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
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.
Knitting the Air: The Exhibition
Knitting the Air presents a free exhibition exploring air pollution, place, and community made by 132 knitters from across Poplar, Bow and wider east London.
Bow Skills workshop: bid writing and arts fundraising with Kim Pearce – an Arts Council England special!
Join experienced arts fundraiser Kim Pearce in this Arts Council England (ACE) project grants special, as she demystifies the four investment principles, breaks down the application structure, and provides practical insights into how to build out a successful ACE bid. The workshop will end with a Q&A where you can put your burning questions to Kim about specific ideas or issues you’re coming up against!
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.
