The gallery is usually closed between exhibitions for install and deinstall, please check the exhibition dates below before visiting.
Past
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Mini Picture Show 2021
3 Dec 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Browse the artworks Free admission | No booking required | Open daily 11am-6pm Affordable works on a small scale by artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Contemporary watercolours and original prints, both framed and unframed, may be taken away immediately. This exhibition is... Read more -
Art Makes Art
23 - 28 Nov 2021 This autumn, Bankside Gallery and Eton College are bringing together a selection of works from Eton’s artists in residence in the exciting Art Makes Art exhibition. The works cover a variety of media ranging from painting, digital art and sculpture to relief, silkscreen and intaglio printmaking. Both figurative and abstract... Read more -
New Light Prize Exhibition
17 - 21 Nov 2021 Free admission | No booking required | Open daily 11am-6pm New Light was established in 2010 to celebrate and promote Northern art. This biennial Prize Exhibition is now one of the UK’s largest and most celebrated open exhibitions. New Light will be celebrating its tenth anniversary with a superb Prize... Read more -
International Original Print Exhibition 2021
4 - 14 Nov 2021 Browse the artworks Free admission | No booking required | Open daily 11am-6pm An exciting and eclectic range of works selected for this year's International Original Print Exhibition , an open submission exhibition established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers which celebrates the best in all forms of contemporary printmaking.... Read more
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RWS AUTUMN: Now & Then
1 - 31 Oct 2021 Browse the artworks Free admission | No booking required | Open daily 11am-6pm Have you ever visited a retrospective exhibition of a particular artist and been surprised at how their early works differ so greatly to the most recent pieces you're familiar with? Or maybe there has been a consistent... Read more -
SEPTEMBER SHOWCASE
3 - 26 Sep 2021 Browse September Showcase Artworks Browse Chelsea Physic Garden Artworks This exhibition features an array of original and affordable artworks by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Curate your ideal collection combining a variety of media and styles to complement your living... Read more -
CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN: A Year in the Life
12 - 30 Aug 2021 Browse Artworks Chelsea Physic Garden: A Year in the Life is an exhibition of works by selected artists of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) in response to and in celebration of Chelsea Physic Garden . At the start of 2020, Chelsea Physic Garden invited... Read more -
Summer at Bankside Gallery
18 Jun - 8 Aug 2021 The Bankside Summer exhibition features around 400 brilliant, original and affordable artworks by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Curate your ideal collection combining a variety of media and styles to complement your living space. This exhibition has ended - take... Read more
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RE ORIGINAL PRINTS 2021
28 Apr - 13 Jun 2021 Members of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers are at the forefront of contemporary printmaking. Their annual show always boasts an eclectic and diverse range of prints to inspire and excite, including a variety of printmaking techniques from traditional woodblock methods to digital printmaking. Read more -
THEY CAN'T CANCEL SPRING... Online
18 Mar - 27 Apr 2021 Just as the world shut down in March 2020, great British artist David Hockney released a bright and hopeful iPad drawing of flowering daffodils , and reminded us all 'they can't cancel the Spring.' It is with Hockney's heartening words in mind that the Royal Watercolour Society delivers this exhibition... Read more -
SPRING MINI PICTURE SHOW: Online
1 Feb - 17 Mar 2021 Starting an art collection? Looking to spruce up your home in time for Spring? Look no further than the Online Spring Mini Picture Show. This exhibition features an array of original, affordable unframed pieces on a small scale by contemporary painters and printmakers of the Royal Watercolour Society and the... Read more -
New Work by the RE: Printmakers In Lockdown
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers 6 Nov 2020 - 31 Jan 2021 Ever since Coronavirus put normal life on hold, we have all had to adapt to new ways of living and working. Many artists of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers have had no access to printing presses during this time, and therefore had to find new ways of producing their work.... Read more
