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
We’re pleased to host a community-led programme as part of the official consultation period to gather evidence for an application to DEFRA seeking designated bathing water status for a section of the Hogsmill River close to the gallery. Taking place as part of FRAUD’s fellowship exhibition A Simultaneous Agreement the gallery is hosting creative workshops, … Week of events to support DEFRA application
“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 are staging … Public Performance Event with FRAUD
Stanley Picker Gallery is excited to continue running our popular Art Club for children ages 7-11 from our local community who are enthusiastic about art and design. Workshops are FREE for all and run most Saturdays, 11am-12.30pm. All sessions are led by a team of Kingston School of Art students and alumni, and will complement the gallery’s … Saturday Art Club at Stanley Picker Gallery
This is the 8th year of the Fine Art Exhibition as Publication Project from Kingston School of Art’s BA Fine Art & Fine Art and Art History. Students across all 3 levels have realised their ideas, concepts, and work through a wide variety of approaches to the format of publication. Artist’s books occupy a unique … EAP8: Exhibition as Publication
A Journey Through Kingston is an original large-scale drawing by London-based ActionSpace artist Ian Wornast which is now permanently on display on the side of the new Unilever Campus in Kingston. It was launched in June 2025 as part of the Kingston 2025 festival. Following a series of research trips to Kingston upon Thames, Ian … A Journey Through Kingston
A Simultaneous Agreement is Stanley Picker Fellow FRAUD’s (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo) latest body of work which centres on the circulation of nutrients and infrastructures permeating the current UK water crisis. Examining the intimacy between the fertiliser mine and the treatment plant, the project asks, when minerals move across the earth what do they … A Simultaneous Agreement
A weekend to celebrate the closing of Attack Decay Sustain Release Release opens up the gallery after hours in celebration for an evening of live sound performances, collaborations and resonant experiments. Join us for the culmination of ten weeks of sound based residencies as we share all the frequencies the space has absorbed, held and amplified. … A Stanley Picker Gallery Late and Final Day Drop In
PART I Peaks of mica kept watch over their long marches. How could these panoramas be rendered credible? There were too many sides; the cubes had extra faces. The company of volcanos gave the sky interiors. – César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (Translated by Chris Andrews) An … Castles in the Air: A Dialogue, an Essay, a Fugue, and a Poem (Part 1)