{"title": "Sculpted Heritage", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Heritage Centre and Walworth Library", "address": "Walworth Road 145-147, SE17 1RW London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "art/sculpture"], "description": "Sculpted Heritage is a month-long exhibition of sculptures, ceramics and wooden artefacts celebrating the artistic traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora. The works are curated from Lily Reddie's personal collection and invite visitors of all ages to explore their cultural stories, craftsmanship and creative expression. 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Touring from The Hepworth Wakefield and organised by it in collaboration with Orleans House Gallery, with artistic and curatorial collaboration from Kedisha Coakley, the show spans Moody's sculpture, poetry, writing and audio broadcasts. It traces his journey from dentistry training and self-taught carving to wooden figures of the 1930s and post-war experiments with concrete and resin, blending Modernism, spirituality and global mythologies. 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It is led by Kuda Mushangi, an award-winning London-based artist and architect whose practice explores migration, memory and belonging. The walk takes in sites speaking to East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, including works in Stroudley Walk and on St Paul's Way made with local schools and communities. Participants are invited to consider how public space holds multiple histories and to share their own memories and reflections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-pu-35044/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-public-art-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74d0ddaf428855060e861a2ad69f00fcdd7dcec0e4f8cfaea29d498f5555acf3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Decolonising Kingston: The Living Archive", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "place": "Kingston History Centre", "address": "", "price": "FREE Admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "The Living Archive is a community led exhibition exploring how history is recorded, who is remembered and how local people can become active authors of Kingston's story. It was developed through a partnership between the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Kingston Race and Equalities Council, local residents and artists, authors, curators and researchers Jaixia, Rong, and Jacqueline from Sharp Raiser Limited, and is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The exhibition celebrates the borough's diverse communities and addresses the underrepresentation of marginalized perspectives within local heritage archives, while honouring half a century of Kingston Race and Equalities Council's dedication to race equality, grassroots leadership, and cultural advocacy. 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The artist Rudy Loewe presents sculptures, paintings, text-based works and sound that imagine a mental healthcare system that is equitable and supportive. The works centre the lived experience of Black people in the UK whose mental healthcare is shaped by racist discrimination, and were developed with grassroots organisations including ADHD Babes, the Black Trans Foundation and Black and Neurodiverse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rudy-loewe-intimacies-of-care-spaces-of-grief-and-possibilit-40245/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b1421a7b63284a39aff2a305cc2ad51f882ddf0d9af26cd0207e46e5722a07f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Walking Tour: Bhajan Hunjan’s studio visit and exploring public art in East London with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A guided walking tour that begins with an introduction to 'Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials' at the Nunnery Gallery and a visit to the artist's studio at P1, where participants can meet and speak with her about her use of materials such as silk-screen printed glass, laser-cut acrylic and metal, and stonework in public art. Artist and architect Kuda Mushangi then leads a walk to explore Hunjan's public art commissions in East London, created with local schools and communities in Tower Hamlets, including Three Mills Pontoon (2011) along the Lea Canal and Stroudley Walk (2026), celebrating the legacy of the Suffragettes in Bow. The walk considers how public space can hold multiple histories and how art can function as cultural memory, touching on East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, and themes of empire, displacement, resilience and cultural exchange. Participants are invited to share their own memories and reflections, and will gather at the Nunnery Gallery at 10.45am for an 11am start.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-publi-35041/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-public-art-in-east-london-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7765bddff6be19007d3e05be8c6c571ca0183fe4d3b7802e43242547dff486e-2000.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": "SCULPTING LIGHT", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "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/textile-art"], "description": "SCULPTING LIGHT is an exhibition by Celia Dowson and Yoriko Murayama at Flow Gallery. Murayama works with tied, unrefined silk that keeps a hard translucency while the scoured thread turns white and lustrous, creating a depth filled with light. Dowson's work has satin qualities that give it an artifactual feel, weathered and ground down over time, with material that feels like time, movement, landscape and light. The exhibition runs into January 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sculpting-light-36120/", "official_url": "https://www.flowgallery.co.uk/blogs/exhibitions/celia-dowson-yoriko-murayama", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a85ab7bbff4fe75d4e97e173ea92f5fadc9d53cb3ed86cf5d4b901e75534b12-2000.webp"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "", "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. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. 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": "Lizner A hard line to bend", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "In the Building", "address": "", "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 brings together works mostly from the last decade, spanning clay, metal, wood and plastic. 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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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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": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. 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It is taught by Gillian Brett, a professional sculptor based at Chiswick House, whose public bronze sculpture of Fanny Wilkinson, the UK's first female landscape designer, was unveiled last year in Southfields and featured in The Guardian as well as BBC and ITV news. Suitable for absolute beginners and those with some experience, the small classes cover projects such as a portrait bust and a figurative sculpture, with tools, materials and equipment included. 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