{"title": "Gallery 1885 Exhibition: Masks of Becoming Miguel Sobreira", "start": "2026-09-28T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gallery 1885", "address": "Bowden Street 16, SE11 4DS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "\"Masks of Becoming\" is an exhibition of photographs at Gallery 1885. It features the work of Miguel Sobreira, a London-based artist born in Cape Town to Portuguese parents, who works across photography, textiles, sculpture and performance. He sews masks and veils from fabric and found materials, often appearing as the subject of his own photographs. The work explores identity, belonging, ancestry, family, ritual and the queer experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gallery-1885-exhibition-masks-of-becoming-miguel-sobreira-78697/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b659ddd340e2341a26f3d921d9f8f0309679def52d1990ce33479a1a4b5de323-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-28T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gallery 1885", "address": "Bowden Street 16, SE11 4DS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Miguel Chevalier Beyond Retina", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mayor Gallery", "address": "Cork Street 21, W1S 3LZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "An exhibition of new works by Miguel Chevalier titled Beyond Retina, shown at The Mayor Gallery. For more than four decades the artist has investigated the relationship between nature and artifice, as well as the invisible flows that shape contemporary societies. The exhibition explores the transformation of vision in the age of artificial intelligence, when seeing extends through intelligent cameras, algorithms and neural networks. It brings together robotic drawings, laser-engraved digigraphs on aluminium, 3D-printed sculptures, video works and an interactive installation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/miguel-chevalier-beyond-retina-65736/", "official_url": "https://www.mayorgallery.com/exhibitions/637-miguel-chevalier-beyond-retina/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/604b03e73724537b1c810bd9341ad6cf1a589dee97328987b6de64c79beaed5c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beauty Fall — Sabrina Tirvengadum", "start": "2026-04-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "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", "wellness/beauty"], "description": "Beauty Fall is a free solo exhibition by deaf British Mauritian artist Sabrina Tirvengadum, turning the gallery into a satirical beauty salon. It features AI-generated beauty ads, a face-morphing mirror and installations exposing colonial influences on algorithmic beauty standards. Drawing on her childhood wish to be pretty and archival family photographs, including 3D-printed masks of her grandparents, it explores how Western and social media beauty ideals distort identity and self-esteem. Visitors are invited to question how beauty is measured, confront their own reflections and reclaim traits that beauty culture seeks to erase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beauty-fall-sabrina-tirvengadum-65185/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a18e35bb07754daabc38505658154c6805b33fa65f79c4fb89e0380a745507c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Reclaiming the Archives", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00Z", "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "£12–£17", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stmargaretshouse/2364337/select-date?ref=website_widget&show_event_filter=false", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "\"Reclaiming the Archives\" is a hands-on creative workshop at which participants turn their personal photographs into a zine using stitch, writing and collage. It is facilitated by Caroline Lacoma, a London-based self-taught visual artist born in Guadeloupe whose work explores transformation, rebirth and the self. The workshop invites participants to consider the photographs they have inherited, collected or taken and the stories they tell about family, identity, memory and belonging. No previous artistic or zine-making experience is required, all materials are provided, and participants may bring printed photographs to work on.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reclaiming-the-archives-38782/", "official_url": "https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/reclaiming-the-archives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea9c53d56c3c2aafda236f2ac05744c2a292f8c209d434c19caef2c2a88ed03f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween Craft Workshop", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dorich House Museum", "address": "Kingston Vale 67, SW15 3RN London", "price": "5 GBP", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/halloween-craft-workshop-tickets-2002218801333?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A family friendly Halloween workshop where participants make their own Halloween masks and posters. Local artist Anna Milgrom leads the session, held in the first floor modelling studio designed by Dora Gordine for her creative practice. It is open to people of all ages and abilities, with no previous experience required, and children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Everyone takes home their own mask or poster at the end.