2026

Bathing Request Public Consultation
Past Event
16 June – 18 July 2026

Hogsmill Community Programme with FRAUD Bathing Request Public Consultation

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

Saturday Art Club at Stanley Picker Gallery
Current Community / Participation
26 September – 19 December 2026

Saturday Art Club at Stanley Picker Gallery

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 … Saturday Art Club at Stanley Picker Gallery

EAP8: Exhibition as Publication
Past Students
30 April – 2 May 2026

BA Fine Art & Fine Art and Art History Students EAP8: Exhibition as Publication

Launch event: Thursday 30 April 3:30-5:30pm | All Welcome!

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 Stanley Picker Gallery Late and Final Day Drop In
Past Event
27 – 28 March 2026

Release A Stanley Picker Gallery Late and Final Day Drop In

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

Castles in the Air: A Dialogue, an Essay, a Fugue, and a Poem (Part 1)
Past Online

Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton Castles in the Air: A Dialogue, an Essay, a Fugue, and a Poem (Part 1)

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)

Clout Transfer
Past Online

George Kafka Clout Transfer

“Design Researchers in Residence is one of the Design Museum’s longest-running programmes.” During three years working as the curator of the residency programme at the museum, between 2021 and 2024, I gave countless introductions to the programme and habitually – almost unthinkingly – opened with that same line. It seems a fairly mundane assertion, but … Clout Transfer