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 2024
6 Dec 2024 - 26 Jan 2025 The annual exhibition by members of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers celebrating art on a small scale. All works are available to take away immediately on purchase. We are currently offering 10% off ALL remaining artworks in the Mini Picture Show.* *Offer ends Sunday 26 January.... Read more -
Designer Craft at Bankside
Society of Designer Craftsmen 20 Nov - 1 Dec 2024 Returning to Bankside Gallery for the second year, this group exhibition, this year titled 'Designer Craft at Bankside', embodies the imaginative thinking and highly skilled approaches of over 70 members of the Society of Designer Craftsmen, applied to new materials and contemporary technologies, across interdisciplinary craft and design specialisms. The... Read more -
International Original Print Exhibition 2024
7 - 17 Nov 2024 An open submission exhibition established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) celebrating the best of contemporary printmaking from across the globe. Works showcase the diversity of printmaking mediums and some exciting and innovative ways artists put these to use. This year's exhibition was selected by GILL SAUNDERS, Honorary Senior... Read more -
RWS Autumn 2024: 220 Years of the RWS
4 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 The Royal Watercolour Society had its beginnings in a coffee house on Oxford Street in November 1804. Today, almost 220 year later we're proud to say that the RWS is still championing water-based media and has over 75 active and exhibiting artist members. Read more
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Small But Mighty 2024
19 - 29 Sep 2024 Small But Mighty showcases all forms of printmaking and highlights the powerful, ambitious and impressive nature of works created on a small scale. This open submission exhibition, established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) aims to to create long-term opportunities for artists and promote printmaking to a wider audience.... Read more -
LOOP 2024
10 - 15 Sep 2024 New work from LOOP, an informal co-operative of artists with a background in original print. LOOP has shown regularly at Bankside Gallery. This year visitors will be able to drop in to meet their artists throughout the show, and see them demonstrating their printing processes in the gallery, as part... Read more -
Summer at Bankside Gallery 2024
9 Aug - 8 Sep 2024 Paintings and original prints from artists of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers available to take away immediately on purchase. Read more -
Jackson’s Art Prize 2024
30 Jul - 4 Aug 2024 Returning to Bankside Gallery for the second year, Jackson’s Art Prize presents a selection of the 2024 shortlist and prize-winners in painting, drawing, and printmaking. After receiving over 15,000 submissions from 117 countries, this exhibition presents a snapshot of contemporary ideas from around the world. View all selected artworks on... Read more
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Quentin Blake: Hand Drawn
10 - 28 Jul 2024 Quentin Blake returns to Bankside Gallery with an eclectic mix of works produced in a variety of media. Large pen & ink portraits of imaginary subjects (2024) sit alongside fantasy visions of Dream Owls and Remembered Faces (2019) worked in watercolour marker. Using his favourite china marker, Quentin explores everyday... Read more -
Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers
26 Jun - 6 Jul 2024 The annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers showcases over 500 miniature art works in a range of styles and techniques including paintings, drawings, sculpture, porcelain, carving, glass engraving and silversmithing. Many new and innovative ideas come forward each year, demonstrating how traditional craftsmanship continues... Read more -
Edward Hutchison and Jacqueline Duncan: Out of Earth & Water
12 - 23 Jun 2024 'Out of Earth & Water' is a conversation between artists Edward Hutchison and Jacqueline Duncan, born out of a shared admiration for each other’s work and mutual interest in the land and water. The exhibition focuses on the River Dart, its current and waves, its ebb and flow of tide... Read more -
Hilary Paynter: Moving Mountains
4 - 9 Jun 2024 This June, celebrated British wood engraver Hilary Paynter MBE PPRE Hon. RWS (b. 1943) presents Moving Mountains, a series of finely detailed print collages which will be shown alongside the illustrations she has created in close collaboration with poets and writers including Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Max Porter.... Read more
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RE Original Prints 2024
3 May - 2 Jun 2024 The annual exhibition by members of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) working across all printmaking techniques including etching, relief, screen and digital printmaking. Browse the artworks Read more -
RWS Spring 2024: Transparency
29 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 The Royal Watercolour Society annual Spring exhibition, featuring works in waterbased media on paper. This year's theme is 'Transparency'. 'Transparency is the defining trait that renders watercolour such a demanding medium. While some artists cherish this quality for its capacity to impart freshness and lightness, others consider it to be... Read more -
RWS Open 2024
8 - 24 Mar 2024 Formerly known as the Contemporary Watercolour Competition (among many other names during the exhibition's 50+ year history), the RWS Open is the largest open-submission water-media exhibition in the world, attracting thousands of submissions nationally and internationally each year. Browse the artworks Read more -
New Light Prize Exhibition
27 Feb - 3 Mar 2024 Browse the artworks Established in 2010, New Light celebrates and promotes Northern art, supporting both well-known and emerging artists by offering some of the region’s best awards and opportunities with the biennial New Light Prize Exhibition . The New Light Prize Exhibition 2023/24 will be touring to four Northern galleries... Read more
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The Society of Wood Engravers
6 - 25 Feb 2024 Browse a selection of the artworks The Society of Wood Engravers was founded in 1920 by artists including Eric Gill, Gwen Raverat, Robert Gibblings, Philip Hagreen and Lucien Pissarro. A break during the war years and then again in the 1970s meant that their annual exhibition ceased for a time;... Read more -
Mini Picture Show 2023
8 Dec 2023 - 1 Feb 2024 Browse the artworks 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. Read more
