What’s coming up?
Open to Ideas Programme
Open To Ideas is a programme at the Lakeside Centre to help encourage ways to live a more fulfilled life: focusing on wellbeing and connection.
Open To Ideas Workshop: Poetry with Purpose with Carys Hannah
Join artist Carys Hannah for a poetry workshop using mindfulness prompts, freewriting, and storytelling techniques to create your own poems.
See what’s next
Plan your visit to the Lakeside Centre, and see all of our upcoming events and exhibitions.
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 Project 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 the Lakeside Nursery delivering an innovative programme of workshops, projects and training.