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-craft-workshop-35610/", "official_url": "https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/2026/09/25/halloween-craft-workshop-saturday-31-october-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3605b746e358668e0b374259d33d602ef128c344c9d0d71de79b24d8b789d1f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Portrait Gallery", "address": "WC2H 0HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery exploring queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain's foremost photographers. It presents new portraits by Tim Walker, who spent five years photographing dozens of activists, performers, artists, and writers in his whimsical, fairytale-inspired style. Curated by Susanna Brown, the show combines exuberant portraits and fantastical landscapes in a celebration where everyone has the freedom to be themselves, accompanied by a new book with contributions by Travis Alabanza, Russell T Davies, Shon Faye, Lisa Power and Joelle Taylor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tim-walkers-fairyland-love-and-legends-78924/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Zanele Muholi - Faces and Phases (2006-2026) UK Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-07T12:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00Z", "place": "House of Sisters Grimm", "address": "Eastcastle Street 23-25, London", "price": "£39 (with code MUHOLI39, excluding first row VIP)", "price_from": "49.00", "price_to": "95.00", "tickets_url": "https://houseofsistersgrimm.com/group-bookings/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society/queer"], "description": "A UK book launch and signing celebrating twenty years of the portrait series Faces and Phases by South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, winner of the 2026 Hasselblad Award. Edited by Renée Mussai and published by MACK, the book brings together more than 300 largely unpublished photographs, personal testimonies, essays and an interview championing the visibility and dignity of Black LGBTQIA+ communities. The launch, co-produced by Michael Burgess of Creative Resilience International with support from MACK and Southern Guild, includes an artist conversation, signing sessions, photographs and a reception, with INALA performances the same day. Books will be available to purchase at the launch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/zanele-muholi-faces-and-phases-2006-2026-uk-book-launch-36562/", "official_url": "https://houseofsistersgrimm.com/events/zanele-muholi-faces-and-phases-2006-2026-uk-book-launch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/465fcc573c28f3c4e78c80edb42382775284fc607b5bc0b34fbf76a02d9e227e-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Coming of Age", "start": "2026-03-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "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": ["society/aging", "art"], "description": "'The Coming of Age' is a free exhibition about growing old, exploring experiences and perceptions of ageing from adolescence to later life. It asks how societies can adapt for everyone to age better, and how experiences of age are shaped by our environment, culture and society. The exhibition brings together 150 artworks and objects, from historical artefacts to contemporary works by artists including John Coplans, Serena Korda, Suzanne Lacy, Anna Maria Maiolino, Rory Pilgrim and Paula Rego. It is held at Wellcome Collection on Euston Road in London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-coming-of-age-40243/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d1cac3ba10df17a62a52399ec4cdf63b24a11e99d9f85d925a7b84eea4f59a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Myth Migration", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/surrealism"], "description": "Myth Migration is an art exhibition inspired by Carmen Herrera's change in style after her move from Cuba to Paris in the late 1940s. It centres on a group of 20th-century artists who moved to spend formative time within new communities of artists and writers, from Mexico City and São Paulo to London and New York. The show groups related works made during and in the decades after World War II, each charting a new geographic or stylistic horizon, including an early, never-before-seen figurative work by Herrera. Featuring artists such as Wifredo Lam, Leonora Carrington, Alice Rahon, Mira Schendel and Chen Kong-Fang, it weaves through movements like Surrealism, Neo-Concretism and Existentialism to trace how each adopted country shaped their artistic practices.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/myth-migration-49193/", "official_url": "https://lisson.com/exhibitions/myth-migration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc667706dce00810697881dda2b978b89ac48f0efb0c628ed3d7d666ffd3205f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Roots", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "from £665 + VAT", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/plants/trees", "art/photography"], "description": "\"Roots\" is a group exhibition at The Print Sales Gallery exploring trees, memory, cultural heritage and belonging through photography and mixed media across global landscapes. The show brings together works by Julie Cockburn, Paul Cupido, Gohar Dashti, Chrystel Lebas, Miho Kajioka, Michael Kenna, Ingrid Weyland and Pentti Sammallahti. It considers trees as living embodiments of origin, memory and belonging, symbols of cultural heritage and archives of collective memory. The works invite us to consider the reciprocal relationships between people and place and to act as guardians for the forests that sustain us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/roots-39559/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f818861dcf24a700f3df307343302d93e76c7ef72f4fc42909ffec12726bdc94-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sanlé Sory: Colour Years", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "In-person + £2 donation: £14 (Concs: £11 / Art Pass: £8). Online + £2 donation: £12 (Concs: £9.50 / ", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173692530/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society/africa"], "description": "Sanlé Sory: Colour Years is an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery showing the rarely seen colour photographs of Burkinabé photographer Sanlé Sory for the first time in the UK. Sory, one of West Africa's most prolific photographers, began making colour portraits in his Volta Photo studio in the mid-1980s after becoming known for his black-and-white studio and nightlife pictures. The meticulously restored colour prints capture daily life, youth culture, music and fashion in Burkina Faso across decades of political shifts, alongside Volta Jazz record covers featuring his portraits. Curated by Taous Dahmani and produced by The Photographers' Gallery, the show is drawn from the Sanlé Sory Archive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sanle-sory-colour-years-39556/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee4edb06bfaef7afc39933e7ea5f6651986207ce20889ff8675e5eb20f65a5a1-1200.webp"}]}