{"title": "Mapping a practice: Positioning your work in the art world", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "From £81", "price_from": "90.00", "price_to": "90.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A one-day workshop at the National Gallery's Roden Centre for Creative Learning for anyone aged 18 or over, from amateur to professional artists. It is led by artist, researcher and educator Tom Lovelace, who draws on his 'Living Pictures' series and doctoral research at the University of Westminster. The workshop explores how artists develop their creative identity, using the National Gallery Collection as a starting point for reflecting on your influences and how your work relates to the wider art world. Through active looking, group discussion and practical writing exercises, you will also learn how to frame your work with language, from titling to artist statements.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mapping-a-practice-positioning-your-work-in-the-art-world-78911/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/mapping-a-practice-positioning-your-work-in-the-art-world-14-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/888b17b0401154805d743851516d6509fa69e993de04eca6724dca7eb6506680-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. 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It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Arts Centre", "address": "Arkwright Road 52, NW3 6DG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund, working with artists and young people in the local area. 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A Sharing Day on 29 October 2026 from 2–6pm offers workshops by some of the artists involved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-73862/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art of conversation: 10-minute Talk", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A ten-minute gallery talk at the National Gallery called 'Art of conversation', part of a series of talks and conversations. Speaker Erin-Jane Golding, a multidisciplinary creative, artist and cultural programmer who develops events at the National Gallery, leads it, inspired by the exhibition 'Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation'. The talk asks how we should converse with art, challenging the worry that visitors need art-historical knowledge or the 'right' interpretation to engage with a painting. Drawing on her own reflections, Erin invites everyone to explore looking, questioning and interpretation, celebrating that there is no single way to make meaning from art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-78909/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-autumn-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bac510622656a1288bab8efe51b6b567a1ebb981f12ed44d3ff19f17ed58923-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Season 1: Mapping Your Practice", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary", "community"], "description": "A workshop session opening the first season of ICA Creatives × RESOLVE, a programme of workshops, conversations and site visits. It is run with RESOLVE, an interdisciplinary design collective working across architecture, engineering, technology and art. The season introduces participants to Starting from the Endz, RESOLVE's framework centring the local knowledge, lived experience and creativity of young people as a starting point for collective learning. Activities include emotional mapping, collaborative making sessions and visits to organisations working with and for young people, leading to a youth-led symposium in December 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/season-1-mapping-your-practice-36631/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1b7873597dbda49982a87f1a64ed4bd5c164b11a0212d66bec9e1f2412bcd86-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Groundwork — Early Career Programme exhibition", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Acme Studios", "address": "44 Copperfield Road, Bow, E3 4RR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "Groundwork is an exhibition marking the culmination of a year-long residency as part of Acme's Early Career Programme. It features works by Sam Meredith, Anouk Verviers, Joseph Ijoyemi, and Anna Malicka, spread across three levels of Kupfer. The artists present site-specific interventions responding to the building's architecture, reflecting their experience of sharing a studio over the past year. The title evokes beginnings, foundations, and the often-unseen labour underpinning the creative process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/groundwork-early-career-programme-exhibition-95580/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "An Artist in Everyday Life", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "place": "The Forum", "address": "Bardolph Avenue 1, CR0 9BG Croydon", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/mental-health", "art"], "description": "An Artist in Everyday Life is a relaxed workshop about artistic practice, mental health and materials from everyday life. It is led by artist Andrea Mindel and is inspired by 'Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions', looking at how creativity can serve as a tool in managing mental and physical wellbeing. Participants are introduced to Audrey Amiss's life and work, experiment with everyday materials such as paper, foil and plastic scraps, and create a fabric collage and visual diary to take away. All materials are provided, and attendees are invited to bring receipts, notes, wrappers, pamphlets and fabric scraps from their daily life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/an-artist-in-everyday-life-40247/", "official_url": "https://wellcomecollection.org/events/an-artist-in-everyday-life", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ffc7a9909fc189d0e9726c34cfd9a443edfcf54d4c953d3d4f3312b392aa60b6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Creative Flow: From Limitation to Possibility", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "place": "Firepit Art Gallery", "address": "Cutter Lane 10, SE10 0XX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "Creative Flow: From Limitation to Possibility is a mindful art and self-discovery salon at an art gallery. It explores imagination, possibility and the vision of a more whole, expansive self through symbolic painting and creative reflection. It is led by Octavia Xiaozi Yang, a jewellery designer and somatic art practitioner who founded Jewelology, mindful art and jewellery workshops that turn reflection into wearable pieces. She holds an MA in Jewellery Design and is trained in ISAT Guided Drawing and Clay Field.