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
Camden Studios
Smaller, affordable artist studios in the heart of the city. Artists here benefit from amazing transport links and a newly-formed creative community.
What’s on
Nunnery Café Exhibition | Good Wives and Warriors
For our current Nunnery Café exhibition, we’re proud to present a showcase of work by Bow Road studio holders Good Wives and Warriors. To Take a Leaf out a Book will show the workings of their richly illustrated picture books, featuring their original hand painted illustrations and published books, which are full of mythical creatures, plants and animals.
Bow Skills workshop series: insurgent hormones: anticolonial eco-feminism & body autonomy
Artist Taey Iohe and reproductive justice scholar Rishita Nandagiri invite you to a playful, critical, and deeply embodied workshop series. Together, they ask: Can we refuse the hormonal scripts we’ve inherited—and invent our own? Across online sessions and an in-person playdate, we’ll explore hormone recipes, doula imaginaries, reproductive storytelling, and collective care.
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.
