Nunnery Gallery

Announcing the return of the East London Art Prize for a third edition! Bow Arts @bowarts is calling east London artists across all mediums to enter the open call. The prize celebrates and promotes the incredible talent and diversity of art made in the cultural hive of east London. Each cycle, the Prize supports a cohort of 12 artists, through exhibiting their work in our shortlist show at the Nunnery Gallery, career development support with a £1,000 grant for mentoring and training, and various paid opportunities through the prize’s event programme. From this cohort two further Prizes are awarded. The exhibition prize offers a cash prize of £15,000 and a solo exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery in east London. The residency prize offers a year’s studio space with Bow Arts. The judges for the East London Arts Prize are Brendan Cormier @brendanpcormier (V&A East); Marine Tanguy @marinetanguyart (Mtart Agency @mtartagency ); Alex Needham @alexneedham74 , (Guardian); Michelle Williams Gamaker @m.williams.gamaker , artist. Our partners supporting the East London Art Prize are British Council, Dulux, East Bank, The Line, London College of Fashion UAL, London Legacy Development Corporation, Own Art, UCL East, V&A East and Whitechapel Gallery. Deadline: Sunday 16th August Open to any artist living in the boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, City of London, Greenwich, Hackney, Havering, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Tower Hamlets & Waltham Forest. For terms and conditions and how to apply, and for updates, news, and information on the prize, follow the link in the bio @nunnerygallery . We are grateful to Minerva and Prue MacLeod for their support of the East London Art Prize. @duluxuk @thelinelondon @london.legacy @vameast @lcfculture @whitechapelgallery @britisharts @own.art @bowarts @nunnerygallery #eastlondonartprize #eastlondonartist #southeastlondonartist #bowarts #artistopportunity #artprize #artopps #opencall

🗣️Bow Arts (@bowarts ) and Mile End Community Project (MCP) @mcp_95 are delighted to announce a collaboration for the 2026 Bow Open exhibition coming up at the @nunnerygallery . For the first time in the Bow Open’s history – which has been running for over 25 years – Bow Arts will work with the young curators of our future to deliver a truly multi-perspective and dynamic show. The Bow Open platforms work from @bowarts ' community of over 900 artists, artist educators, designers and makers, the Bow Open can showcase all sorts of media, from painting and print to fashion, sculpture and installation. The Bow Open event programme, including chances to make, learn and discover alongside our artists, will run alongside the exhibition, also curated by young programmers from MCP. MCP members will make up a panel of curators and event programmers, who together will select the artists for exhibition and commission the accompanying event programme. 🗓️Save the dates: Private view: Thursday 4 June, 6-9pm Exhibition open: 5 June – 30 August 2026 📍Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ 🎟️Free 🕐 Weds to Sun, 10am – 4pm 📸 Image credits: Mile End Community Project, Cutting East Film Festival takeover at Genesis Cinema. #BowOpen #localcommunity #youngcurators

We’re proud to be part of Backyard Biennial: East, a free, 8-week festival in collaboration with @whitechapelgallery and 40+ local partners across East London (15 July - 6 September 2026). Join us for an exciting programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops and more, celebrating the histories, communities and creative practices that shape the East End. We are collaborating with East London Art Prize shortlisted artists Laisul Hoque @laisulhoque , Kuda Mushangi @kuda.mushangi and Lydia Newman @ladedum for exciting events including exhibitions, workshops, performances and walking tours! As part of the ‘East of the Aldgate Pump’ exhibition, Laisul will present ‘An Ode to All the Flavours’ (2024), an expanded storytelling and interactive installation inspired by his earliest memory of his father sharing his favourite childhood snack. On Sat 25 & Sun 26 July, Lydia will host two participatory workshops 'Tangle/Untangle' (2026) in collaboration with Jae Gibbs @our_living_tree as space-holder, using sand-filled tights as a shared material to create collective entanglement and explore how bodies carry, share and negotiate inherited and socially learned pressures. On Thurs 13 August, as part of Whitechapel Lates, Lydia will present ‘Sand Suit 4.0’ (2026), an embodied storytelling performance developed in dialogue with the workshops and her ongoing series ‘In the Wake of Ruin’. On Sat 15 August, Kuda will lead a walking tour of the Whitechapel area to explore how art has been integrated and woven into the history and architecture of Whitechapel and East London. Key sites will include House of Annetta, Whitechapel Gallery and Arnold Circus. These events are curated by Sandra Lam @lamwanyisandra in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery team. Read more via the link in our bio. Image 1: Lydia Newman. Photo by Jane Lam @lapchingphotos Image 2: Kuda Mushangi. Photo by Sandra Lam Image 3: Laisul Hoque. Photo by Rob Harris. #BackyardBiennial #EastEnd

In a time where prize culture focuses too much on the initial win with no to little follow through, we want to showcase how the East London Art Prize works differently, so we asked Exhibition Prize winner of the most recent cycle (2024-2026) @laisulhoque 'What's an element of the East London Art Prize you really valued?' He says "The mentorship fund that accompanied the Prize connected me with established practitioners, writers and thinkers whose work I greatly admire." Only 3 days until the open call goes live... #artprize #eastlondonartists #creativedevelopment