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/creative-flow-from-limitation-to-possibility-78667/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3acd982d9404c70ed56b91e03c655fc3a50c146cfe59c0ff7539408cc4b69cc3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fresh takes: Art in 10 minutes", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A short 10-minute lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, part of the monthly Fresh takes series. The speaker is Tia Grant, an alumnus of the Gallery's Articulation initiative, which helps young people aged 16–19 build research and presentation skills and invites them to give 10-minute talks on works of art. She revisits her talk on Pietro Longhi's painting A Fortune Teller at Venice, offering fresh perspectives on the Venetian scene and the stories and mysteries at its heart. The free session is open to everyone in Room 33.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-78901/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-06-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15a4b3b848068842b10d27a72b1c00c686328c296192a483295f5a0837b53e58-2000.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", "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": "Care Constellations by Kat Cotta", "start": "2026-11-05T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Orleans House Gallery", "address": "Riverside, TW1 3DJ Twickenham", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/biology/ecology", "art/collage"], "description": "A two-hour creative and practical workshop at Orleans House Gallery exploring care as an interconnected, collective resource that can sustain us in times of ecological crisis. Participants create individual stars reflecting their everyday experiences of care, then bring them together to form constellations, considering what needs protecting, changing or repairing. Kat Cotta, a creative producer, artist and facilitator who has worked across arts-education and non-profit sectors on climate and social justice projects, leads the session. Collage and natural materials, pens and paint are provided, and visitors may bring a small personal object that represents care to them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/care-constellations-by-kat-cotta-70112/", "official_url": "https://orleanshousegallery.org/events/care-constellations-by-kat-cotta/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Niovi Kafantari, The Necessary Other", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Opera Gallery London", "address": "65 - 66 New Bond Street, W1S 1RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "'The Necessary Other' is a contemporary art exhibition of new paintings by Niovi Kafantari, her first solo exhibition in London, running into early November. It explores how identity is shaped through encounter, taking its title from Adriana Cavarero's philosophy of relational identity: the self comes into being through the presence, memory and gaze of another. Trained as a sculptor, Kafantari builds her paintings through mass, with figures that lean, embrace, support or resist one another, drawing upon archaeology, cinema, theatre, literature and art history. Works such as 'Just Met', 'A Pastoral Fragment', 'Last Tango' and 'Married, a second time' leave intimacy, vulnerability and ambiguity deliberately unresolved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/niovi-kafantari-the-necessary-other-41790/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e254166bad64bbaa960c78304d03e6a7a0689ac3d70479663647526710d6f038-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collage Club at The Living Room", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Christopher's", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage"], "description": "Collage Club at The Living Room is a welcoming space to get creative, experiment and meet others through collage. The first theme is The Double, exploring mirroring, copying, tracing, repetition and reflection through collage and conversation. Visual artist Rakesh Mohindra and artist/poet Patrick Cosgrove facilitate this session of a six-part series, with guided conversation and creative collage making; no previous experience is needed and all materials are provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collage-club-at-the-living-room-93242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad35719584259e447c44a7acfeaac8ead7c69e82db995e65209887c113f92e04-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Look and Draw", "start": "2026-11-12T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A guided drawing session in front of a vast seascape painting, held in the Great Gallery of the museum. Tutor Karly Allen leads participants through looking closely at Van de Velde's work and translating it into black-and-white mark-making with pen and paper. No experience is needed and all materials are provided, with places free but limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/look-and-draw-39907/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/look-and-draw-49/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0777969c427a36039c411e81c8da7fb75f9761ff9d1938cadf3c80b90b36f7f9-1200.webp"}]}