nunnery gallery

Bow Arts Trust hosted a workshop exploring the histories of socially-engaged practice in the art gallery, organised by researchers-in-residence Emily Fuggle and Dr Elysia Lechelt.

For our current Nunnery Café exhibition, we are proud to present a showcase of work by artist jdwoof. jdwoof is a local self-taught artist based at our Old Manor Park Library studio site.

Join us at the Nunnery Gallery to celebrate the opening of the 2026 Bow Open x Mile End Community Project, presenting ‘to belong’.

‘Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials’ will for the first time bring together works from Hunjan’s rich and various career to date, spanning over 40 years of practice.

The Bow Open platforms work from Bow Arts artists, showing new and innovative work selected by a different guest curator each year. This year the Nunnery Gallery is working with young curators from Mile End Community Project (MCP) to deliver a truly multi-perspective and dynamic show. 

The Nunnery Gallery are pleased to host ‘Between Acts’, Middlesex University’s Fine Art BA and MA interim show.

The Nunnery Gallery are pleased to host A Conversation Within the Mirror, the first solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Negin Kianpour.

Join us at the Nunnery Cafe to celebrate the opening of the Sofia Niazi’s Café Exhibition ‘Unoriginal’.

For our current Nunnery Café exhibition, we are proud to present a showcase of work by artist and print technician Sofia Niazi. Niazi co-runs Rabbits Road Press, a community Risograph print studio and publishing press based at our Manor Park Library studio site.

Laisul Hoque, exhibition winner of Bow Arts’ East London Art Prize 2025, premiered a new installation, film, and works on paper, exploring microhistories and personal memory alongside the context of political shifts and turmoil in Bangladesh.

Visions in the Nunnery is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art, selected from an international open call. 

Visions in the Nunnery is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art, selected from an international open call.