeping them alive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/endangered-crafts-42039/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e7f3ab7550d583980b32b95eeab1a0dcf05bbb63eae7312cbaa2407595ff49c7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thursday Late: Still Life, Then and Now", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free with general admission; pay what you can for local residents; drawing workshop £14 / £10 for Ea", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/book-tickets/?eventid=1001ADGKSHLJDTDBJQTBMGLLJRLBJCMNN", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/painting/still-life"], "description": "An evening late-opening at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery built around the theme of Still Life, from past to present, during the final days of the exhibition Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons. Pitzhanger's Director Rebecca Lyons leads a guided tour tracing Still Life from seventeenth-century Dutch painters to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern painters through the lens of Woods's works. Annabel Johnson leads a relaxed drawing session inspired by the flowers and objects in Clare Woods's paintings, with materials provided and all levels welcome. Some parts of the evening require separate tickets, including the drawing workshop, which has limited capacity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thursday-late-still-life-then-and-now-38066/", "official_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/whatson/thursday-late-still-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4203136752e4d80497d917d315825ba28d003b8569000d74c57b361b7f42b496-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rhythms of Making – Iva Polachova & Lizzie Kimbley", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flow Gallery", "address": "Needham Road 1-5, W11 2RP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.flowgallery.co.uk/collections/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "\"Rhythms of Making\" is a winter exhibition at Flow Gallery exploring the rhythms of making in ceramics and weaving. Ceramicist Iva Polachova builds forms through repetitive hand-building techniques, marking her surfaces with her signature patchwork of parallel lines, and creates bowls, cups, jugs, decorative vessels and sculptural pieces. Weaver and textile artist Lizzie Kimbley makes wall-pieces inspired by daily walks in the marsh and meadows near her Norfolk home, working with woven textiles, natural dyes and basketry techniques. Her pieces combine reclaimed and re-imagined materials, including linen offcuts, handmade cordage, paper yarn and industry waste yarn, celebrating time spent in nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rhythms-of-making-iva-polachova-lizzie-kimbley-36129/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9555ef79f914b24d428f1611dddb61be4ef8441954c29feda80aadc2d3e38ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stained Glass Exhibition", "start": "2026-07-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "Standard National Trust admission fee", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts/glass"], "description": "An exhibition of stained-glass panels created for the National Trust at Killerton House in Devon. SDC member Patricia Dixon worked with staff, volunteers, visitors and community partners at Killerton House, choosing objects from the collection that were brought to life in creative workshops. The interpretations from these workshops became the stained-glass designs on display in the Study.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stained-glass-exhibition-43671/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0a669806bbb217173817605cdc638af0e6b99009f10a4a8401bb9c3182c82f7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons", "start": "2026-07-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery", "address": "", "price": "£14 Standard, £7 Students, free for Members and Under-16s", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/book-tickets/?eventid=1001ADGKSHLJDTDBJQTBMGLLJRLBJCMNN", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition called Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons, showing 29 new and recent paintings, collages and prints made over the last four years. The artist Clare Woods draws on flowers, still life and the natural world, including plants seen through glass at Kew Gardens and roses inspired by George Orwell's garden. Her works move between abstraction and figuration, mixing vibrant wet-look oil paint with reflections on time, absence and death. The exhibition fills the rooms and galleries of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-woods-garden-without-seasons-38059/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4605e92ebf31b43e0e9d259a7bc802af008e2bd05df0ea0cd90085f8b70b946e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mindful Art Observations", "start": "2026-11-02T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T10:45:00Z", "place": "Barts North Wing", "address": "St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE", "price": "Free, no booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Mindful Art Observations is a short drop-in session exploring the William Hogarth paintings through 'slow looking', a technique that invites you to slow down and dive deeper into the paintings through mindful observations. The sessions are led by the Barts Heritage Engagement Team. They run across several dates, with upcoming dates listed on the what's on page. The event is free and no booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mindful-art-observations-60008/", "official_url": "https://bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/mindful-art-observations-666/?occurrence=2026-11-02&", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68f357d810a4c041b896b9713748ddfb3eab6738b7f88a238cf1c2fa14fb1e27-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Threads of Ascent: Tapestries by Clare Woods", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Garden Museum", "address": "", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry", "nature/plants"], "description": "An exhibition of three large-scale handwoven tapestries by Clare Woods, shown at the Garden Museum. The artist made them in collaboration with weavers at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, working from small watercolours of climbing weeds. Bindweed on a high-security fence, a passion fruit vine over a Los Angeles chain-link fence, and common vetch in an abandoned allotment turn overlooked plants into monumental woven landscapes. The free exhibition coincides with a new display of the museum's 17th-century Mortlake tapestry, celebrating 400 years of tapestry-making in the UK.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/threads-of-ascent-tapestries-by-clare-woods-36213/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d75e7571b886b3334ff291c07370fe0a4fbcacbf88d3a12e976411f8b96bd210-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Other Glass", "start": "2026-08-27T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "Admission fee applies", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts/glass"], "description": "The Other Glass is an exhibition of contemporary glass art made from recycled, repurposed, second-life and geo-specific glass. Ten artists from seven countries, including Hannah Gibson, show sculptures, stained glass, jewellery and functional objects from materials like discarded bottles, windows, TV tubes, jam jars and local river sand. Curated by artist and author Tone Ørvik, the exhibition focuses on the story, origins, history and second life of the glass itself, celebrating its resilience and beauty.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-other-glass-42041/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09b7718fe00eee9ceb2c8825e408d01e2851e69d1084375e6086239d567e2fef-600.webp"}, {"title": "Town and Country", "start": "2026-10-06T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-20T17:00:00Z", "place": "Bar Gallery", "address": "Bride Lane Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8EQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "An exhibition of works by Peg Morris, an artist who specialises in etching and also makes mezzotints, lithographs, collagraphs, Tetrapak prints, monotypes and watercolour paintings. Her work is rooted in observation and drawing, and since moving to the Surrey Hills in 2021 after thirty years in London she has drawn inspiration from the ancient trees and trackways of that landscape. The exhibition features pieces from before and after this move, showing the shift in focus of her work from town to country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/town-and-country-74842/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f97c45c60d041937fc2c5b8509a891c851f8a0934543955358f6cdc0f3f9333c-2000.webp"}]}