Workshops for Teachers
Continuing Professional Development
Bow Arts provides inspiring workshops to equip teachers with new mediums, tools, and creative skills that can be applied immediately in the classroom, while aiming to reshape attitudes to what it means to work with art materials sustainably.
Our next programme of workshops will take place inside Shaftesbury Avenue across Winter 2024. Find out more and book your place below.
Coming Up at Shaftesbury Avenue
Bow Arts Educators’ Conference 2025: Teachers
Join us for a full day of presentations, workshops and discussions on reimagining what the art curriculum can be, and how teachers can consider and integrate diverse perspectives, approaches and art forms in the classroom. We will explore how to build a culturally rich and innovative art education together which is relevant and inclusive of the children and young people in our schools
Bow Arts Educators’ Conference 2025: Artists
Join us for two days of presentations, workshops and discussions on reimagining the role artists play in bringing diverse perspectives into the classroom, and new ways artist educators can enrich their personal and educational practice by integrating current and participatory approaches. We will explore how to build a culturally rich and innovative art education together which is relevant and inclusive of the children and young people in our schools.
Bow Arts Educators’ Conference 2025: Artists
Join us for two days of presentations, workshops and discussions on reimagining the role artists play in bringing diverse perspectives into the classroom, and new ways artist educators can enrich their personal and educational practice by integrating current and participatory approaches. We will explore how to build a culturally rich and innovative art education together which is relevant and inclusive of the children and young people in our schools.
Past Exhibitions
Exhibition Dates: Frieze Week Wed 9 – Sun 13 Oct, 10am-6pm
then Thurs-Sun, 12-6pm until 3 Nov
Exhibitions are free, and all are welcome – wheelchair access via lift inside.
Take a Seat
40 unique and sculptural artist-made chairs that mischievously merged the aesthetics of form and functionality, inviting audiences to both play and sit down across Shaftesbury’s vast open plan space.
Take A Seat was a collaboration between Bow Arts and curatorial duo ha.lf, (Haydn Albrow and Flora Bradwell). Several of the participating artists created their site-specific chairs at Shaftesbury as part of a residency, responding to the building by both assimilating and rejecting the ‘desolate’ office environment.
Absurd Visions
Absurd Visions saw mechanised sculpture, film and performance create a labyrinth of bizarre and technological discovery throughout Shaftesbury’s ex-offices.
Absurd Visions featured work from Rosie Gibbens’ Parabiosis series and Tim Spooner’s A New Kind of Animal which wove themselves into the office detritus left behind in the Shaftesbury building.
Parabiosis unpacked the pregnant body with sculptures that combine ‘puppets’ and machinery. The title referred to the surgical technique of joining two living organisms together to share a physiological system. Inspired by this process and theories about artificial robotic wombs, Gibbens created various ‘birthing’ contraptions.
Teachers in Residence at Shaftesbury Avenue
Bow Arts Learning are hosting an Artist Teacher Summer Residency at Shaftesbury Avenue. Seven teacher artists are honing their practice, and exploring how developing their work can positively translate into classroom arts-based learning.
Artist opportunities
Develop professionally
Along with offering affordable studio spaces, we also provide opportunities to help you to develop professionally, such as workshops, training sessions, peer crits, panel discussions and the sale of your art through Own Art.
What’s On at Bow Arts
Bow Arts works across London to provide affordable studios and access to the arts. Take a look at what’s going on in east London.
In the footsteps of the East London Group
Bow Arts is delighted to present an exhibition exploring the past and present of east London, bringing together…
Bow Skills workshop: exploring art psychotherapy and working with diverse needs in arts projects with Dr Lily Hsu
As artists work more closely with individuals with diverse needs, the question arises: how can we work in a manner that is creative, yet sensitive and safe? Join art psychotherapist Dr Lily Hsu for a reflective and interactive session diving into this question and its implications in our artistic practices.