Bow Arts’ annual Bow Open Show showcases the talent and diversity of art being made across our artist network, from our studios and spaces, as well as by our artist educators. This year’s curator is visual artist Lindsey Mendick, who has invited submissions with her provocation “A Personal Treasure”.
Drawing upon the centrality of love to her practice and her Hindu and Christian background, join multidisciplinary artist Cora Sehgal Cuthbert to make a mini, portable shrine as a means of loving and extending care to the world around us and ourselves.
An afterhours chance to explore the exhibition, alongside two exclusive live performances by exhibiting artists Sadegh Aleahmad and Harriet Richardson.
Drawing inspiration from the longstanding traditions of mask-making and masquerade in the Caribbean and Nepal, join artist Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell to create masks which embody folkloric storytelling and honouring nature through ritual.
Grounded in ideas around universal languages, dream states, and the deep memories that objects hold, join multi-disciplinary artist Haydn Albrow as we build our own clay vessels to act as carriers and homes for our dreams.
Join artist and curator Parwana Haydar in a conversation about artist peer support groups and explore what it means to be a diaspora practitioner and the difference between identity politics and diaspora belonging.
Who lived here before us and what does writing about their lives reveal about us? Taking inspiration from a walk in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, join artist Sheyamali Sudesh as we use writing and mixed media to root storytelling in our own history, local ecology and that of historical people from East London
Come along to the next session in our Life Drawing in the Nunnery series, hosted by Thamesmead Life Drawing’s Jamie Zubairi. All levels of experience are welcome!
Hear from arts collective and platform Baesianz on the foundations of creative community building through an anti-capitalist lens and how to nurture a collective ethos in an organic and sustainable way that’s in alignment with your core values.
Over 30 artist studios will be open to the public for Bow Arts’ upcoming Open Studios at the...
How can eco-literacy and ecological grief be used to resist patterns of planetary extraction through our artwork? What is the role of meaningful ecological artistic practice in challenging how we consume, experience, and engage with art? Join artist and researcher Youngsook Choi in a reflective session diving into these questions and their implications for our practices and the wider arts ecosystem.
Bow Arts is delighted to present an exhibition exploring the past and present of east London, bringing together...
