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
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.
Bow Skills workshop: listening and sound meditation as a research method for artistic creations with Dr. Hoi Shan Anson Mak
Usually, we rely heavily on looking to understand a place or its inhabitants; what about listening? How does listening help create visual art? Join moving image and sound artist and Oxford Mindfulness Foundation trained mindfulness teacher Dr. Hoi Shan Anson Mak for a reflective and interactive session using listening and sound meditation as a research method for artistic creations.
Teacher CPD: Limitless Leaves with Julie Vermeille
Take this opportunity to learn bookbinding techniques and make your own sketchbook with artist educator Julie Vermeille.
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.