💭Are you and artist looking for support on your ACE application? Join visual artist and arts fundraising expert Daniel Regan (@danielreganphotography ) in this Arts Council England (ACE) project grants special, as they demystify the four investment principles, break down the application structure, and provide practical insights into how to build out a successful ACE bid! 🗓️Thursday 11th June, 6 - 8pm 📍Lakeside Centre, Bazalgette Way, SE2 9AN 🎟️£7 Standard, £5 Concession - tix on Bow Arts' website #BowSkills #ACEfunding #Artsfunding

🌟With two unforgettable cycles, 24 supported artists, 4 quality exhibitions and a multitude of enriching public programme events, your favourite East London Art Prize will soon be back...🌟 More info to come in 1 week! #eastlondonartprize #eastlondonartist #bowarts #artistopportunity #artopps #opencall

🩷💙 Exhibition Announcement 💙🩷 Can finally reveal the official dates for our exhibition this coming September the @nunnerygallery . From the 4th to the 20th of September our knitted data (all 13 metres of it) will be on display for all to see! So mark the dates in your diaries and please share this post with anyone you think might interested. All are welcome. Check our new website (link in bio) for more information and stay tuned for more announcements - including details about our free public programme of workshops and events. And yes there will be opportunities to knit more air quality data! 📆 4 - 20 September 2026 Tuesday to Sunday 🕣 10 am - 4 pm 📍The Nunnery Gallery 🎟️ FREE Huge thank you to @studio.thirty.one for taking gorgeous photos of our knitting and @hellojesspanu for designing our posters and flyers. And if you know a local school or organisation who might in interested in a special visit, please put them in touch with us! #knittingtheair #airpollution #airquality #london #knitting

Roughly one month to go until this year’s Bow Open! In advance of 2026’s Bow Open, have a look at these images from the past 10 years of Bow Arts’ annual exhibition: 1. 2015, STRUCTURE TEXTURE FUTURE 2. 2016 3. 2017 | image credit Rob Harris 4. 2018 Invitation to Rave from Mark Titchner | image credit Alberto Romano 5. 2019 | image credit Alberto Romano 6. 2021 | image credit Alberto Romano 7. 2022 | image credit Jonathan Basset 8. 2023 Bring Your Light | image credit Jonathan Basset 9. 2024 A Personal Treasure | image credit Rob Harris 10. 2025 Connections | image credit Rob Harris @albertoromano_ph @jonathanbassettphotography #BowOpen #Exhibition #NunneryGallery #London

🗣️NUNNERY GALLERY VOLUNTEER CALL OUT! Are you 18 or over, wanting to gain experience of working in a gallery? We are looking for up to 15 volunteers for our next exhibition 'Bow Open'. The role will at its core involve, welcoming visitors to the gallery, talking to them about the artworks/exhibition and gallery space, as well as collecting feedback and tallies for our evaluation processes. #nunnerygallery is @bowarts free exhibition space where artists can experiment, collaborate and try out new ideas. We want to challenge who people expect to inhabit a gallery space. We are home of the East London Art Prize. 🗓️ APPLY NOW via the link in our bio. The deadline is May 15th. 🌟We look forward to hearing from you 💭Ask us any questions in the comments below and we'll get back to you! #volunteer #londongallery

📣Join Claudia Kennaugh from Art & People as she demystifies how to price your artworks confidently and consistently, with the opportunity to get practical, personalised pricing advice and feedback in the Q&A session. Attendees are encouraged to bring along 1-2 examples of their work to the session that they can speak to, either physically or digitally. 📍Bow Arts' Courtyard Room, Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ. 🎟️ Standard: £7, Concession £5 - purchase through Bow Arts' website #BowSkills #londonart

🌍 Shouldn't Earth day be everyday? On one of the many days we appreciate the Earth, we'd like to spotlight #EastLondonArtPrize artist @molangmuir Mo Langmuir is a multi-disciplinary practitioner using social art to explore being human on a shared planet. Informed by a background in environmental biology, her practice responds to the so-called Enlightenment, a time when Western thinking separated humans from nature, art from science and the body from the mind. Last October Mo ran a workshop @vam_east in partnership with @bowarts for young people to reflect on climate change using archival material from the V&A archive, as well as our own environmental nostalgia. We created cyanotype collages to convey these reflections which Mo then integrated into a parachute for her project Mapping Interconnectedness (2024)🌊. As well as being a runner-up for #ELAP in this last cycle, Mo has has won support from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Arts Council England, Climate Art, DEFRA, Makerversity, Near Now, University of Nottingham and The Institute for Art and Innovation, + a long list of collaborative work. 📸 Deacon Lui, @lsb.co #YouthWorkshop #EarthDay #ClimateCrisis #ClimateArt

Thank you to all who came to @ucl exchange labs for an insightful discussion on migration, identities and cultural fluidity with @laisulhoque @vincent_hasselbach and @zzumbrella last Thursday! Thank you to @ucl for letting us hold the talk in such a beautiful space and to @lamwanyisandra for curating the event. 📸 @dennisngan #academicsexhange #ucl #eastlondonartprize