{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Garden Museum", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tapinlondon.com/event/regulars-14xxodp/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' is an exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery celebrating tapestry as a vibrant and evolving art form of the 21st century. Created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios, it brings together more than 20 artists, with works made through collaborations between Dovecot's master weavers and leading artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Tania Kovats, Alberta Whittle, Rachel Maclean, Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi, alongside major new commissions. Presented to coincide with the Bayeux Tapestry's landmark return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years, it invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-exhibition-37555/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bd1f5acd97f097608e6c31cae9c62a91b0a88ccbe3f16bc28298c43ee73a56a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tapestry Weaving", "start": "2026-11-04T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T14:00:00Z", "place": "West Ealing Community Library", "address": "Melbourne Avenue, W13 9BA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/textiles/weaving"], "description": "Tapestry Weaving is a weekly session at West Ealing Library where participants turn yarn into beautiful tapestries. It is run by West Ealing Community Library and happens every Wednesday. The sessions suit all skill levels, teaching new techniques while encouraging people to bring their own designs to life. The library invites everyone to enjoy creating woven art in a welcoming environment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tapestry-weaving-40271/", "official_url": "https://wecl.org.uk/activities-and-events/tapestry-weaving-40/2026-10-28/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7473d74a15b3dac36d7ccf8337656d31e114e7eafdf8244aefdf25507fd2fd0b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Curator Tour – Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now", "start": "2026-11-11T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Free. Booking required.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition 'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' at Guildhall Art Gallery. The gallery's curator guides visitors through works by over 20 major British artists transformed into tapestry by Dovecot's expert weavers. The tour explores how art and craft intersect and how the heritage of tapestry has become a thriving contemporary medium, with expert commentary and the chance to ask questions. The tour lasts approximately one hour, is designed for adults with accompanied children welcome (suggested minimum age 8), and places are deliberately limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/curator-tour-beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-37605/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2efddba802b65606caa30901b5b082ca1db04fa0fd5f7d7f9aefface1933516-1200.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": "The Baa-Ewe Tapestry", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.nhm.ac.uk/events/GENAD-ADM", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "nature/animals"], "description": "The Baa-Ewe Tapestry is a seven-metre tribute to the mischief maker Shaun the Sheep, inspired by the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry. A section of it was knitted by Olympic gold medallist Tom Daley, founder of the knitting and crochet lifestyle brand Made With Love. The artwork comes ahead of the release of the Sky Original feature film Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. It can be visited free, drop-in, on the Ground Floor of the Darwin Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-baa-ewe-tapestry-41753/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e130352ae268ecf42e594176258be73192f72c8a89696f72a93f56dddd13f69-600.webp"}, {"title": "Tom Phillips featured in Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flowers Gallery", "address": "Kingsland Road 84, E2 8DP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "Tom Phillips is featured in 'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now', an external exhibition at Guildhall, London, running from 23 October 2026 to 21 March 2027. Created in collaboration with Guildhall Art Gallery, it celebrates the Bayeux Tapestry's arrival in the UK and brings together more than 20 artists redefining tapestry today. The show includes 'After Benches', 1973, by Tom Phillips CBE RA (1937-2022), alongside collaborations with Dovecot's master weavers and artists such as David Hockney and Yinka Shonibare, plus new commissions with Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi. It invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance in the 21st century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tom-phillips-featured-in-beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-69808/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1582e801cb01893193fe78daadd58d6617c169cb5d58a01400473425b167a141-1200.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": "‘Journeys – Wedding Shawls, Baghs and Phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection'", "start": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Osterley House", "address": "Jersey Road, TW7 4RB Isleworth", "price": "Free event (admission applies)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art"], "description": "An exhibition of intricately embroidered wedding shawls, baghs and phulkaris from the Karun Thakar Collection, displayed at Osterley House. The textiles were made by young women in the undivided Punjab for ceremonial use and fill Robert Adam's neoclassical rooms with colour and craft. They bring new energy and cultural presence to a property with strong links to global craftsmanship, trade and Empire through the East India Company.