What’s going on?
Lakeside Garden Club
Grow, nurture, and create in our garden this Summer. Come along to our fortnightly garden club, a free space to socialise. Get involved in community growing and share skills in ceramics, cooking, mosaic making, and drawing from the garden.
Artist spotlight
What does it mean to be a Bow Arts Artist?
Gary Drostle
Meet Gary Drostle, studio holder at our iconic brutalist Lakeside Centre in Thamesmead.
Artist Spotlight: Adelaide Damoah
Adelaide Damoah is a painter and performance artist at the Lakeside Centre whose work explores the themes of colonialism, spirituality and feminism.
Artist opportunities
Develop professionally
The Lakeside Centre offers many opportunities to share your work and foster creativity in the local community through workshops, exhibitions, film screenings and much more. We offer more than just a studio space. We provide opportunities to help you to develop professionally, through workshops, training sessions, peer crits, panel discussions and the sale of your art through Own Art.
Visit our gallery
Lakeside Centre Media Space
In our rooftop project space, we hold workshops, exhibitions, film screenings as well as residencies throughout the year.
Venue Hire
Need a space for your workshop, class or exhibition? Hire our spaces at the Lakeside Centre.
Around the area…
We are proud to work locally with Harris Garrard Academy, Willow Bank Primary School and YMCA’s Lakeside Nursery delivering an innovative programme of workshops, projects and training.
