nunnery gallery

Dedicated to the work of 15 local schools, this annual exhibition provides a rare opportunity to share some of the exceptional artwork being produced by local young people working with professional artists and performers.

An exhibition about the complexity of dependencies and forces in a modern globalised society.

DOUBLEUSE brings together contemporary practitioners who continue to draw on painting as a useful and functioning context, despite and because of its inherited difficulties. The linguistic term ‘double use’ offers an analogy for painting that attempts to hold mutually contradictory positions.

An Exhibition of Photography by residents of Poplar to celebrate Poplar HARCA’s 10th anniversary.

An exhibition of Contemporary Art produced by Young People for the Nunnery Gallery

In the work of the three artists, Rowena Dring, Ute Lindner and Kei Takemura, presence and absence are in a relationship of close interaction.

Photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne were artists-in-residence together for one year at Harefield Hospital, one of the world’s leading centres for heart and lung transplants. Working closely together, they photographed and recorded patients, the devices they’re attached to or have implanted in them, and the hospital itself.

This year’s annual Bow Arts Trust exhibition, has been selected by curator Myriam Blundell. The show, entitled ‘Unnatural Histories’, features the work of eighteen artists picked from amongst over one hundred members of the Bow Arts Trust,

Working with 23 professional artists and performers, this exhibition is a celebration of the artwork made by young people in over 20 local schools in Tower Hamlets & Poplar

Is physical reality becoming redundant? Both contemporary art and science are challenging the concept of reality and opening up areas of investigation from micro to macrocosm.

‘Tears of Eros’ is an exhibition of the work of critically acclaimed Chinese photographer Tian Taiquan.

The paintings, drawings, watercolours, videos and sculptures of Nschotschi Haslinger, Christof Mascher and E. S. Mayorga deal with existence as a kind of problematic dream for the self.