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/journeys-wedding-shawls-baghs-and-phulkaris-from-the-karun-t-63701/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99e741e00595ed5791c21ad40d527a15586095b3a06c7a56cb740984a3edd970-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Mini Ropery", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Whitechapel Gallery", "address": "Whitechapel High Street 77-82, E1 7QX London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts", "history/social-history"], "description": "The Mini Ropery is a drop-in, participatory event in which visitors can try making rope, string, braiding and knot tying. It is a smaller half-term return of The Ropery, a participatory exhibition about East London's rope making histories, co-created with designer Sanne Visser. Sanne Visser and Ropery Assistants will be on hand to help visitors explore the material processes of this endangered craft. Visser is a Dutch designer and researcher based in London whose work focuses on regenerative design and sustainable material innovation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-mini-ropery-40299/", "official_url": "https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/the-mini-ropery/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9480955c07b72b6ac249983e61b289c505f9b81139d07e897255c95e311584e5-600.webp"}, {"title": "CHARLIE SHEPPARD: DAISY CHAIN", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "8 Holland Street", "address": "Holland Street 8, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts/mosaic"], "description": "CHARLIE SHEPPARD: DAISY CHAIN is an exhibition of mosaic works held at the Kensington Gallery of 8 Holland Street. It presents a new body of mosaic works by Charlie Sheppard, a London-based artist whose practice centres on mosaic, spanning handcrafted ceramic works and large-scale murals. Daisy Chain celebrates the playful relationship between people and flowers, exploring how flowers invite our play yet resist full control. Sheppard uses organically cracked tile pieces as they lie, letting each crack inform the artwork as it happens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/charlie-sheppard-daisy-chain-34617/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bc05e6599878ed2cb3673d145442ded2335bc55b50e6dd05b7b6248793f02de-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Clare Granger Parallels", "start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cricket Fine Art", "address": "Park Walk 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "'Parallels' is a solo exhibition of paintings by Clare Granger at the London gallery Cricket Fine Art, showing works in oil on canvas such as 'Three Palm Trees' and 'Punting'. It is her fifth show with the gallery, and the paintings come together from parallel thoughts and observations of lives lived in different parts of the world. Granger takes inspiration from observing people and places far from her rural English life, finding parallels across East and West while exploring colour and the effects of light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-granger-parallels-35487/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72911c94c4e6679df579b12e6660e1e9dba4d52a82379c1edbb786d61cf71c46-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery", "address": "Conway Street 2, W1T 6BA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?\" is an exhibition of new paintings shown at an art gallery. It presents a new body of work by the British artist Richard Nott, taking its title from a 1961 folk anthem and filling the canvas with vivid, celebratory flowers rather than lamenting their disappearance. Nott reimagines floral forms drawn from historic Asian ceramics, Indian miniatures, Chinese painting and English embroidery, using layered, scraped and marbled paint applied mainly with palette knives. His engagement with floral motifs is rooted in a fashion career that began as a design assistant to Valentino and included co-founding the label Workers for Freedom, recipient of the 1989 Designer of the Year Award.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-70264/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cfdf152700a788fabde85d34f663154bb0471cf14ccdb7b0207872908f9d07fa-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": "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": "A Garden", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Cathedral", "address": "Cathedral Street, London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/visiting/cathedral-shop-and-online-store/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "'A Garden: Deborah Frank 2026' is a solo exhibition of oil paintings by artist Deborah Frank, on display in the Southwark Cathedral Cafe. Studying the botanicals within the Cathedral's herb garden, it showcases the plants and architecture at the centre of London Bridge and Borough Market. The work continues the artist's desire to document and look closer at the natural world, framing each herb with its surrounding architecture and foliage. Free entry, donations welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-garden-47455/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/664abc6fe52fdae765de078ff554e5cc970f63e0e2889d504111dd02d301612f-2000.webp"}]}