2025

Other Actors
Current Exhibition
8 May – 19 July 2025

Ilona Sagar Other Actors

Film length 59’40” restarting each hour Other Actors is a new, three-channel film piece by Stanley Picker Fellow Ilona Sagar, exploring the links between bodies and buildings, health and architecture through the lens of the Paimio Sanatorium in Finland. Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto and completed between 1929 and 1933, the sanatorium represents a Other Actors

Chimera (H±R-A) An Alternative Kingston Heritage Trail 
Current Exhibition / Offsite
24 May – 1 November 2025

Diana Puntar Chimera (H±R-A) An Alternative Kingston Heritage Trail 

Chimera (H±R-A) Historical Re-Anachronism is an alternative heritage and sculpture trail around Kingston town centre by artist Diana Puntar, co-commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University and the Royal Borough of Kingston for Kingston 2025. Pick up a free guide at one of the main trail venues or download it here. The trail features Chimera (H±R-A) An Alternative Kingston Heritage Trail 

Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Events for Families & Young People
Past Community / Send
20 – 22 March 2025

Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Events for Families & Young People

In consultation with Kingston Parent Carer Forum, Stanley Picker Gallery has become aware that there are hundreds of children and young people across our borough and beyond, who are struggling to attend school and unable to access the same facilities and educational and creative opportunities as their peers. We believe that everyone should have access to Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Events for Families & Young People

Beyond Margins: Publication as Exhibitions
Past Students
26 – 29 March 2025

BA Fine Art & BA Fine Art and Art History Beyond Margins: Publication as Exhibitions

Private View Wed 26 March | Open Thurs 27 – Sat 29 March 11am-5pm, all welcome!

Beyond Margins is the 7th year of the project Publication as Exhibition by students of the BA Fine Art and BA Fine Art and Art History Levels 4, 5 & 6. The publication both digitally and physically has continued to be a creative, conceptual and alternate space for artists to explore and disseminate their practice and Beyond Margins: Publication as Exhibitions

Well Books Fair
Past Event / Offsite
7 March 2025

Well Books Fair

Find Stanley Picker Gallery with recent artist publications, books, editions and more at Well Books Fair at FUSEBOX, Kingston 2, Buckland’s Wharf, Thames Side, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1TF. Join us for a day where books become bridges—between people, ideas, and the natural world. Hosted by Well Books, this fair brings together book artists, independent Well Books Fair

Making Time – Artangel and Partners
Current Offsite
1 January 2025 – ongoing

Making Time – Artangel and Partners

Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University with Warwick Institute of Engagement at University of Warwick are happy to be joining as new partners Artangel, Science Gallery London at King’s College London, and Radar at Loughborough University on Making Time, a development programme that supports artists to embed environmental consciousness in their practice. The programme highlights Making Time – Artangel and Partners

Half-Term Fun at Stanley Picker Gallery
Past Participation
19 February 2025

Half-Term Fun at Stanley Picker Gallery

Half-term February 2025 | Free | All Welcome

Pop into Stanley Picker Gallery this half-term and see our new exhibition Trust by artist Débora Delmar, which explores the physical and symbolic impacts of architecture present in gentrification, consumerism and surveillance in the urban environment. Inspired by the show, complete an image hunt for prizes and design and make your very own badge. Times SEND only Half-Term Fun at Stanley Picker Gallery