The gallery is usually closed between exhibitions for install and deinstall, please check the exhibition dates below before visiting.
Past
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Small but Mighty 2025
18 - 28 Sep 2025 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 2025
9 - 14 Sep 2025 New work from LOOP, an informal collective of artist- printmakers. LOOP has exhibited regularly at Bankside Gallery and is honoured that this 20th anniversary exhibition will be opened by Oona Grimes RA. Special features include artists demonstrating and sharing their print processes throughout the week, a performance by Fungai Marima... Read more -
Summer at Bankside Gallery 2025
15 Aug - 7 Sep 2025 Paintings and original prints from artists of the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers available to take away immediately on purchase. Browse the artworks Read more -
Tim Marlow Selects
Bankside Gallery 45th Anniversary Exhibition 31 Jul - 10 Aug 2025 To mark a significant anniversary of its time on London's Thames Riverside, Bankside Gallery is holding a celebratory exhibition of work by members of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), curated by Tim Marlow OBE; writer, broadcaster, art historian and current Director and CEO... Read more
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Quentin Blake: Ninety Drawings
2 - 27 Jul 2025 Quentin Blake returns to Bankside Gallery for the fourth consecutive year, bringing an eclectic mix of work in his new show, ‘Ninety Drawings’. Subjects range from emotive figures in watercolour landscapes (‘On the Beach’, 2020) to a whole flock of elegant birds created using children’s washable fibre-tip pens (‘Wading Birds’,... Read more -
Jackson’s Art Prize 2025
24 - 29 Jun 2025 Returning to Bankside Gallery for the third year, Jackson’s Art Prize presents a selection of the 2025 shortlisted and prize-winning artists in painting, drawing, and printmaking . After receiving over 12,000 submissions from 129 countries, this exhibition presents a snapshot of contemporary ideas from around the world. View all selected... Read more -
The Presidents
11 - 22 Jun 2025 To mark Bankside Gallery’s 45th anniversary we are celebrating the work of the Society Presidents, past and present, who have built upon the historic legacy of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) and helped mould the Societies into the highly regarded, forward facing body... Read more -
RE Original Prints 2025
2 May - 8 Jun 2025 The annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers at Bankside Gallery showcasing current work by the Society's members, who are amongst the UK's leading printmakers.This exhibition introduces our 11 new Associate Members elected earlier this year. Embracing both established and experimental techniques, the diversity of printmaking will be on... Read more
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RWS Spring 2025
28 Mar - 26 Apr 2025 The Royal Watercolour Society annual Spring exhibition, featuring works in waterbased media on paper. Read more -
RWS Open 2025
7 - 23 Mar 2025 Formerly known as the Contemporary Watercolour Competition (among many other names during the exhibition's 50+ year history), the RWS Open is one of the largest open-submission water-media exhibitions in the world, attracting thousands of submissions nationally and internationally each year. Successful applicants in the early stages of their art career... Read more -
The Broderers' Exhibition 2025: The Art of Embroidery
25 Feb - 2 Mar 2025 The Broderers’ Exhibition 2025: The Art of Embroidery is an open-submission art exhibition, organised by The Worshipful Company of Broderers; one of the ancient Livery Companies of the City of London. The exhibition promotes and celebrates embroidery as fine art. All selected art pieces show strong evidence of a high... Read more -
The Society of Wood Engravers
4 - 23 Feb 2025 The Society of Wood Engravers, founded in 1920 by artists including Eric Gill, Gwen Raverat, Robert Gibblings, Philip Hagreen and Lucien Pissarro, return to Bankside Gallery in 2025 for their annual exhibition. This year's featured artist is Howard Phipps. www.societyofwoodengravers.co.uk Read more
