{"title": "River Claure", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by the photographer and visual artist River Claure, who makes constructed portraits and magical landscapes. He is from Bolivia, and his work reflects on landscape, Christian iconography, his family's history and his Indigenous roots, often creating with communities and using play to rearrange cultural codes, identities and social expectations. During the residency he plans to develop a series of self-portraits exploring the intersections between biblical iconography and the Latin American colonial photographic archive, visiting archives and museums in London to study the history of portraiture and self-representation. 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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://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/clare-granger-parallels-35487/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/72911c94c4e6679df579b12e6660e1e9dba4d52a82379c1edbb786d61cf71c46-1200.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://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/roots-39559/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f818861dcf24a700f3df307343302d93e76c7ef72f4fc42909ffec12726bdc94-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition: Painted Faces", "start": "2026-10-25T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "place": "Woolwich Works", "address": "No 1 Street 11, SE18 6HD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait"], "description": "Exhibition: Painted Faces is the debut solo exhibition of theatrical portraits by Clare Williams, shown in the Visitors' Book Café Bar at Woolwich Works. Drawing on 40 years of working in theatre, the portraits explore a world of artifice where costume and a painted face allow a new story to be told. Williams paints quickly and instinctively onto wooden panels without preliminary sketches, 'becoming' each character before reducing, rebuilding and reconstructing the work over a long process. 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The residency, hosted by arebyte Digital Art Centre with mentors including Pita Arreola, Jussi Koitela, Sam Mercer and Tanya Boyarkina, is part of an exchange programme with M-Cult in Helsinki and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland. Presnal has used photogrammetry to document the city's architecture and material culture, drawing on Situationist psychogeography to consider how agency is performed within the city. The residency is part of arebyte's 2026–2028 programme theme, REBOOT: Recoding Reality, exploring how artists can reimagine more equitable worlds.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/artist-talk-gabriella-presnal-34769/", "official_url": "https://www.arebyte.com/events/artist-residency-talk-gabriella-presnal", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/39276b298b1494acbdef371afdeeaf5c7d7f48bc7cd83e7c802dc3f341a2d038-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CASA: Lines of Flight", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ovalhouse Theatre", "address": "Kennington Oval 52-54, SE11 5SW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://brixtonhouse.co.uk/book-online/323857", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "CASA: Lines of Flight is a year-round multi-arts programme of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art, whose final chapter 'Acts of Looking' runs at Brixton House this autumn. It was conceived and curated by Gabriela Román González, Head of Exhibitions and Programmes at CASA, a company founded in 2007 that places Latin American, Caribbean and diasporic arts at the heart of the UK's cultural conversation. Across exhibitions, art residencies, dance, performance and celebration, the programme attends to forms of knowledge that often remain at the margins, from relationships with landscapes, rituals and ancestral memory to practices of rest, grief, joy and collective celebration. On this day it opens with 'Keeping Things Whole', a private viewing of an exhibition presented by CASA and Not The Owners, bringing together the work of Aileen Gavonel, Lucia Pizzani, María Helena Toscano, Mena Guerrero and Sebastián Espejo.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/casa-lines-of-flight-37685/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5ee23c7c697bcc5c0250c980b98e26181e770a94900cc9320e2dbae33423fde1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Artist Development Residency", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The Maite de Orbe Artist Development Residency is a residency programme at an arts institute on London's Mall. It is run by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, which named Maite de Orbe its Artist Development Resident for 2026. De Orbe is a Spanish, London-based artist working across photography, performance and moving image, whose practice explores identity making, sexuality, gender and queerness, belonging, migration and community. The residency offers time, space and institutional support for research and experimentation, with public sharing of work in progress rather than a single outcome.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/artist-development-residency-36641/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9c7bad58dd3fdbd723082697bdea853f3999861a959523bf3ed496096863919c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ghyzlène Boukaïla", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by artist Ghyzlène Boukaïla. Combining film, immersive installation and sculpture, her practice questions the thresholds of reality and fiction, drawing on historical and archival research to challenge existing narratives. At Gasworks she will focus on material research for her next film, which explores the Mediterranean Sea as a territory and its reappropriation, following a maritime smuggler whose acts of piracy become gestures of refusal. Boukaïla, born 1993 in Algiers, lives and works in Algiers.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/ghyzlene-boukaila-41423/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a90214290a08520574330625887883f0ef34b90fe4b68fd28f7372e4534c5760-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lorena Torres: Un Suspiro Lleno el Mundo", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Beetles + Huxley", "address": "Swallow Street 3-5, W1B 4DE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of sixteen new paintings by Colombian artist Lorena Torres, her second solo show with the gallery. Many works were made during her residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal, continuing her exploration of magical realism, figure, symbolism and folk cultures.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/lorena-torres-un-suspiro-lleno-el-mundo-41028/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9c64ff379ca505d6076e73bd5c6a15f034d582599b7a4d5bb24b653705555081-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition presented by The Koppel Project at Collective. It is the work of Zhiyan Liu, a London-based photographer, and centres on her maternal grandmother, whom she has called Laoniang since childhood. Through sustained engagement with the eighty-year-old's daily life — working the land, tending the courtyard, caring for animals and resting at home — the project explores kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination. It considers the tensions between familial care and personal autonomy, inviting a reconsideration of how lives are looked at and understood.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/laoniang-42455/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Message Is in the Pattern", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "The Message Is in the Pattern is the third edition of iniva's Post-National Digital Pavilion, a digital programme presented in collaboration with the British Council at the 61st Venice Biennale. 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. The programme runs online from 1 May to 30 November 2026, continuing iniva's transnational, research-led public programmes.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-message-is-in-the-pattern-60787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5a0979f0cd962a9acaffabcb74cfecb03fa4c4c6e1270c8b02b22bb88ad6ac3f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Paola Estrella: Deep Time Currents", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Orleans House Gallery", "address": "Riverside, TW1 3DJ Twickenham", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "An exhibition at Orleans House Gallery running from early October to late November. It is a new iteration of Paola Estrella's ongoing project The Cenote Ring, bringing together painting, moving image, sound and garments. Rather than presenting nature as a static landscape, it proposes a world in constant movement, where memory, geology and imagination flow together. Moving between deep time and the present, the works reflect on cycles of creation and collapse, ecological fragility and the relationships between bodies, water and the Earth.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/paola-estrella-deep-time-currents-37645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c4247e8454979896007e87739dc6f77a5198b985a436a962c7a4d0516c2ca389-1200.webp"}]}