Join us for our next Stanley Picker Gallery Late to see a new scenes from “The Participation Waltz”, collectively created and performed by BA Drama and Dance students in collaboration with Dr Caoimhe Mader McGuinness and Sophie Huckfield. Over five weeks, Dr Caoimhe Mader McGuinness and Sophie Huckfield will work in the gallery with Performing … Sophie Huckfield and Alternative Productions
Join us for an afternoon of stories, discussion and exploration around the exhibition A Socially Useful Production: “The Participation Waltz”. We will be joined by Kathleen McCreery, co-writer and director of the play The Participation Waltz and co-founder of Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre; Phil Asquith, one of three surviving members of the Lucas Aerospace Combine … Kathleen McCreery, Phil Asquith and Sophie Huckfield
A Socially Useful Production of “The Participation Waltz” begins with The Lucas Plan, a radical proposal developed by workers at Lucas Industries in the UK in 1976 and was nominated for a Nobel Prize. Lucas Industries was a manufacturer with multiple sites across the UK which had its origins in Birmingham in the late 1900’s. By … A Socially Useful Production: “The Participation Waltz”
For four days in July, you can walk into a website. Inventory transforms Stanley Picker Gallery’s project space into an e-commerce store: visualizing the gallery as a brick-and-mortar retail space for pop-up launches. The show takes the logic of online shopping seriously, as the most pervasive language of transaction, desire, and technology-turned-tangible today. The exhibition … Inventory
Neurodivergent Voices is a showcase and celebration of art, perspective & creative diversity. From Your Healthcare CIC, a service provider supporting adults with autism and ADHD, twelve artists are showing work ranging from textile, photography, poetry and painting, to much more! Experience a vibrant exhibition showcasing work by neurodivergent artists. This exhibition highlights unique ways … Neurodivergent Voices
Fine Art Shorts is a showcase of student moving image. Twenty-four of our Kingston School of Art Fine Art students from first year BA through to the MA are showing videos ranging from three seconds to five minutes, including documentary, mockumentary, found footage, narrative fiction, animation and experimental practice. As part of Kingston School of … Fine Art Shorts 2026
We’ll be open late as part of Kingston Artists Open Studios, bringing together local artists to celebrate Open Waters, currently on view in our Project Studio. Marking the start of the bathing season, the evening offers a chance to spend time with the work of Kingston-based artists participating in the exhibition. Stanley Picker Fellows FRAUD … A Stanley Picker Gallery Late in collaboration with KAOS
To coincide with Kingston Artists Open Studios 2026, the Stanley Picker Gallery will host a six-day exhibition in our Project Studio featuring works selected through an open call. Titled Open Waters, the exhibition explores our relationship to water. The works span print, installation, painting, collage, photography, drawing and etching, engaging with childhood memories, local histories, … Open Waters
As part of FRAUD’s Stanley Picker Fellowship exhibition, A Simultaneous Agreement, the Gallery hosted the Bathing Request Public Consultation to gather public views and support. The consultation contributes to the visual evidence required for an application to DEFRA (the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) that will seek designated bathing water status for a … Bathing Request Public Consultation
“How do we move from a logic of resistance, of putting our bodies on the line, to one of reappropriation and collective joy, capable of sustaining all those infrastructures differently?” Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la vida. Herrero and Gago, 2023, p.15 As part of FRAUD’s Stanley Picker Fellowship project A Simultaneous Agreement we staged a … Public Performance Event with FRAUD