Since the 1990s, Bow Arts have nurtured London’s diverse creativity and talent. In 2025, we are celebrating 30 years of creating opportunities to work and learn, championing affordable live & work spaces and creativity within our local communities.
What we do
Our studios connect artists with local communities, where they can meet other creatives and develop professionally. We give communities greater access to and interaction with the arts, through our learning programme, workshops, exhibitions and events.
Featured studios
Bow Road B2-3
Second floor studio available at the historic Bow Road studios in east London. Suited especially well to painters, drawers and print makers.
What’s on
Bowfest: Open Studios
Get ready for Bow Arts’ biggest event of the summer! Meet our community of over 100 talented artists working at our flagship site, Bow Road.
Nunnery Café Exhibition | jdwoof
For our current Nunnery Café exhibition, we are proud to present a showcase of work by artist jdwoof. jdwoof is a local self-taught artist based at our Old Manor Park Library studio site.
Bow Open x Mile End Community Project presents ‘to belong’
The Bow Open platforms work from Bow Arts artists, showing new and innovative work selected by a different guest curator each year. This year the Nunnery Gallery is working with young curators from Mile End Community Project (MCP) to deliver a truly multi-perspective and dynamic show.
Schools, colleges and early years
We work with local, inspiring artists to deliver an innovative programme of learning through workshops, projects and training in schools.
Artist spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Sophia Daly Rossin
Bow Arts hears from Ice House Court sculptor, prop maker, and all-round creative maker Sophia Daly Rossin about new technologies, space to sculpt, and the influence of mythology on her work.
Visit our flagship gallery
Nunnery Gallery
The Nunnery Gallery is our not-for-profit, free, contemporary art space, situated in a former, nineteenth-century convent. It hosts thought-provoking exhibitions and events, including the internationally acclaimed, biennial, moving image show Visions, our annual Bow Open, showcasing our studio artists’ work, and our locally inspired Raw Materials.
