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
What’s on
The Ground Beneath Me – Laisul Hoque
Laisul Hoque, winner of Bow Arts’ East London Art Prize 2025, premieres a new installation, film, and works on paper, exploring microhistories and personal memory alongside the context of political shifts and turmoil in Bangladesh.
UCL East Artists & academics knowledge exchange labs: exploring migration, identities and cultural fluidity with Laisul Hoque and Yang Zou
UCL’s Cultural and Community Engagement team is collaborating with Bow Arts on a series of learning and networking events bringing together artists, researchers, and local communities. Participants will hear from a panel of speakers whose work touches on issues which relate to the themes of relocation, migration, memory, identities and cultural fluidity. The panel conversation will be followed by a Q&A and informal networking.
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.
